· Private foundation
The Venner 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WADSWORTH SQUARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PIANO CLEVELAND | $50,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| AKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO | $15,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| CONVENTION OF STATES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- PIPIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH5× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +162%
- ACAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $242k · revenue +66%
- CACASE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- SHSACRED HEART CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MCMEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INCone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +10%
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.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
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…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
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…
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wadsworth Square Foundation 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 44 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 74 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 PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Wadsworth Square Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF WADSWORTH ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REGINA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Kulas Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · The Welty Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Venner 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.