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Talmage Family Foundation Ralph Talmage

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$416k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$182k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Education$1.9MHousing & Shelter$186kHuman Services$146kInternational$56kScience & Tech$30kArts & Culture$10kHealth$6kOther$839k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $232k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEILDELBURG UNIVERSITY$182,000
FIRST COMMUNITY CHURCH$50,000
FURNITURE BANK$40,000
MID-OHIO FOODBANK$25,000
BACK BAY MISSION$25,000
NNEMAP INC$25,000
THE TANDANA FOUNDATION$20,000
THE OPEN SHELTER$20,000
RED CROSS$10,000
UNITED WAY$10,000
WORLD NEIGHBORS$5,000
FINCA$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
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 (FY17–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CARING AND SERVING TOGETHER (CAST): $25k → 13%CARING AND SERVING TOGETHER (CAST): $20k → 13%NNEMAP INC: $25k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $20k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $20k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $20k → 15%CREATIVE LIVING INC: $3k → 15%CREATIVE LIVING INC: $3k → 15%CREATIVE LIVING INC: $3k → 15%CREATIVE LIVING INC: $3k → 15%CREATIVE LIVING INC: $3k → 15%CREATIVE LIVING INC: $3k → 15%NNEMAP: $1k → 15%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 21 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$3.2M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+118%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • HU
    Heidelberg University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +2%
  • TT
    THE TANDANA FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +105%
  • MF
    Mid-Ohio Foodbank
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • CF
    COLUMBUS FOUNDATION DOMINICAN FUND 38
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • TL
    THE LIBERTY AVIATION MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +51%
  • OF
    OOGEEP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $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
Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy

To conduct research and educational programs on affordable energy policies, to advocate on behalf of affordable energy policies, and to implement and manage energy efficiency and related programs.

Human Services
2
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

3
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
4
Vision Usa - the Ohio Vision Project Inc
Health
5
Produce Perks Midwest Inc

To improve the health of under-served communities by increasing affordable access to healthy food.

6
Luther Home of Mercy

Luther home of mercy (lhm) is a ministry enriching lives and individual abilities, serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Human Services
7
The Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County

Facilitate and invest in developments designed to: create and preserve affordable homeownership and rental housing; strengthen and stabilize neighborhoods; support working households, seniors and special needs populations.

Housing & Shelter
8
Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…

Health
9
Ohio Living Quaker Heights

To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.

10
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

11
Ohio Life Sciences Association

Align the life sciences ecosystem in the state of ohio, building collaborative partnerships, and advocating for policies and funding that will help to accelerate life science priorities and drive sustainable economic growth.

Community Improvement
12
Ohio Living Communities

See schedule oohio living communities was founded in 1922 and was incorporated as an ohio non-profit corporation in 1959. the corporation's mission statement is as follows:our mission is to provide older adults with caring and quality…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nnemap Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Liberty Aviation Museum Inc. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
16/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Heidelberg University — $1,668,200 · EducationHeidelberg UniversityTHE TANDANA FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 · EducationTHE TANDANA FOUNDATION INCGrandview Heights Marble Cliff Education Foundation — $90,000 · EducationTHE FIRST COMMUNITY CHURCH — $215,000 · OtherTHE FIRST COMMUNITY CHURCHFURNITURE BANK — $160,000 · OtherFURNITURE BANKMid-Ohio Foodbank — $145,000 · OtherMid-Ohio FoodbankRED CROSS — $125,000 · OtherRED CROSSUNITED WAY — $80,000 · OtherUNITED WAYPRADER WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF OHIO — $40,000 · Other+7 more — $74,000 · Other+7 moreBACK BAY MISSION — $130,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE OPEN SHELTER INC — $56,000 · Housing & ShelterNNEMAP INC — $86,000 · Human ServicesCaring and Serving Together - CAST — $45,000 · Human ServicesCREATIVE LIVING INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesWORLD NEIGHBORS INC — $45,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $11,000 · InternationalOHIO NATURAL ENERGY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Science & TechTHE LIBERTY AVIATION MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Health
Education$1,933,200Other$839,000Housing & Shelter$186,000Human Services$146,000International$56,000Science & Tech$30,000Arts & Culture$10,000Health$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHeidelberg University — $1,668,200 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TANDANA FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $145,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBACK BAY MISSION — $130,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetGrandview Heights Marble Cliff Education Foundation — $90,000 over 5y, 53% of budgetNNEMAP INC — $86,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE OPEN SHELTER INC — $56,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetWORLD NEIGHBORS INC — $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCaring and Serving Together - CAST — $45,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPRADER WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF OHIO — $40,000 over 6y, 56% of budgetOHIO NATURAL ENERGY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetCREATIVE LIVING INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBERTY AVIATION MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE — $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA) — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds Heidelberg University
  • Who funds THE TANDANA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank
  • Who funds BACK BAY MISSION
  • Who funds Grandview Heights Marble Cliff Education Foundation
  • Who funds NNEMAP INC
  • Who funds THE OPEN SHELTER INC
  • Who funds WORLD NEIGHBORS INC
  • Who funds Caring and Serving Together - CAST
  • Who funds PRADER WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF OHIO
  • Who funds OHIO NATURAL ENERGY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CREATIVE LIVING INC
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds THE LIBERTY AVIATION MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE
  • Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA)

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.

Columbus FoundationOH17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Talmage Family Foundation Ralph Talmage 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 46%
  • World Neighbors Inc46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Talmage Family Foundation Ralph Talmage?

Find your warmest path to Talmage Family Foundation Ralph Talmage 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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