· Private foundation
Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $910k
- $250k+2 grants · $870k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN | $606,684 |
| BEECH BROOK | $262,903 |
| RAINBOW BABIES CHILDRENS CORP | $202,295 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND | $202,094 |
| CLEVE CLINIC CHILDRENS HOSP | $202,094 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC | $101,147 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $101,147 |
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $101,147 |
| APPLEWOOD CENTERS INC | $48,768 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $32,512 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF OH | $20,469 |
| THE A M MCGREGOR HOME | $16,256 |
| CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND | $16,256 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC | $16,256 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF OHIO | $16,256 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- BBBeech Brook3× · 2022–2024 · $846k · revenue +23%
- ACAPPLEWOOD CENTERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +23%
- VGVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- RBRAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $204k · revenue +20%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA GREATERone grant, 2020 · $16k
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.
Circle Health fights for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Children's services
To improve the health and well-being of the community by providing quality and compassionate health care services in a patient-centered atmosphere, respecting individual and cultural diversity.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Cleveland hearing and speech is the premier provider of hearing, speech-language and deaf services, education, and advocacy helping people connect through communication, regardless of ability to pay.
Inspiring life journeys
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
Community reach center's mission is to enhance the health of our community.
The child and family guidance center (cfgc) is a community-based center that provides therapeutic, prevention, early intervention as well as support services to children and families in fairfield county ct. since 1925, cfgc has provided…
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Community Solutions and the most unlike its peers is The Hiram House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 31 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 The Centers for Families and Children ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Beech Brook ↗
- Who funds APPLEWOOD CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MCGREGOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Lexington Bell Community Center ↗
- Who funds THE HIRAM HOUSE ↗
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 · Rhodes Robert R Tr · The George Gund Foundation · The Clara Weiss Fund · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr 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.