· Private foundation
The Teri and Dan German Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 97% of THE TERI AND DAN GERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’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 · FY2023
- Under $10k43 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD CENTER OF GREATER DAYTON | $21,092 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FISHER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $10,000 |
| FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL | $3,295 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | $3,285 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE | $3,255 |
| JEWISH FEDERAL OF CLEVELAND | $3,060 |
| BEACHWOOD KEHILLA | $2,334 |
| JEWISH FAMILY EXPERIENCE | $2,223 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,038 |
| GREEN ROAD SYNAGOGUE | $1,955 |
| CHABAD HOUSE OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $1,600 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTER | $1,230 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $551 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF SARASOTA | $430 |
| ALPHA OMEGA FOUNDATION | $360 |
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 (FY20–23, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- FMFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS4× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue +58%
- BCBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND4× · 2020–2023 · $700 · revenue +101%
- MBMatan BSayser of Cleveland Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $470 · revenue +5%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICEone grant, 2022 · $2k
- BBBEAVERCREEK BOOSTER CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +92%
- SCSCHOTTENSTEIN CHABAD OSU CHABADone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
To unite all Jews in the spirit of the Torah, by various means, including, but not limited to disseminating information through publications, meetings, and seminars, and by cooperating with other charitable organizations to achieve these…
The Mt. Sinai Health Foundation improves the health of Greater Cleveland by investing resources, convening, and collaborating - with a focus on: - Equitable health outcomes- Health of the Jewish community- Academic medicine and bioscience…
Strengthen Kosher food standards and knowledge
Operation of an all male Religious Orthodox Jewish High School
Naaleh's mission is to strengthen the mental health of the community
To further jewish education in israel
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
To offer all Jews, regardless of affiliation, the opportunity to discover the Torah at their pace and schedule.
To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Chesed Center and the most unlike its peers is Mike Shane Memorial Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 78 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.
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: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Irving I Stone Foundation · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Jaffe Charitable Foundation · The Kline Family Foundation · J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation · The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Penni M and Stephen J Weinberg Family Fund · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Zusman Family Foundation · Morshana 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 Teri and Dan German Family Foundation Inc 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.