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Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
166
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$394k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$10MCommunity Improvement$9.6MYouth Development$3.5MArts & Culture$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.1MInternational$1.1MScience & Tech$1.0MPublic Benefit$981kOther$0
02FY2024 · 166 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $200k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $728k
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$203M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO$135,000
PRESIDENTS' COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC$135,000
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 (FY20–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AVIVA (SARASOTA-MANATEE JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL): $1k → 9%The Relatives: $5k → 10%The Night Ministry: $10k → 14%Rebuilding Together Northeast Ohio: $14k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $2k → 16%SEALKIDS: $50k → 15%SEALKIDS: $10k → 15%Healthnetwork Foundation: $25k → 17%Healthnetwork Foundation: $10k → 17%Healthnetwork Foundation: $10k → 17%Family & Community Services Inc: $31k → 12%Family & Community Services Inc: $23k → 12%Family & Community Services Inc: $20k → 12%Renaissance Family Center of Windham Ohio: $10k → 12%FARE-CLE COMMUNITY FUND INC: $300 → 17%Senior Transportation Connection of Cuyahoga County: $5k → 17%Akron Urban League: $20k → 13%Building for Tomorrow: $20k → 13%Asian Services in Action Inc: $20k → 13%Akron Urban League: $1k → 13%Akron Urban League: $1k → 13%Project Ujima: $20k → 13%PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 17%GENDERSPHERE: $13k → 17%Project Ujima: $1k → 13%International Institute of Akron: $30k → 13%CHAIR-ITY INC: $13k → 17%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $25k → 13%GENDERSPHERE: $1k → 17%International Institute of Akron: $100 → 13%GENDERSPHERE: $700 → 17%Battered Women's Shelter: $200 → 13%Victim Assistance Program: $20k → 13%Victim Assistance Program: $20k → 13%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%Akron Area YMCA: $10k → 13%Hudson Community First: $6k → 13%HUDSON COMMUNITY FIRST: $6k → 13%Hudson Community First: $6k → 13%HUDSON COMMUNITY FIRST: $6k → 13%Hudson Community First: $6k → 13%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $25k → 17%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $500 → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $500 → 17%South Street Ministries: $2k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 162 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

162
142

Total granted

$29M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+17%

Still filing today

83%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • JI
    JUMPSTART INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +38%
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +26%
  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • GO
    GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +17% · 50% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +47%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA
    one grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue -17%
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
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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2
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
3
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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4
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

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.

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5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
6
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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…

Philanthropy
7
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
8
Jobsohio

To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.

Employment
9
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
10
Ohio Association of Community Colleges

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…

Education
11
Greater Akron Chamber

To promote business in the tri-county area

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12
Ohio Bankers League

Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; 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.
04the grantee network

280 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. 280 of the 343 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
275/280
Grantees still filing
185/280
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $2,384,930 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOLKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,854,757 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF AKRON RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,069,450 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF AKRON RESEARCH FOUNDATIONJohn Carroll University: $786,097 · EducationJohn Carroll UniversityLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $698,774 · EducationLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $698,143 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYBaldwin Wallace University: $671,674 · EducationBaldwin Wallace UniversityTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $479,180 · Education+36 more: $3,321,722 · Education+36 moreJUMPSTART INC: $2,697,000 · Community ImprovementJUMPSTART INCBOUNCE INNOVATION HUB: $1,779,000 · Community ImprovementBOUNCE INNOVATION HUBFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $831,000 · Community ImprovementFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTUR…WESTERN RESERVE COMMUNITY FUND INC: $600,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN RESERVE COMMUNITY F…GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementGROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS…VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC: $387,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $278,000 · Community Improvement+6 more: $481,500 · Community Improvement+6 moreGREATER AKRON CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $471,752 · OtherGREATER AKRON CHAMBER …ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $279,169 · OtherLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $252,000 · OtherWoodridge Local School System: $220,000 · OtherIDEASTREAM: $299,500 · OtherGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $406,650 · OtherGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE …+95 more: $4,243,225 · Other+95 moreNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $871,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $560,386 · Arts & CultureHUDSON LIBRARY & HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $231,900 · Arts & CultureTHE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC: $125,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $400,392 · Arts & CultureNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $337,353 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $306,500 · PhilanthropyOTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY OHIO: $130,980 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $120,000 · PhilanthropyAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $65,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO: $60,000 · PhilanthropyCANDID: $54,250 · Philanthropy+6 more: $153,870 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $746,000 · InternationalRAZOM INC: $125,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY: $110,000 · InternationalCENTRAL AMERICAN MEDICAL OUTREACH INC: $50,000 · International+6 more: $105,000 · InternationalPRESIDENTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC: $525,000 · EmploymentMortar Cincinnati: $320,000 · EmploymentEconomic Growth Foundation: $235,000 · Employment
Education$11,964,727Community Improvement$7,553,500Other$6,172,296Arts & Culture$2,188,678Philanthropy$1,368,203International$1,136,000Employment$1,080,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetJUMPSTART INC: $2,697,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $2,384,930 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,854,757 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetBOUNCE INNOVATION HUB: $1,779,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF AKRON RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,069,450 over 5y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $871,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $831,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $786,097 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $746,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $698,774 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $698,143 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $671,674 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE COMMUNITY FUND INC: $600,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $560,386 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPRESIDENTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC: $525,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetGROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $479,180 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER AKRON CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $471,752 over 4y, 41% of budgetGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $406,650 over 4y, 24% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC: $387,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $378,178 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $337,353 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMortar Cincinnati: $320,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $306,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $300,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $299,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $289,750 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $279,169 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $278,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $252,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEconomic Growth Foundation: $235,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHUDSON LIBRARY & HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $231,900 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAHONING COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $200,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $200,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $188,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $161,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENTREPRENEURS EDGE: $145,600 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetOTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetNOTRE DAME COLLEGE: $139,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIRAM COLLEGE: $137,479 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY OHIO: $130,980 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC: $125,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetRAZOM INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $120,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

Akron Community Found…Gar FoundationSynthomer Foundation …The Cleveland Foundat…Sisler McFawn Foundat…The Swagelok Foundati…The Welty Family Foun…Hudson Community Foun…The George Gund Found…The Char and Chuck Fo…Northern Ohio Golf Ch…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…
Akron Community FoundationOH118.7× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
58report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 343 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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