· Private foundation
Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $200k
- $10k–50k68 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $728k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOUNCE INNOVATION HUB | $393,500 |
| JUMPSTART INC | $334,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $212,500 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $204,000 |
| WESTERN RESERVE COMMUNITY FUND | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $180,750 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $180,000 |
| NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC | $171,600 |
| FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $170,000 |
| LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $157,500 |
| COMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $151,500 |
| JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $145,000 |
| BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY | $140,000 |
| PRESIDENTS' COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC | $135,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO | $135,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $520k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
162 repeat relationships — 110 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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
- JIJUMPSTART INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +38%
- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +26%
- KSKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- GOGROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INCone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +17% · 50% of their budget
- TNTHE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +47%
- UWUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINAone grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue -17%
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.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
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.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Oacc is dedicated to the advancement and implementation of sound policy and initiatives that work to ensure the success of the more than 300,000 community college students in ohio. rooted in the belief that every person should have access…
To promote business in the tri-county area
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Peninsula Foundation Inc. 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 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% 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.
280 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. 280 of the 343 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JUMPSTART INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOUNCE INNOVATION HUB ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF AKRON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER AKRON CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mortar Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Economic Growth Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUDSON LIBRARY & HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MAHONING COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · Gar Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Swagelok Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Hudson Community Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt 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 Burton D Morgan 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.
- National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc — 38% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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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