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Rettig Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SALVATION ARMY$50,000
MARINA CORPS LAW ENFORCEMENT$50,000
STEPHEN SILVER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$50,000
WRANGELL - ST ELIAS NATIONAL PARK$42,000
MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES$40,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
WYOMING RECREATION FOUNDATION$25,000
WALSH RESEARCH INSTITUTE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HART - HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM OF CINCINNATI$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CA
MO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Friends Humane Society; 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.
04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rettig Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rettig Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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