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The Venner Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$348k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$634kHealth$484kArts & Culture$445kPublic Benefit$310kCrime & Legal$180kHuman Services$168kCivil Rights$87kPhilanthropy$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WADSWORTH SQUARE FOUNDATION$50,000
PIANO CLEVELAND$50,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$20,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$20,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY$15,000
AKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO$15,000
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$10,000
CONVENTION OF STATES FOUNDATION$10,000
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$10,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$10,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $10k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $10k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $10k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 14%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $3k → 13%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 14%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $2k → 13%HALO FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%HALO FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%HALO FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%HALO FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%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

IL
MI
NY
IA
OH
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 57 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
11

Total granted

$2.6M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-4%

Still filing today

74%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • PI
    PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH
    5× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +162%
  • AC
    AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $242k · revenue +66%
  • CA
    CASE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • SH
    SACRED HEART CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • MC
    MEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +10%
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
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
2
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
3
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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4
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
5
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
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
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.

—
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
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
11
Wilson College

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

Education
12
Open Markets Institute

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.

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

51 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. 51 of the 74 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
38/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH: $250,000 · OtherPIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OHCIPC: $128,000 · OtherCIPCST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $96,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $76,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $76,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONInstitute for Humane Studies: $58,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR: $55,000 · OtherTHE VILLAGE OF ST EDWARD: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherPacific Legal Foundation: $48,000 · Other+32 more: $434,000 · Other+32 moreCASE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $145,000 · EducationCASE ALUMNI ASSOCIATI…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $95,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGEHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $85,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGECASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $76,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE …CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $64,000 · EducationCLEVELAND INSTITUTE O…Sigma Chi Foundation: $45,000 · EducationSigma Chi FoundationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $15,000 · EducationAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $242,000 · HealthAKRON CHILDRE…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $55,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…REGINA HEALTH CENTER: $39,000 · HealthREGINA HEALTH…+3 more: $16,500 · HealthTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $45,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $42,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $37,000 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $80,000 · Civil RightsCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE: $45,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsLIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Civil RightsWadsworth Square Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $38,000 · Arts & CultureSummit Choral Society Inc: $15,500 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $8,000 · Arts & CultureFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $60,000 · Human ServicesHALO FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $4,500 · Human Services
Other$1,401,000Education$545,000Health$352,500Public Benefit$229,000Civil Rights$200,000Arts & Culture$111,500Human Services$97,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH: $250,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $242,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCASE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $145,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $95,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $85,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $80,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $76,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $64,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $60,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $58,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWadsworth Square Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $48,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF WADSWORTH: $45,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE: $45,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $42,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetREGINA HEALTH CENTER: $39,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $38,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute: $37,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $16,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSummit Choral Society Inc: $15,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNorthwestern University: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHALO FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZENS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONVENTION OF STATES ACTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF WADSWORTH ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Akron Community Found…Mary S & David C Corb…Northern Ohio Golf Ch…Sisler McFawn Foundat…The Char and Chuck Fo…Kulas FoundationLloyd L & Louise K Sm…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…John P Murphy Foundat…Charles E and Mabel M…The Welty Family Foun…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Akron Community FoundationOH23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 74 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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