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Romich Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHANTZ MAKERSPACE | $48,726 |
| JOYFULCAFE | $37,759 |
| INCLUDEABILITY | $34,060 |
| GUARDIAN GROUP | $26,288 |
| NORWAYNE SCHOOLS | $12,628 |
| UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO | $10,000 |
| DAYBREAK COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| AAC INSTITUTE | $7,216 |
| GHANA BEYOND SUBSISTENCE | $7,000 |
| THE COUNSELING CENTER | $7,000 |
| NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME | $5,000 |
| WOOSTER COMMUNITY GARDENS | $3,000 |
| TRIWAY LOCAL SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| GREEN LOCAL SCHOOLS | $1,920 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,611 |
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 (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
63 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 27 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +50%- ACAPPLE CREEK HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +140%
- WCWAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS2× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TGTHE GLX FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k
- ECERIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $14k
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
The alliance for just deliberation on solar geoengineering (dsg) is a charitable, scientific and educational organization dedicated to building just and inclusive deliberation about research and potential use of solar geoengineering. solar…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohuddle Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Rolling Rascals. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 156 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 SCHANTZ MAKERSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Includeability ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN GROUP ↗
- Who funds APPLE CREEK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds AAC INSTITUTE FKA INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds OHIO CRIPPLED CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN MEDICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds GHANA BEYOND SUBSISTENCE ↗
- Who funds OHUDDLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds Forget Me Not Baskets Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Creston Community Service Club ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION 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: Wayne County Community Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Charles W & Laura B Frick Irr · Seaman Family Foundation Trust · Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Charitable Fund · Akron Community Foundation · United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co · Christ Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Stark Community 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 Romich 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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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