· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE | $30,000 |
| HOUSING RESEARCH ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO | $20,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND | $20,000 |
| COURT COMMUNITY SERVICE | $20,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
| POLICY MATTERS OHIO | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINAN | $10,000 |
| MAY DUGAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| HFLA | $10,000 |
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 (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 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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CPCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +173%
- CCCOURT COMMUNITY SERVICE7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +18%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANKone grant, 2022 · $20k
- PAPolish American Cultural Centerone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CSCleveland State University History & Digital Humanitiesone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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,…
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.
To strengthen underserved neighborhoods and improve lives through innovative financing.
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…
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…
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.
Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio City Incorporated and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 70 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 CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS CDC ↗
- Who funds COURT COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- 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 IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Brown Chls & Hln Memorial F Ta 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.