John J and Pauline Gerlach Foundation

Analysis

John J and Pauline Gerlach Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, John J and Pauline Gerlach Foundation reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.5m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.6m (+33%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 294%. Over the whole period it spent 126% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, John J and Pauline Gerlach Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brompton Community Housing Development Corporation ($1.6m), Balboa Park Online Collaborative ($1.6m) and Keren Gemilas Chasodim Foundation Greater Lakewood Health Initiative ($1.6m).

At year end it held assets of $70.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $70.2m.