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The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation at a glance

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The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.7MEducation$1.4MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$864kPublic Safety & Disaster$564kReligion$441kFood & Nutrition$383kAnimals$354kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $672k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $607k
$15,486
Median grant
6
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$50,000
SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
HURON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$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 CITY SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT FUND$25,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $30k → 16%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $30k → 16%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 8%PROJECT LEADERSHIP OF HURON COUNTY: $5k → 13%PROJECT LEADERSHIP OF HURON COUNTY: $5k → 13%PROJECT LEADERSHIP OF HURON COUNTY: $5k → 13%PROJECT LEADERSHIP OF HURON COUNTY: $5k → 13%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES: $60k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES: $58k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES: $51k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES: $34k → 11%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $20k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $20k → 17%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES: $28k → 11%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $25k → 11%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $15k → 17%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $25k → 11%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $15k → 17%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $25k → 11%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $10k → 17%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $21k → 11%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $8k → 17%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $20k → 11%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $19k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES: $16k → 11%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $15k → 11%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

MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
MD
DC
AL
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 78 repeat orgs$527k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
21

Total granted

$7.6M
$416k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+16%

Still filing today

35%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FF
    FISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +64%
  • LD
    LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
    6× · 2017–2023 · $275k · revenue +26%
  • FH
    FIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAUL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $60k
  • LS
    LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OREGON
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • TS
    THE SENIOR CENTER OF NW OHIO
    one grant, 2019 · $42k
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
Huron County Growth Partnership

Promote huron county, ohio business

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2
Ohio Bankers League

Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.

Community Improvement
3
Ohio Land Bank Association

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…

Environment
4
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
5
Lorain County Historical Society Inc

The lorain county historical society collects, preserves, and shares the history of lorain county, ohio to educate and inspire present and future generations.

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6
Huron County Development Council

Strengthen industrial operations in huron county, ohio

Community Improvement
7
Lutheran Outdoor Ministries in Ohio

To inspire people to embrace their callings in creation and community by connecting people with nature and faith.

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8
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
9
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
10
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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11
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
12
Portage Development Board

To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Firelands Symphony Orchestra; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 107 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION: $510,000 · OtherFISHER-TITUS FOUNDATIONBOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY: $344,800 · OtherBOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITYAMERICAN RED CROSS: $334,400 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $235,000 · OtherFIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $209,750 · Other+83 more: $4,653,569 · Other+83 moreLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $275,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS…STEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC: $247,485 · Human ServicesSTEIN HOSPI…SERVING OUR SENIORS INC: $149,200 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR…CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $97,500 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND S…NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $60,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE FU…+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $159,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Association: $146,500 · Arts & CultureARTISTS OPEN STUDIO INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureSANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC: $66,540 · Arts & CultureFIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $65,820 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $19,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $87,500 · AnimalsHURON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $77,102 · AnimalsHUMANE OHIO: $48,142 · AnimalsSANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationHURON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $115,000 · PhilanthropyOH-GO: $48,025 · Public Benefit
Other$6,287,519Human Services$849,185Arts & Culture$561,860Animals$212,744Education$200,000Philanthropy$115,000Public Benefit$48,025

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION: $510,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $275,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC: $247,485 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $209,750 over 3y, 13% of budgetFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $208,769 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetSANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $159,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSERVING OUR SENIORS INC: $149,200 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $146,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHURON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetFLAT ROCK HOMES INC: $106,521 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetSANDUSKY JR SAILORS INC: $105,178 over 4y, 33% of budgetARTISTS OPEN STUDIO INC: $105,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $97,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $87,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHURON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $77,102 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetSANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC: $66,540 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $65,820 over 5y, 15% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $50,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetNORWALK AREA FOOD BANK: $48,775 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetHUMANE OHIO: $48,142 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOH-GO: $48,025 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHURON COUNTY GROWTH PARTNERHIP CHARITIES: $35,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFIRELANDS RAILS TO TRAILS INC: $27,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetOESTERLEN - SERVICES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT LEADERSHIP OF HURON COUNTY: $20,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetLEFTY GROVE BASEBALL LEAGUE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpotlight Society: $4,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Mylander Fdn-2001The Twenty First Cent…The Michelle Wightman…Geotrac Charitable Fo…Sidney Frohman Founda…Erie County Community…John F & Doris E Erns…Randolph J and Estell…The Gerard and Patric…Sam S Stein and Rose …The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Premier Bank Foundati…
The Mylander Fdn-2001OH32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Albert G & Olive H Schlink 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 107 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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