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Wasserstrom 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish ColumbusAnnual Campaign | $100,000 |
| Nationwide Childrens Hosp Found | $50,000 |
| JFEDLA | $25,000 |
| Columbus St Com Coll Culinary Sch | $22,500 |
| Jewish Family Services | $20,000 |
| Lifetown | $10,000 |
| Ohio Restaurant Hospitaltity | $10,000 |
| Jewish Columbus | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Bexley Community Foundation | $9,000 |
| Columbus Jewish Day School | $5,000 |
| Jewish Community Center | $3,500 |
| The Ohio State Foundation | $3,000 |
| Friends of Israaeli Defense | $2,500 |
| Community Found Texas Hill Country | $2,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 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; $49k 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
- JJewishColumbus2× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +89%
- TCTHE COLUMBUS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +33%
- JCJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TOThe Ohio State Universityone grant, 2021 · $152k
- NCNationwide Children's Hospitalone grant, 2021 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $15k
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.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
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.
Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland including the preservation of jewish cemeteries
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 greater dayton is the central organization established to further the welfare of the jewish community. the federation coordinates social, welfare and cultural programs; fosters cooperation among jewish…
To raise funds and apply them to local charities including a jewish community centre, home for the aged, school and synagogue.
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. serves the burial needs of the Greater Cincinnati Jewish community with care and dignity and honors the resting places of our people.
To promote jewish learning and to vitalize jewish life through jewish education.
To further jewish historical education among youths
The foundation was structured to encourage funding of the jewish federation of greater des moines, and is responsible for adding financial stability by broadening the funding base and thereby improving the ability of the des moines jewish…
The Jewish Community Council of Erie is a community-based organization serving individuals and families in the Erie area with a wide range of social and educational services, as well as capacity-building support to other community-based…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is JewishColumbus and the most unlike its peers is Bexley Area Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 39 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 JewishColumbus ↗
- Who funds BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Columbus ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Columbus Jewish Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds BEXLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds BEXLEY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DREXEL INC ↗
- Who funds DECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · Jay and Jean Schottenstein Foundation · Allene N Gilman Charitable Trust · Lori Schottenstein Foundation · Lippy Foundation · The Simson Foundation · The Wexner Family Charitable Fund · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wasserstrom 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.
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.
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