· Private foundation
Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $200,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $100,000 |
| CITY OF CLEVELAND | $33,063 |
| PITCCH IN FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| POSITIVE COACHES ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NEAR WEST RECREATION CENTER OHIO CITY INCORPORATED | $8,000 |
| OLD BROOKLYN AREA LITTLE LEAGUE OBALL | $8,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAKE COUNTY | $8,000 |
| EMPOWER SPORTS | $8,000 |
| MAPLE HEIGHTS BOYS LEAGUE | $8,000 |
| B BUZZ BASEBALL LEAGUE | $8,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN | $8,000 |
| WEST DENISON BASEBALL LEAGUES INC | $8,000 |
| JARDIN 4 LIFE INC (ROBERTO CLEMENTE LEAGUE) | $8,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 9 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO5× · 2020–2025 · $446k · revenue +22%
- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $68k · revenue +56%
- PCPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- QDQUALIFIED DISASTER RELIEF GRANTS TOone grant, 2020 · $485k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $130k
- CBCLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATIONone grant, 2019 · $125k
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.
Training & Education
Providing sports to youth in the community.
Youth baseball league ages 4-14
Provide little league association in our county for youth baseball and softball participants. to teach and practice team and leadership skills..
Youth Sports Organization
To provide youth with baseball and softball in wayne county
Provide education guidance and training in youth sports and community involvement in a safe and positive environment
Community Service - Youth Baseball / Softball League
Providing a Youth Baseball League for North Central WV expanding across 3 counties
Little League Inc. is a non-profit youth organization in New York City.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Get in the Game. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 70 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WEST DENISON BASEBALL LEAGUES INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds OHIO CITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GET IN THE GAME ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLD BROOKLYN AREA LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD-LEROY-PAINESVILLE YAA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC ↗
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: Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Hudson Community Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc 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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