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The Ginn Family Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ginn Family Fund

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$528k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Environment$659kPhilanthropy$370kRecreation & Sports$113kHuman Services$35kArts & Culture$22kEducation$22kHealth$14kReligion$14kOther$0
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $897k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSVCY$528,000
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$369,276
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$100,000
GEAUGA PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION$100,000
SOUTH NEWBURY UNION CHURCH$12,000
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSVCY$7,500
HOMECARE ED AND RESOURCE TEAMS$2,750
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ISLAND PRESS: $12k → 14%GEAUGA PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%THE WAY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%OBERLIN HERITAGE CENTER: $100 → 13%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7k → 15%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSVCY: $528k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 7%PORTLAND PARK DISTRICT: $1k → 7%MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOP: $10k → 11%COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $500 → 11%BATES COLLEGE: $200 → 13%HOMECARE EDUCATION RESOURCE TEAM: $20k → 6%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 15%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSVCY: $8k → 17%MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $369k → 7%MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS: $5k → 11%BCCNS LIFE SUPPORT NETWORK: $14k → 6%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $170 → 15%ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $1k → 17%MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS: $3k → 11%SOUTH NEWBURY UNION CHURCH: $12k → 6%ACLU OF OHIO FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS: $3k → 11%HOMECARE EDUCATION RESOURCE TEAM: $6k → 6%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%HOMECARE EDUCATION RESOURCE TEAM: $6k → 6%CLEVELAND MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 17%HOMECARE ED AND RESOURCE TEAMS: $3k → 6%JUDSON FOUNDATION: $525 → 17%FARMORE AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE: $3k → 6%JUDSON FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%BURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 → 6%CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $200 → 17%BURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 → 6%GEAUGA PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $11k → 6%GEAUGA PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME: $500 → 6%SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME: $100 → 6%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$158k · 6 repeat orgs$614k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$158k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+31%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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

  • GP
    GEAUGA PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2022 · $113k
  • HE
    HOMECARE EDUCATION RESOURCE TEAM
    3× · 2017–2020 · $32k
  • MM
    Maine Media College
    3× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue -10%

Funded once

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +39%
  • BL
    BCCNS LIFE SUPPORT NETWORK
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
  • IP
    ISLAND PRESS
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -34%
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
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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2
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
3
Wilson College

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

Education
4
Oberlin College

Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…

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
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
9
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
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Institute of Music; the most unlike its peers is Island Press. 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

12 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. 12 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $535,500 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY+1 more: $12,000 · EnvironmentMaine Community Foundation Inc: $369,276 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation Inc+1 more: $1,025 · PhilanthropyGEAUGA PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $113,000 · OtherGEAUGA PARK DISTRICT FOUNDAT…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $111,670 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYHOMECARE EDUCATION RESOURCE TEAM: $32,060 · OtherHOMECARE EDUCATION RESOURCE …BCCNS LIFE SUPPORT NETWORK: $14,000 · OtherSOUTH NEWBURY UNION CHURCH: $12,000 · OtherMaine Media College: $10,500 · Other+11 more: $21,450 · Other+11 moreCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $400 · EducationAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC: $100 · Civil Rights
Environment$547,500Philanthropy$370,301Other$314,680Education$20,400Civil Rights$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $535,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $369,276 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $111,670 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND PRESS: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Media College: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUDSON FOUNDATION: $1,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOBERLIN HISTORICAL AND IMPROVEMENT ORGANIZATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT13.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 The Ginn Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ginn Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 25 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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