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Cohen & Company Community Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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
- CZCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +72%
- TRTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC5× · 2019–2023 · $43k · revenue +77%
- TCTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- PSPlayhouse Square Foundationone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -6%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +1%
- CSCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone 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.
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.
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.
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.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
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…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
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.
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 field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Team NEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds NAMI LAKE COUNTY OH ↗
- Who funds Inspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc ↗
- Who funds BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds OVIATT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE DAY ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR KIDS OF WESTLAKE OH ↗
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: 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.
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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