· Private foundation
The Pat and Alan Spitzer 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OBERLIN-WELLINGTON RESCUE THEATER | $80,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE | $10,000 |
| PEOPLES CHURCH NETWORK - AVON | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| IAHP | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| IAHP | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS ORG | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP APL | $5,000 |
| HELP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HISTORIC GRAFTON SCHOOL | $500 |
| PATCHEN AND MURPHY CARLILE | $80 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- OROBERLIN-WELLINGTON RESCUE THEATER2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
- TOTHE OBERLIN-WELLINGTON RESCUE THEATER PROJECT2× · 2021–2022 · $64k · revenue +471% · 100% of their budget
- SASALVATION ARMY2× · 2023–2024 · $30k
Funded once
- OROCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +30%
- SASALMONE ASSOCIATESone grant, 2021 · $20k
- LCLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $15k
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 orthocarolina research institute (ocri) is an independent, non-profit 501(c)3 that exists to facilitate relevant orthopedic research which advances orthopedic treatments, improves quality of life for patients, and educates the medical…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Animal shelter operations and related pet adoption activities.
To save the lives of homeless, sick and injured cats and to work with our community to provide feline expertise and quality programs and services for people and cats.
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,…
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Enrich the lives of cats and communities in Greater Cincinnati by providing low-cost, high-quality spay/neuter services for ferals, strays and pets; offering trap-neuter-return and other outreach programs; and operating a no-kill adoption…
Through operating an animal shelter, we advocate for the welfare of animals in need by providing community support and compassionate care.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Ordway center for the performing arts (the ordway) mission is to be a cornerstone of exceptional artistic, educational, and cultural experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Theater Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 44 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 OBERLIN-WELLINGTON RESCUE THEATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds HELP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHCARE OF MEDINA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAT INC ↗
- Who funds OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
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 Nord Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Pat and Alan Spitzer 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.