· Private foundation
The Roemisch Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF WILLOUGHBY HILLS | $3,500 |
| LAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $2,900 |
| LAUREL SCHOOL | $2,900 |
| NEW CONNECTICUT CHAPTER DAR | $1,700 |
| YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY | $1,270 |
| LEARNING ABOUT BUSINESS | $1,200 |
| HARVEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIV OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE MEDICINE | $1,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $1,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $990 |
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 (FY21–25, $909) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 25 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- LSLAUREL SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +2%
- LALEARNING ABOUT BUSINESS5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +28%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -1%
- STSAFETY TOWN WILLOUGHBY HILLSone grant, 2022 · $3k
- GMGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Our Heritage Our Home Inc. 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 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 111 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 LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEARNING ABOUT BUSINESS ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Womankind 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 Cleveland Foundation · Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust · Barnard Family Foundation Elaine T Barnard Trustee · Gould Inc Foundation Co Thomas N Rich · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Avery Dennison Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The Covia Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment 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 Roemisch 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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.