· Private foundation
The Richard L and Freda K Flerlage Foundation C/O Susan Flerlage
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE RICHARD L AND FREDA K FLERLAGE FOUNDATION C/O SUSAN FLERLAGE’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 $10k19 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ON THE GROUND GLOBAL | $10,000 |
| 100 FRIENDS | $10,000 |
| HEALTHY FOOD FOR ALL | $8,000 |
| SOARING UNLIMITED HAITI | $8,000 |
| PENINSULA HOUSING | $7,000 |
| YOUTH FARM PROJECT INC | $6,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| MAY WE HELP | $5,000 |
| TRANSFORM CINCINNATI (COMMUNITY SHARES OF GREATER CINCINNATI) | $5,000 |
| FLOW (FOR LOVE OF WATER) | $5,000 |
| UPSPRING | $3,000 |
| UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC | $2,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE EAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER | $2,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of The Richard L and Freda K Flerlage Foundation C/O Susan Flerlage’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 28% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 18% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 19 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- 1F100 FRIENDS8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +37%
- MWMAY WE HELP INC5× · 2018–2024 · $19k · revenue +579%
- UUPSPRING4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- KIKHUBA INTERNATIONAL QUARTER ACRE FOR THE PEOPLEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- OIOUT IN THE OPEN INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -59%
- EAEMPIRE AREA COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.
Employment connection is a nonprofit st. louis community asset whose mission is "to assist individuals with limited opportunities to self sufficiency" including those recovering from substance abuse, the homeless, low-income individuals…
Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.
As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…
Crossroads urban center provides food, clothing, and housing assistance services to low-income individuals and minorities.
Distribution of food to those in need.
We work to expand access to local food for more people in the community through the purchase, aggregation, storage, marketing and delivery of fresh, safe, local food in partnership with local growers.
The strategy center is a think tank/act tank for regional, national and international movement building, founded in 1988 and based in the 10 million-person world city of los angeles. our campaigns, projects, and publications are rooted in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons and Beyond Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peninsula Housing. 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 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 55 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 100 FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds Title Track ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA HOUSING ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FARM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF WATER ↗
- Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Doula Access Initiative ↗
- Who funds On The Ground ↗
- Who funds MENTORING PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKETS OF RAIN ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds EAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROW BY ROW ↗
- Who funds OUT IN THE OPEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE AREA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Friendship Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TANDANA FOUNDATION 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 · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Edelweiss Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Millstone Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Trust Estate of George B Riley · Agnes Nordloh Charitable Trust · Unnewehr Family 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 Richard L and Freda K Flerlage Foundation C/O Susan Flerlage 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.
- Out in the Open Inc — 7% 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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