· Private foundation
The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of THE JAMES W GETTELFINGER FAMILY 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 $10k9 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE GREATER CINCINNATI | $50,000 |
| DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| NEWPORT CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC INNER CITY SCHOOLS FUND | $24,000 |
| LINDEN GROVE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WILLIAM T COAKLEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK | $4,000 |
| PREGNANCY CENTER EAST | $3,000 |
| SAINT MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| SAINT STEPHEN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $29k) 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- TDTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE5× · 2019–2024 · $350k · revenue +12%
- IIISPACE INC5× · 2018–2022 · $42k · revenue +14%
- PCPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TDTOTAL DONATIONS TO RECIPIENTS WHO RECEIVED 1000 OR LESSone grant, 2018 · $20k
- UWUnited Way of Greater Cincinnatione grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue -2%
- NCNEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.
Good counsel, inc. is a not-for-profit organization rooted in the first principles of catholic morality concerning the dignity of every human person. good counsel recognizes the dignity of god-given life from the moment of conception,…
Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
For over 150 years, st. vincent's services, inc. (d/b/a heartshare st. vincent's services) has been a symbol of hope, compassion, and strength for vulnerable and under-resourced communities in new york city. (see on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy House Living Centers and the most unlike its peers is The Melbourne & Michael Folkes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 29 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 THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds ISPACE INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds LINDEN GROVE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET HALL ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MELBOURNE & MICHAEL FOLKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY COMMUNICATIONS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds ROYALMONT ACADEMY 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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 James W Gettelfinger Family 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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