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THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION

THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,499,517 to it, the largest being GERLACH FOUNDATION INC ($3,499,517). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.7M
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$3.5M
Grants received
$73M
Net assets
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%

Against its field

THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($976k) Expenses 100 ($665k) Net assets 100 ($57M)2018 Revenue 111 ($1.1M) Expenses 117 ($780k) Net assets 136 ($78M)2019 Revenue 122 ($1.2M) Expenses 1080 ($7.2M) Net assets 113 ($65M)2020 Revenue 479 ($4.7M) Expenses 256 ($1.7M) Net assets 134 ($77M)2021 Revenue 132 ($1.3M) Expenses 152 ($1.0M) Net assets 122 ($70M)2022 Revenue 144 ($1.4M) Expenses 196 ($1.3M) Net assets 145 ($83M)2023 Revenue 162 ($1.6M) Expenses 232 ($1.5M) Net assets 123 ($70M)2024 Revenue 171 ($1.7M) Expenses 289 ($1.9M) Net assets 127 ($73M)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (289)Net assets (127)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,048 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$311k
17
$301k
18
$6.0M
19
$3.0M
20
$274k
21
$99k
22
$45k
23
$247k
24
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Part of a family of 29 related entities

  • The Columbus Foundation · exempt
  • Community Foundations Inc · exempt
  • Battelle Charities · exempt
  • Central Benefits Health Care Foundation · exempt
  • Columbus Youth Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION?
THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,499,517 to it, the largest being GERLACH FOUNDATION INC ($3,499,517). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,499,517 in grants to THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION?
GERLACH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,499,517 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE JOHN J AND PAULINE GERLACH FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing