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Cohen & Company Community Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$325k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$114kArts & Culture$104kHealth$83kHuman Services$75kPublic Benefit$43kReligion$40kPhilanthropy$39kEducation$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k54 grants · $190k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC$50,000
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$25,000
BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$15,454
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$15,000
THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$10,000
TEAM NEO FOUNDATION$10,000
INSPIRING MINDS OF YOUNGSTOWN INC$5,000
CONNECTING FOR KIDS OF WESTLAKE OHIO$5,000
1871 FOUNDATION INC$5,000
PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION$5,000
NAMI LAKE COUNTY OH$5,000
THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$5,000
NORTH HILLS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC DBA HEARTH$5,000
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%GIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1k → 11%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $2k → 21%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%INSPIRING MINDS OF YOUNGSTOWN INC: $5k → 19%THE TEACHERS DESK: $5k → 13%THE CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $2k → 21%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $3k → 13%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $5k → 13%WELCOME HOUSE INC: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CO
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$259k · 11 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$259k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+1%

Still filing today

73%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CZ
    CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +72%
  • TR
    THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $43k · revenue +77%
  • TC
    THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • PS
    Playhouse Square Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -6%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • CS
    CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy
2
Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services
3
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
4
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

5
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

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…

Philanthropy
6
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
7
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
8
Ohio Life Sciences Foundation

The mission of ohio life sciences foundation is to accelerate bioscience discovery, innovation and commercialization of global value, driving economic growth, company attraction, improving workforce training and improved quality of life in…

Health
9
Hope for Cleveland's Children
10
Leadership Akron

The mission of leadership akron is to inspire, strengthen, and empower leaders. our purpose is to unlock the potential of leaders and serve as a catalyst that drives them to create a greater akron.

Education
11
The University of Toledo Foundation

The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…

Education
12
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is The Union Home Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports Booster Organi…Cancer Support OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Child and Family ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionPublic University Foundatio…Small Business Development …Hospice Care ServicesHomeless Services & ShelterAt-Risk Youth MentoringAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Development CentersUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Food Pantries & AssistanceUnited Way FederationsElementary Literacy TutoringEducation Equity LeadershipDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Independent K-8 SchoolsJewish Community FederationsClassical Music EnsemblesCommunity Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr20%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr16%36%35–55yr20%30%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/74
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,232

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.

04the grantee network

72 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 85 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
32/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC — $50,000 · OtherCLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INCGROSSE POINTE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY — $25,000 · OtherLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRYTeam NEO Foundation — $10,000 · Other+33 more — $110,900 · Other+33 moreCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $107,500 · AnimalsCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL…+4 more — $6,100 · Animals+4 moreTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $43,400 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AND ROL…Playhouse Square Foundation — $30,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Square…The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage — $9,000 · Arts & CultureThe Maltz Museum…OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO & ERIE CANA…OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND — $40,000 · EducationTHE CITY C…CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationCLEVELAND …LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationLORAIN COU…THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $5,000 · EducationTHE OHIO F…CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK — $2,500 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $2,500 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $11,000 · HealthST JUDE CH…NAMI LAKE COUNTY OH — $5,000 · HealthNAMI LAKE …BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU — $5,000 · HealthBELLEFAIRE…The Against Malaria Foundation — $5,000 · HealthThe Agains…HOPE FOR THE DAY — $5,000 · HealthHOPE FOR T…LAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthLAKE HOSPI…AUTISM SPEAKS INC — $5,000 · HealthAUTISM SPE…Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries — $5,000 · HealthDetroit Re…American Heart Association Inc — $5,000 · HealthAmerican H…HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR WOMEN INC — $3,000 · HealthTRANSPLANT HOUSE OF CLEVELAND — $2,500 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · HealthCOVENANT HOUSE — $10,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $5,000 · Human ServicesInspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE AKRON INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWELCOME HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEACHERS DESK INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTER — $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND — $15,454 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyI LOVE YOU MORE THE MICHAEL TRELLA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH HILLS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY — $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$205,900Animals$113,600Arts & Culture$92,400Education$60,000Health$59,000Human Services$50,000Philanthropy$48,954

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $107,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $43,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND — $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage — $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI LAKE COUNTY OH — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE HOUSE AKRON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOVIATT HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTING FOR KIDS OF WESTLAKE OH — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEACHERS DESK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH HILLS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHITCHCOCK CENTER FOR WOMEN INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN WARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSteak Club Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE OF A KIND PET RESCUE INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMALL MIRACLES CAT AND DOG RESCUE INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Akron Musical Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Burton D Morgan Foundation IncOH27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Swagelok Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · Community West Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · Akron Community 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 Cohen & Company Community 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.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cohen & Company Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cohen & Company Community Foundation 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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