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The Bettcher Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN | $2,000 |
| CAPTIVA CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $1,800 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY | $1,000 |
| RITTER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $700 |
| LAKE ERIE FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +118%- FSFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA4× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +18%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF FIRELANDSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- LILUCY IDOL CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +23%
- DMDEUTSHCER MUSIK VEREIN (GERMAN MUSIC SOCIETY)one grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
The erie community foundation works to improve the quality of life for all in our region by evaluating and addressing community issues, building permanent charitable endowments, and by promoting philanthropic and community leadership.
Erie canalway heritage fund, inc. works to preserve the extraordinary canal corridor heritage, to promote the corridor as a world class tourism destination, and to foster vibrant communities connected by the waterway.
The lorain county historical society collects, preserves, and shares the history of lorain county, ohio to educate and inspire present and future generations.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
Preserve, interpret and educate our community and our visitors on the rich history of the lake erie islands.
Mission statement: to gather, grow, and give endowed charitable financial resources to build stronger, more vibrant communities now and into the future.value statement:we are committed to managing our clients' philanthropic endowments in…
To benefit the general public by preserving natural lands and significant habitats, lands suitable for the production of food, timber, or other cultivated or natural products, lands creating scenic vistas for public enjoyment, lands with…
To solicit and collect donations for the preservation and restoration of lakewood's natural resources, including its landscape, trees, gardens and lake, and its historic monuments, markers and buildings, and for related educational…
To own and operate cemetery, sell services and memorials, as well as maintain grounds for the association.
The purposes of the erie yacht club are to maintain, develop, and enlarge the facilities for yachting and boating, to encourage and develop yachting and other aquatic sports, to promote social recreational activities connected therewith,…
Preserve historical structures, revitalize historic neighborhoods, educate the public about local history, advocate benefits derived from historic preservation
To provide compassionate interment services and education relative to its historic heritage and arboretum setting.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Firelands Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Brownhelm Historical Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 31 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 ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUCY IDOL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPTIVA CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Harbourtown Fine Arts Center ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Main Street Vermilion Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPTIVA ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Brownhelm Historical Association ↗
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 Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation · The Mylander Fdn-2001 · Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Cleveland Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · 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 The Bettcher 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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