· Private foundation
Cardinal Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $32,125 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE | $10,000 |
| KIRTLAND COUNTRY CLUB CADDIE PROGRAM | $9,241 |
| ST JUDES | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,865 |
| DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,334 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $3,333 |
| K9 FOR HEROES | $3,333 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| VELO SANO | $2,000 |
| THE CITY MISSION LAURA'S HOME | $2,000 |
| HOLDEN BOTANICAL GARDENS | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
John Carroll University7× · 2018–2024 · $147k · revenue +7%- LELAKE ERIE COLLEGE3× · 2018–2020 · $100k · revenue +21%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- HCHIRAM COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -8%
- LILife Is Good No Matter Whatone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -82% · 66% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
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.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
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…
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.
Children's hospital of pittsburgh foundation is the sole fundraising arm of upmc children's hospital of pittsburgh.the foundation exists to provide financial support for the hospital's mission of improving the health and well-being of…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Life Is Good No Matter What ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STELLA MARIS INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Brandon Family Foundation · Susan & John Turben Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cardinal Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cardinal Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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