· Private foundation
The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of THE ALBERT G & OLIVE H SCHLINK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $672k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $607k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISHER TITUS FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $80,000 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| FIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $69,750 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $65,000 |
| THE SIGHT CENTER OF NW OHIO | $57,502 |
| HURON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| SANDUSKY STATE THEATER | $42,520 |
| Individual grant recipient | $42,472 |
| SANDUSKY AREA MARITIME MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK | $30,000 |
| NORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $25,000 |
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, $849k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
- FFFISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +64%
- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND6× · 2017–2023 · $275k · revenue +26%
- FHFIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- SPST PAUL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $60k
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OREGONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- TSTHE SENIOR CENTER OF NW OHIOone grant, 2019 · $42k
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.
Promote huron county, ohio business
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
Supporting the work of and advocating on behalf of all county land reutilization corporations, commonly known as land banks, across ohio. with 61 of ohios 88 counties having land banks, a clear need has emerged for a statewide association…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
The lorain county historical society collects, preserves, and shares the history of lorain county, ohio to educate and inspire present and future generations.
Strengthen industrial operations in huron county, ohio
To inspire people to embrace their callings in creation and community by connecting people with nature and faith.
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.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Firelands Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Norwalk Area Food Bank. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 107 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 FISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds STEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds HURON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLAT ROCK HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY JR SAILORS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS OPEN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HURON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE 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: The Mylander Fdn-2001 · The Twenty First Century Foundation · The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation · Geotrac Charitable Foundation · Sidney Frohman Foundation · Erie County Community Foundation · John F & Doris E Ernsthausen Foundation · Randolph J and Estelle M Dorn Foundation · The Gerard and Patricia Hipp Family Foundation · Sam S Stein and Rose Stein Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Premier Bank 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 The Albert G & Olive H Schlink 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.
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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