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The Roemisch Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$48kEducation$26kPublic Benefit$24kArts & Culture$20kYouth Development$7kCivil Rights$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$375
Median grant
12
States reached
$821k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF WILLOUGHBY HILLS$3,500
LAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION$3,000
LAUREL SCHOOL$2,900
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$2,900
NEW CONNECTICUT CHAPTER DAR$1,700
YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY$1,270
LEARNING ABOUT BUSINESS$1,200
LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING$1,000
CATO INSTITUTE$1,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$1,000
HARVEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$1,000
UNIV OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE MEDICINE$1,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$1,000
THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$1,000
MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER$990
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE KASH FOUNDATION: $100 → 9%SUIT YOURSELF: $190 → 9%SUIT YOURSELF: $119 → 9%SUIT YOURSELF: $100 → 9%LAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTER: $200 → 9%LAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTER: $100 → 9%DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
AZ
KS
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$111k · 43 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
41

Total granted

$111k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+3%

Still filing today

58%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LS
    LAUREL SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +2%
  • LA
    LEARNING ABOUT BUSINESS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +28%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -1%
  • ST
    SAFETY TOWN WILLOUGHBY HILLS
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
3
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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4
Augustana College

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…

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Furman University

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.

Education
9
The George Washington University

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…

Education
10
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
11
American Law Institute

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…

Crime & Legal
12
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
30/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $33,000 · OtherLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATIONLAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,700 · OtherLAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYUNIV OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE MEDICINE: $4,500 · OtherCITY OF WILLOUGHBY HILLS: $3,500 · OtherSAFETY TOWN WILLOUGHBY HILLS: $3,000 · Other+76 more: $36,143 · Other+76 moreLAUREL SCHOOL: $11,500 · EducationLAUREL SCHOOLASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $2,940 · EducationASHLAND UNIVERSI…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,844 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEG…The Trustees of Princeton University: $2,000 · EducationThe Trustees of …READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $1,150 · Education+4 more: $1,200 · Education+4 moreTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,100 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE F…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $4,631 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH…Wreaths Across America: $4,500 · Public BenefitWreaths Across…CATO INSTITUTE: $2,190 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTELeadership Institute: $2,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Ins…+2 more: $850 · Public BenefitTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $1,450 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $1,180 · Arts & CultureMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $1,100 · Arts & CultureCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN: $1,000 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $500 · Arts & CultureNORTHEASTERN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION OF OHIO INC: $447 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $300 · Arts & CultureOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $250 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $244 · Arts & CultureLEARNING ABOUT BUSINESS: $5,600 · Youth DevelopmentSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $3,490 · Civil Rights
Other$85,843Education$21,634Public Benefit$19,271Philanthropy$9,200Arts & Culture$6,471Youth Development$5,600Civil Rights$3,490

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAUREL SCHOOL: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,700 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLEARNING ABOUT BUSINESS: $5,600 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $4,631 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $3,490 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $2,940 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,844 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $2,356 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $2,190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $1,450 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $1,185 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $1,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomankind Inc: $850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCO2 COALITION: $580 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $490 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION OF OHIO INC: $447 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUIT YOURSELF INC: $409 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $190 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HERITAGE OUR HOME INC: $150 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCops Direct: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKASH FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN MINISTRIES: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • 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 CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds Womankind 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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Jerome T Osborne and …Barnard Family Founda…Gould Inc Foundation …Dominion Energy Chari…Avery Dennison Founda…Farrell Family Founda…The Swagelok Foundati…Premier Bank Foundati…The Covia FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…
The Cleveland FoundationOH24.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Roemisch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roemisch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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