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Rettig Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2020
47
Grants FY2020
12
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Animals$472kFood & Nutrition$297kEnvironment$124kHuman Services$65kEducation$61kCrime & Legal$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kHealth$25kOther$0
02FY2020 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k19 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $356k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $618k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREE STORE FOOD BANK$175,000
JOSEPH'S LEGACY$100,000
FRIENDS OF CAMPBELL COUNTY TENNESSEE ANIMALS (FCCA)$75,000
GORMAN HERITAGE FARM (GHF)$60,000
ARC OF APPALACHIA$58,000
STEPHEN SILVER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$50,000
MARINA CORPS LAW ENFORCEMENT$50,000
SALVATION ARMY$50,000
WRANGELL - ST ELIAS NATIONAL PARK$42,000
MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES$40,000
WALSH RESEARCH INSTITUTE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
WYOMING RECREATION FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HART - HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM OF CINCINNATI$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REFUGEE RESPONSE: $15k → 17%GREATER CINCINANTI HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$483k · 16 repeat orgs$810k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$483k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+190%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $734k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • JL
    JOSEPHS LEGACY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $120k · revenue +17% · 50% of their budget
  • FO
    Friends of Campbell County Tennessee Animals
    3× · 2017–2020 · $99k · revenue +341%
  • TL
    TRI LAKES HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • BJ
    BOULDER JUNCTION FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • PROJECT K9 HEROgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +190%
  • U
    USO
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Freedom Tails Ohio

Animal Rescue

Animals
2
Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu
Animals
3
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
4
Bessies Creek Farm Animal Sanctuary & Rescue

Bessies Creek Farm Animal Sanctuary & Rescue is a non profit animal rescue and sanctuary.

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5
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
6
Raskels Rescue
Animals
7
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
8
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
9
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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10
Sunset Farms Sanctuary

We provide shelter food and vet care for abandoned abused and neglected animals

Animals
11
War Angel Farms Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc
Animals
12
Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Friends Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Walsh Research Institute. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Pantries & AssistanceVeteran Support ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Animal Rescue and Adoption
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%38%10–20yr14%32%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr20%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%37%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr16%5%35–55yr20%31%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/35
the rest of the field
11%
8,036/74,271

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $66,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGORMAN HERITAGE FARM (GHF) — $60,000 · OtherGORMAN HERITAGE FARM (GHF)MARINA CORPS LAW ENFORCEMENT — $50,000 · OtherMARINA CORPS LAW ENFORCEMENTSALVATION ARMY — $50,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYWRANGELL - ST ELIAS NATIONAL PARK — $42,000 · OtherWRANGELL - ST ELIAS NATIONAL PARKBOULDER JUNCTION FIRE DEPARTMENT — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherWALSH RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Other+23 more — $159,000 · Other+23 moreJOSEPHS LEGACY — $120,000 · AnimalsJOSEPHS LEGACYFriends of Campbell County Tennessee Animals — $99,000 · AnimalsFriends of Campbell County Tennesse…HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM — $50,000 · AnimalsHOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAMLAST CHANCE CORRAL — $25,000 · AnimalsLAST CHANCE CORRALPROJECT K9 HERO — $15,000 · AnimalsANIMAL FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY — $15,000 · AnimalsTRI LAKES HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · AnimalsFIGHTING CHANCE RESCUE — $15,000 · Animals+11 more — $61,600 · Animals+11 moreFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $175,000 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODB…ARC OF APPALACHIA — $58,000 · Recreation & SportsWyoming Community Foundation — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $61,000 · EducationSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EnvironmentCIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $15,000 · EnvironmentGORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EnvironmentMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $40,000 · International
Other$502,000Animals$415,600Food & Nutrition$175,000Recreation & Sports$83,000Education$61,000Environment$41,000International$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $175,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOSEPHS LEGACY — $120,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetFriends of Campbell County Tennessee Animals — $99,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $61,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARC OF APPALACHIA — $58,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM — $50,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALSH RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWyoming Community Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLAST CHANCE CORRAL — $25,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRI LAKES HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFIGHTING CHANCE RESCUE — $15,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE BAY VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLeague for Animal Welfare — $13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeepers of the Wild — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOAH'S LOST ARK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAnimals' Angels Incorporated — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG FLUFFY DOG RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC — $2,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationElsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Johnson Charitable Gi…Celanese FoundationSynchrony FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Baird Foundation IncNetwork for GoodThe Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH25.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Celanese Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Rettig Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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