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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.8MInternational$246kFood & Nutrition$231kHuman Services$227kReligion$216kHousing & Shelter$186kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kPhilanthropy$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
UNITED WAY$10,000
RED CROSS$10,000
WORLD NEIGHBORS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
FINCA$2,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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

MA
OH
MD
AZ
DC
OK
MS
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nnemap Inc; 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 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. 17 of the 26 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetCaring and Serving Together - CAST: $45,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetWORLD NEIGHBORS INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% 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
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 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 Caring and Serving Together - CAST ↗
  • Who funds WORLD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • 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) ↗

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • World Neighbors Inc: 46% 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, 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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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