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The Frederick E and Julia G Nonneman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Frederick E and Julia G Nonneman Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.1M
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Education$12MPublic Benefit$9.3MHuman Services$4.0MCrime & Legal$3.3MArts & Culture$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.5MFood & Nutrition$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MOther$0
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$290,971
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT$2,058,971
GOLDWATER INSTITUTE$632,000
CATO INSTITUTE$290,971
NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FDN$290,971
AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHERN OHIO REGIONNE OHIO CHAPTER$290,971
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$290,971
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$290,971
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GOLDWATER INSTITUTE: $632k → 11%PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT: $2.1M → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2.5M → 14%SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $2.5M → 17%NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FDN: $3.0M → 6%SALVATION ARMY USA: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $1.5M → 26%ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $2.0M → 29%CATO INSTITUTE: $3.0M → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $291k → 14%METRO CATHOLIC PARISH SCHOOL: $3.0M → 17%NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FDN: $291k → 6%CATO INSTITUTE: $291k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $1.0M → 17%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3.0M → 14%URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $3.0M → 17%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $291k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHERN OHIO REGIONNE OHIO CHAPTER: $291k → 17%MALACHI HOUSE: $1.5M → 17%GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK: $1.5M → 17%CITY MISSION: $2.8M → 17%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2.5M → 17%THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $1.5M → 17%THE MUSIC SETTLEMENT: $1.5M → 17%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Frederick E and Julia G Nonneman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Frederick E and Julia G Nonneman Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 3 repeat orgs$25M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$9.9M
$22M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Public BenefitEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3.3M · revenue +12%
  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3.3M · revenue +93%
  • NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3.3M · revenue -41%

Funded once

  • MC
    METRO CATHOLIC PARISH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M
  • UC
    URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue +140%
  • CM
    CITY MISSION
    one grant, 2020 · $2.8M
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
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
2
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
The Cleveland Institute of Art

The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Musical Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METRO CATHOLIC PARISH SCHOOL: $3,000,000 · OtherMETRO CATHOLIC PARISH SCHOOLURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $3,000,000 · OtherURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLCITY MISSION: $2,750,000 · OtherCITY MISSIONCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $2,500,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYMALACHI HOUSE INC: $1,500,000 · OtherMALACHI HOUSE INCAMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $1,010,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CLEVELAND+2 more: $300,971 · OtherTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,290,971 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONCATO INSTITUTE: $3,290,971 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTEPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $2,058,971 · Public BenefitPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVER…BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $632,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE …HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,790,971 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $2,000,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLE…UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $1,500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE…NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,290,971 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL …THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Association: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $1,500,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$16,560,971Public Benefit$9,272,913Education$6,290,971Crime & Legal$3,290,971Arts & Culture$3,000,000Food & Nutrition$1,500,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,290,971 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $3,290,971 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,290,971 over 2y, 22% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,790,971 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $2,058,971 over 1y, 24% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $2,000,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $1,500,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $1,500,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $632,000 over 1y, 10% 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.

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.

American Endowment Fo…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · 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 The Frederick E and Julia G Nonneman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frederick E and Julia G Nonneman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 20 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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