How much does The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust give?

The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust reported 83 grants totaling $104,502 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 84 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (9%), Recreation & Sports (9%).

Who are The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Grosse Pointe Academy ($27k), William Marsh Rice University ($18k), Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ($16k).

Does The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whatcom Community Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Chuckanut Health Foundation.

Where is The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust based?

The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust is based in OH.

The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust

The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$164kHealth$53kRecreation & Sports$52kReligion$40kFood & Nutrition$38kEnvironment$35kHuman Services$26kYouth Development$21kOther$0

02FY2025 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY	$3,500
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FDN	$3,500
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC	$3,250
HALEAKALA WOLDORF SCHOOL	$3,000
GROSS POINTE ACADEMY	$3,000
LAST PRISIONER PROJECT	$2,625
JOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE	$2,625
University of Detroit Mercy	$2,500
PUBLIC LIBRARY FDN OF	$2,500
COLORADO NATURE SCHOOL	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$478k · 105 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105

Total granted

$478k

$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

Still filing today

68%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

TG
THE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY
6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +30%
WM
William Marsh Rice University
6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +68%
AT
Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank
6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +48%

Funded once

MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +138%
CF
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -60%
NN
NAMI NORTH TEXAS
one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -2%

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.

The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment

Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment

Digital Harbor Foundation

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

Education

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals

United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports

American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit

Internet Society Foundation

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…

International

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health

Npr Foundation

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…

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health

United States Naval Institute

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo; 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.

04the grantee network

122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

120/122

Grantees still filing

75/122

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$321,893Education$103,417Human Services$34,250Food & Nutrition$29,050Environment$27,571Philanthropy$23,105International$17,875

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

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.

Whatcom Community FoundationWA29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John E Goerlich Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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