· Private foundation
Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $20,000 |
| APPLEWOOD CENTERS INC | $18,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $17,000 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN | $12,000 |
| RAINEY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| HATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN (CAMP CHEERFUL) | $7,500 |
| ROLLINBUCKEYEZ FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $6,408 |
| FAMILY CONNECTIONS | $6,075 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $5,625 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER CLEVELAND (UCP) | $5,500 |
| HIRAM HOUSE CAMP | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND HEARING & SPEECH CENTER | $5,000 |
| BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES GARDEN FOR EVERY CHILD | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against -32% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND7× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +17%
- ACAPPLEWOOD CENTERS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $126k · revenue +35%
- EBELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE7× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- BHBLESSING HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -32%
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 Cleveland Christian Home, Inc. exists to be a haven of hope for children, youth, and families struggling with mental illness, abuse, and neglect in Northeast Ohio.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.
The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.
Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Circle Health fights for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential.
Columbus early learning centers (celc) has over 130 years of history providing high quality, affordable early learning and childcare in central ohio. this rich history places celc amongst the oldest early childcare programs in the country.…
Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School and the most unlike its peers is Rollinbuckeyez Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 26 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds APPLEWOOD CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROLLINBUCKEYEZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROSE-MARY THE JOHANNA GRASSELLI REHABILITATION&EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOUSE ↗
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 · Corinne L Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences · Giant Eagle Foundation · E S Prentiss Foundation-Ir · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund 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.
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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