· Private foundation
Coltman Thomas J Foundation Ta
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| HOUSE OF CHAMPIONS | $8,000 |
| LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMN | $7,500 |
| BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES | $7,000 |
| ST MALACHI PARISH | $6,000 |
| HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $6,000 |
| NAMI GREATER CLEVELAND | $5,000 |
| RENEE JONES EMPOWERMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CEN | $5,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| SEEDS OF LITERACY | $5,000 |
| THE CITY MISSION | $5,000 |
| FAMICOS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| CHAIR-ITY INC | $3,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- HOHOUSE OF CHAMPIONS5× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +223%
- BBBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES4× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +194%
- FFFAMICOS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- MCMETRO CATHOLIC SCHOOL CCLEVELANDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $8k
- SAST AUGUSTINEone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
Our mission is to cultivate food justice in northeast ohio and beyond by building enduring local food systems from the ground up. we believe fresh, local food, like-minded residents and passionate partners can transform under-resourced…
Youth-led Cultivators
Bike cleveland is creating a region that is sustainable, connected, healthy, and vibrant by promoting bicycling and advocating for safe and equitable transportation for all.
The city club of cleveland's mission is to create conversations of consequence that help democracy thrive. we do this in pursuit of our vision of strong, informed individuals and communities that prize freedom of speech and civil, civic…
Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…
The homeless families foundation educates and nurtures children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.
Cincinnati union cooperative initiative partners with individuals and other organizations to develop worker-owned businesses which provide family- sustaining jobs and create economy that works for all.
Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…
Noech exists to eliminate the root causes of homelessness while loving our diverse community through organizing, advocacy, education and street outreach.
Our mission is to empower children and adults with disabilities and (continued on schedule o) their families to achieve their greatest potential through holistic and family-focused services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School and the most unlike its peers is We Love Birthday Parties. 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 23 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 83 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 HOUSE OF CHAMPIONS ↗
- Who funds BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds FAMICOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAIR-ITY ↗
- Who funds NAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF LITERACY ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLABORATIVE TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Spark Ventures ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Rocks Past Present and Future ↗
- Who funds PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PIQUA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
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 · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Abington Foundation · Community West Foundation · Third Federal 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 Coltman Thomas J Foundation Ta 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.