· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 30% of The Richard L and Freda K Flerlage Foundation C/O Susan Flerlage’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 28% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 18%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- 1F100 FRIENDS8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +37%
- FLFOR LOVE OF WATER3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +105%
- MWMAY WE HELP INC5× · 2018–2024 · $19k · revenue +579%
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
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.
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 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…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Richard L and Freda K Flerlage Foundation C/O Susan Flerlage funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard L and Freda K Flerlage Foundation C/O Susan Flerlage. Bigger dots raise more.
- Out in the Open Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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