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Raymond R & Martha G Wernig Foundation C/O Stephanie Wernig
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of RAYMOND R & MARTHA G WERNIG FOUNDATION C/O STEPHANIE WERNIG’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| GUADALUPE CENTER | $30,000 |
| AGAPE MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| STAN HYWET GARDENS | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN NEUMANN HS | $7,500 |
| VALLEY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| HOLY ROSARY | $4,500 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA PENDLETON | $4,500 |
| EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CTR | $3,500 |
| THE CITY MISSION | $3,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT | $2,000 |
| OAK CLINIC | $2,000 |
| GRACE HOUSE | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GCGuadalupe Center Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $106k · revenue +2%
- TOTHE OAK CLINIC5× · 2019–2024 · $37k · revenue +41%
- MVMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SVST VINCENT PARISH SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GHGRACE HOUSE AKRON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…
To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
To promote, support and further the interests and purposes of the arc of the united states, inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stewart's Caring Place Inc and Subsidiary and the most unlike its peers is The Lion Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Lion Project ↗
- Who funds THE OAK CLINIC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent Parish Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON ↗
- Who funds THE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DESTINY TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Firstenergy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Raymond R & Martha G Wernig Foundation C/O Stephanie Wernig funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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