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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.

$244k
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$496kFood & Nutrition$161kPhilanthropy$119kHuman Services$91kHealth$66kArts & Culture$53kReligion$42kCrime & Legal$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $179k
$600
Median grant
17
States reached
$906k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHANTZ MAKERSPACE$48,726
JOYFULCAFE$37,759
INCLUDEABILITY$34,060
GUARDIAN GROUP$26,288
NORWAYNE SCHOOLS$12,628
DAYBREAK COMMUNITY CHURCH$10,000
UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO$10,000
AAC INSTITUTE$7,216
THE COUNSELING CENTER$7,000
GHANA BEYOND SUBSISTENCE$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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 11%FIELD OF DREAMS: $200 → 14%GIRLS WITH SOLE: $1k → 17%INCLUDEABILITY: $34k → 10%CRESTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CLUB: $2k → 10%CRESTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CLUB: $1k → 10%CRESTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CLUB: $1k → 10%CRESTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CLUB: $1k → 10%FORGET-ME-NOT BASKETS: $4k → 10%FORGET-ME-NOT BASKETS: $1k → 10%ONE EIGHTY: $100 → 10%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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$934k · 63 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
61

Total granted

$934k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+40%

Still filing today

43%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +50%
  • AC
    APPLE CREEK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +140%
  • WC
    WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    2× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GLX FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • EC
    ERIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $14k
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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
2
Watttime Corporation

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.

Science & Tech
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
West Creek Conservancy

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…

Environment
5
American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit
6
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
7
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
8
The Alliance for Just Deliberation On Solar Geoengineering Inc

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…

Environment
9
American Gas Association

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…

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10
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
11
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
12
World Resources Institute

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohuddle Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 156 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/64
Grantees still filing
43/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORWAYNE SCHOOLS: $222,656 · OtherNORWAYNE SCHOOLSJOYFULCAFE: $155,544 · OtherJOYFULCAFEWOOSTER HOPE CENTER: $40,020 · OtherWOOSTER HOPE CENTERTHE GLX FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherDAYBREAK COMMUNITY CHURCH: $26,000 · OtherGUARDIAN GROUP: $26,601 · Other+116 more: $222,500 · Other+116 moreSCHANTZ MAKERSPACE INC: $116,226 · EducationSCHANTZ MAKERSPACE I…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100,980 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE…+7 more: $4,393 · EducationWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $51,611 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO: $30,551 · PhilanthropyAPPLE CREEK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $19,805 · Arts & CultureWAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $16,200 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $11,640 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $2,763 · Arts & CultureIncludeability: $34,060 · Human ServicesForget Me Not Baskets Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCreston Community Service Club: $4,871 · Human Services+4 more: $2,400 · Human ServicesAAC INSTITUTE FKA INTERNATIONAL: $15,809 · HealthOHIO CRIPPLED CHILDRENS FUND: $13,300 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,595 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,215 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $1,500 · Health+3 more: $1,195 · HealthFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $35,000 · Community Improvement
Other$723,321Education$221,599Philanthropy$82,162Arts & Culture$50,408Human Services$46,331Health$37,614Community Improvement$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCHANTZ MAKERSPACE INC: $116,226 over 5y, 22% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100,980 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $51,611 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIncludeability: $34,060 over 1y, 33% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO: $30,551 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGUARDIAN GROUP: $26,601 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAPPLE CREEK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $19,805 over 5y, 16% of budgetWAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $16,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAAC INSTITUTE FKA INTERNATIONAL: $15,809 over 4y, 15% of budgetOHIO CRIPPLED CHILDRENS FUND: $13,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $11,640 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN MEDICAL OUTREACH INC: $8,768 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGHANA BEYOND SUBSISTENCE: $7,531 over 3y, 12% of budgetOHUDDLE INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $5,699 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetForget Me Not Baskets Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCreston Community Service Club: $4,871 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,595 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $3,493 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,215 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROLLING RASCALS: $2,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,904 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,903 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN ENERGY OHIO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,480 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirls With Sole: $1,100 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBethel Agricultural Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $890 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $803 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS OF WAYNE COUNTY: $687 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $669 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $538 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $536 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDTCare: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALONE UNIVERSITY: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $265 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUNNING2BWELL: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $203 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Wayne County Communit…Donald & Alice Noble …Ralph R and Grace B J…The Westfield Insuran…Charles W & Laura B F…Seaman Family Foundat…Wooster Elks Lodge No…Akron Community Found…United Way of Wayne a…Christ FoundationBurton D Morgan Found…Stark Community Found…
Wayne County Community FoundationOH46.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Romich Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Romich Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Romich Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Romich Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 156 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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