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Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$161k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$161k0%
FY202422$167k5%
FY202321$159k5%
FY202220$154k5%
FY202120$141k15%
FY202018$119k0%
FY201920$133k0%
FY201820$131kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$403kYouth Development$370kHealth$82kArts & Culture$65kAnimals$39kEducation$25kRecreation & Sports$19k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($420k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Cleveland: $149,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetApplewood Centers Inc: $144,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $96,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEleanor B Rainey Memorial Institute: $74,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHattie Larlham Foundation: $56,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCleveland Zoological Society: $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetProvidence House Inc: $44,407 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCleveland Hearing and Speech Center: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRollinbuckeyez Foundation: $37,500 over 5y, 35% of budgetUrban Community School: $28,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRose-Mary the Johanna Grasselli Rehabilitation&Education Center Inc: $26,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBlessing House: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund?

Find your warmest path to Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund 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.

About Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund

How much does Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund give?
Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund reported 21 grants totaling $161,283 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Youth Development (37%), Health (8%).
Who are Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Young Mens Christian Association of Cleveland ($150k), Applewood Centers Inc ($144k), The Centers for Families and Children ($96k).
Does Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Corinne L Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Giant Eagle Foundation.
Where is Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund based?
Cleveland Auto Club Orphans' Outing Fund is based in OH.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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