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Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr

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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$17,930
Largest grant, FY2025
$669,155
Organizations funded a year
21 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$41M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$2.3M0%
FY202421$2.0M5%
FY202321$2.1M5%
FY202221$2.4M29%
FY202121$2.0M10%
FY202021$2.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$5.9MHealth$3.6MReligion$700kYouth Development$90kEmployment$85kHousing & Shelter$85kCommunity Improvement$85kArts & Culture$42kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Centers for Families and Children$1,894,86832%
Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland$1,281,59162%
Beech Brook$1,136,05743%
Applewood Centers Inc$309,26360%
First Church of Christ Scientist$309,2133n/a
The Salvation Army$206,1756n/a
Rainbow Babies & Children's Foundation$203,73613%
The McGregor Foundation$103,08860%
Vocational Guidance Services$103,08860%
The Center for Community Solutions$103,08861%
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All grantees of Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Centers for Families and Children$1,894,86832%
Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland$1,281,59162%
Beech Brook$1,136,05743%
Applewood Centers Inc$309,26360%
First Church of Christ Scientist$309,2133n/a
The Salvation Army$206,1756n/a
Rainbow Babies & Children's Foundation$203,73613%
The McGregor Foundation$103,08860%
Vocational Guidance Services$103,08860%
The Center for Community Solutions$103,08861%
Cleveland Society for the Blind$70,24540%
Lexington Bell Community Center$50,90861%
The Hiram House$36,76560%
Church Home$36,0592n/a
Episcopal Diocese of Ohio$34,1862n/a

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $1,894,868 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association of Cleveland: $1,281,591 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBeech Brook: $1,136,057 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetApplewood Centers Inc: $309,263 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRainbow Babies & Children's Foundation: $203,736 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe McGregor Foundation: $103,088 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVocational Guidance Services: $103,088 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Center for Community Solutions: $103,088 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCleveland Society for the Blind: $70,245 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLexington Bell Community Center: $50,908 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Hiram House: $36,765 over 6y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 FoundationOH21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr

How much does Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr give?
Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr reported 21 grants totaling $2,263,504 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (56%), Health (34%), Religion (7%).
Who are Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Centers for Families and Children ($1.9M), Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland ($1.3M), Beech Brook ($1.1M).
Does Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Rhodes Robert R Tr, The George Gund Foundation.
Where is Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr based?
Wade Ellen Garretson Ochr is based in OH.

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 31 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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