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Carfagna Family-Magis Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| BEAUMONT SCHOOL | $14,500 |
| ST DOMINIC CHURCH | $11,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS IN MISSION | $10,028 |
| JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICESUSA | $7,500 |
| JESUIT RETREAT CENTER | $5,000 |
| WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,850 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $3,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,500 |
| URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRI-C FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $3,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| KEEPERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
45 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- WSWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +14%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +39%- UCURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- HHOPEWELLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +37%
- TCThe Culture Project Internationalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +63%
- CKCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANKone grant, 2024 · $300 · revenue 0%
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Mount st. joseph university is a catholic academic community grounded in the spiritual values and vision of its founders, the sisters of charity. the university educates its students through interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional…
See schedule o.carlow university, rooted in its catholic identity and embodying the heritage and values of the sisters of mercy, offers transformational educational opportunities for a diverse community of learners and empowers them to…
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School and the most unlike its peers is International Partners in Mission. 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 48 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 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.
31 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. 31 of the 53 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 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS IN MISSION ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KEEPERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds JENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS ↗
- Who funds THE LYCEUM ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CLEVELAND ↗
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 Lozick Family Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Catherine L & Edward a Lozick Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Lenox Foundation · Samuel H & Maria Miller 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 Carfagna Family-Magis Foundation 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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