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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.

$181k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$3.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$181k50%
FY20236$22k33%
FY20225$164k0%
FY20217$127k29%
FY20207$181k43%
FY20199$199k44%
FY201811$127kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$369kEducation$256kYouth Development$251kPhilanthropy$67kHuman Services$28kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
IA
OH
CA
KY
AZ
TN
MS
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Dynamic Catholic Institute$350,00050%
Hope Ignites Cincinnati$150,50037%
Ispace Inc$42,00052%
Pregnancy Center Plus Inc$23,00041%
United Way of Greater Cincinnati$11,00010%
Linden Grove School$10,00010%
St Margaret Hall$5,00020%
Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola$5,0001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$3,00010%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$3,00010%
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All grantees of The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Dynamic Catholic Institute$350,00050%
Hope Ignites Cincinnati$150,50037%
Ispace Inc$42,00052%
Pregnancy Center Plus Inc$23,00041%
United Way of Greater Cincinnati$11,00010%
Linden Grove School$10,00010%
St Margaret Hall$5,00020%
Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola$5,0001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$3,00010%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$3,00010%
Catholic Media Productions$1,5001n/a
Holy Family Communications$1,50010%
The Melbourne & Michael Folkes Foundation$1,500111%
Covenant House$1,00010%
Mercy House Living Centers$1,00010%
Royalmont Academy Inc$50010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($391k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Dynamic Catholic Institute: $350,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHope Ignites Cincinnati: $150,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetIspace Inc: $42,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPregnancy Center Plus Inc: $23,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLinden Grove School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Margaret Hall: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoly Family Communications: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Melbourne & Michael Folkes Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetCovenant House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy House Living Centers: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoyalmont Academy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation

How much does The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation give?
The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $181,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Education (26%), Youth Development (25%).
Who are The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Dynamic Catholic Institute ($350k), Hope Ignites Cincinnati ($151k), Ispace Inc ($42k).
Does The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
Where is The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation based?
The James W Gettelfinger Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 29 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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