· Private foundation
Chilcote Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTFUL OHIO INC | $215,000 |
| ROFANT CLUB | $2,275 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOL6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +44%
- AOARTFUL OHIO INC2× · 2018–2025 · $216k · revenue +971% · 32% of their budget
- FIFutureHeights Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $61k · revenue +263%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
- UOURBAN OAK SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Midtown cleveland, inc. leverages its diverse assets to create a dynamic neighborhood that unites cleveland's downtown and innovation districts.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater Cleveland.
The Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra provides exceptional musical education through a variety of performance opportunities for young musicians of all backgrounds in an inclusive community of learning and growth.
To promote the increase of media production in Northeast Ohio using effective strategies for attraction and workforce development including building an artistic infrastructure through film, achieve increased economic development in…
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.
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…
Citymusic cleveland is a professional chamber orchestra, which performs free concerts throughout n.e. ohio, accompanied by art shows of local artists. our mission is to develop audiences & build communities through the arts by presenting…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 24 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 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARTFUL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds FutureHeights Inc ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds Literary Cleveland ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE CHORALE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds REACHING HEIGHTS ↗
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 George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chilcote Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chilcote Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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