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Brown Chls & Hln Memorial F Ta

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.

$308k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$436kCrime & Legal$195kEducation$159kHousing & Shelter$150kEnvironment$125kHealth$121kCommunity Improvement$118kFood & Nutrition$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$75,000
CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE$30,000
HOUSING RESEARCH ADVOCACY CENTER$25,000
COURT COMMUNITY SERVICE$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$20,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND$20,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$15,000
POLICY MATTERS OHIO$10,000
MAY DUGAN CENTER$10,000
CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY$10,000
THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND$10,000
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINAN$10,000
HFLA$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT: $3k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $14k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%ORGANIZE OHIO: $5k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 36 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
28

Total granted

$1.9M
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

61%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CP
    CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +173%
  • CC
    COURT COMMUNITY SERVICE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +18%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND
    7× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • FB
    FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • I
    IEFFA
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MAX S HAYES HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
2
West Creek Conservancy

Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…

Environment
3
Cleveland Mediation Center

Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…

Crime & Legal
4
Neighborhood Progress Inc

Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…

Community Improvement
5
Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education
6
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
7
Cleveland Public Market Corporation

Cleveland public market corporations mission is to preserve the city's public market tradition while making the local food system more accessible, equitable, and diverse.

Community Improvement
8
Cincinnati Development Fund

To strengthen underserved neighborhoods and improve lives through innovative financing.

Housing & Shelter
9
City Fields

To operate as a community development corporation with the goal to transform disadvantaged neighborhoods through five primary areas: physical revitalization, social revitalization, economic development, neighborhood safety, and leadership…

Community Improvement
10
Ohio Capital Finance Corporation

Ohio capital finance corporation provides flexible financing products and utilizes partnerships for the expansion and preservation of afforable housing to advance community development while ensuring that all residents regardless of income…

Community Improvement
11
The Land Cle

The Land is a local news startup that reports on Clevelands neighborhoods and inner ring suburbs. We deliver in-depth stories that foster accountability, inform the community, and inspire people to take action.

Arts & Culture
12
Cleveland Development Foundation

Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio City Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Friendship Foundation of American V. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
24/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $315,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOURT COMMUNITY SERVICE: $100,000 · OtherCOURT COMMUNITY SERVICELEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $95,000 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELANDHOUSING RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY CENTER: $85,000 · OtherHOUSING RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY CENTERPOLISH AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $78,000 · OtherPOLISH AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTERCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · OtherHFLA: $55,000 · OtherNear Westside MultiService Corp: $56,000 · OtherGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 · Other+34 more: $384,000 · Other+34 moreCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND PUBLIC…CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND RESTOR…NEAR WEST THEATRE INC: $33,000 · Arts & CultureNEAR WEST THEATR…BROADWAY SCHOOL OF MUSIC & THE ARTS: $27,000 · Arts & CultureBROADWAY SCHOOL …WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreNORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS CDC: $107,000 · Community ImprovementSLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT: $8,300 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,800 · Community ImprovementPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $80,000 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC: $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $70,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $95,000 · Food & NutritionWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $60,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC: $20,000 · Environment
Other$1,278,000Arts & Culture$308,000Community Improvement$118,100Health$116,000Education$105,000Food & Nutrition$95,000Environment$80,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $125,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS CDC: $107,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOURT COMMUNITY SERVICE: $100,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $95,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $90,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetHOUSING RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY CENTER: $85,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $70,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $56,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEAR WEST THEATRE INC: $33,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY SCHOOL OF MUSIC & THE ARTS: $27,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERNED CITIZENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $13,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetIRISH AMERICAN ARCHIVES SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT: $8,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRICHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetMANUFACTURING WORKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE: $3,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO CITY INCORPORATED: $2,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS CDC ↗
  • Who funds COURT COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
  • Who funds THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
  • Who funds GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds POLICY MATTERS OHIO ↗
  • Who funds NEAR WEST THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADWAY SCHOOL OF MUSIC & THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds IRISH AMERICAN ARCHIVES SOCIETY ↗

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 Foundat…The George Gund Found…The Char and Chuck Fo…Third Federal Foundat…The Abington Foundati…Sisters of Charity Fo…Mt Sinai Health Care …Saint Lukes Foundatio…Dollar Bank FoundationMurphy Family Foundat…Jack Joseph & Morton …The Reinberger Founda…
The Cleveland FoundationOH46.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Dollar Bank Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brown Chls & Hln Memorial F Ta funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Chls & Hln Memorial F Ta. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 64 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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