· Private foundation
American Greetings Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k9 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| SESAME WORKSHOP | $150,000 |
| CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $115,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL | $85,000 |
| MEDWORDS | $10,000 |
| SAINT MARTIN DEPORRES SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| ST ANTHONY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST CHAPTER OF LLS | $5,000 |
| NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| WESTLAKE WORLD PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE DIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $5,000 |
| MANDEL JCC | $5,000 |
| VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k 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
- TMThe Musical Arts Association2× · 2017–2018 · $245k · revenue +45%
- TNThe New School2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +24%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2017–2018 · $87k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF CLEVELANDone grant, 2017 · $191k
- NINEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC)one grant, 2017 · $175k · revenue +21%
- CCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +24%
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.
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To be a national model for how a presenting organization serves its community, leveraging the worlds best modern and contemporary dance to inspire and educate audiences, local dancers, and community members.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…
The city club of cleveland's mission is to create conversations of consequence that help democracy thrive. we do this in pursuit of our vision of strong, informed individuals and communities that prize freedom of speech and civil, civic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Institute of Art and the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 49 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 Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC) ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds ENACTUS ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF KENTUCKY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds DIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND POPS ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds Engage Cleveland Inc ↗
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 · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The George Gund Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · Third Federal Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Nord Family Foundation · Akron Community 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 American Greetings Foundation Inc 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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