· Private foundation
The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLE CREEK ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| WILLIAM LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY PTA | $4,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FDN | $3,500 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC | $3,250 |
| HALEAKALA WOLDORF SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| GROSS POINTE ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| JOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE | $2,625 |
| LAST PRISIONER PROJECT | $2,625 |
| COLORADO NATURE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| PUBLIC LIBRARY FDN OF | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HILTON HEAD LIBRARY | $2,500 |
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, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- TGTHE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +30%
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +68%
- ATAlternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +48%
Funded once
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +138%- CFCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -60%
- NNNAMI NORTH TEXASone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +13%
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 purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo and the most unlike its peers is Homesnow. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 176 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 GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE CREEK ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds WALDORF ASSOC OF WHATCOM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HALEAKALA WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON-RICHLAND LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIGMA GAMMA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIMOO Scholarships ↗
- Who funds Bellingham Bay Community Boating Center ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds WILD WHATCOM ↗
- Who funds COOL EARTH ACTION USA INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Bellingham ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Whatcom Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · Mount Baker Foundation · Mary H Storer Foundation · PeaceHealth · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Little Family Legacy Foundation · United Way of Whatcom County · The Dudley Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Sacred Family Causes 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 John E Goerlich Charitable Trust 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc — 0% of income from government
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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