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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.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$241kHuman Services$99kArts & Culture$83kHealth$58kReligion$35kHousing & Shelter$24kInternational$24kCommunity Improvement$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
HOUSE OF CHAMPIONS$8,000
LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMN$7,500
BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES$7,000
HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND$6,000
ST MALACHI PARISH$6,000
NAMI GREATER CLEVELAND$5,000
RENEE JONES EMPOWERMENT CENTER$5,000
FAMICOS FOUNDATION$5,000
SEEDS OF LITERACY$5,000
THE CITY MISSION$5,000
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE$5,000
PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CEN$5,000
ST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
CHAIR-ITY INC$3,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHAIR-ITY INC: $9k → 13%CHAIR-ITY INC: $4k → 13%CHAIR-ITY INC: $4k → 13%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $5k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $3k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $3k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $2k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $2k → 17%WELCOME HOUSE INC: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $2k → 17%PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CEN: $5k → 17%PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CEN: $5k → 17%DIOCESAN COUNCIL SOCIETY OF SVDP: $500 → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $2k → 17%WELCOME HOUSE: $4k → 17%WELCOME HOUSE: $3k → 17%WELCOME HOUSE: $3k → 17%WELCOME HOUSE: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
CA
MD
NC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$576k · 43 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
31

Total granted

$576k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+13%

Still filing today

56%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HO
    HOUSE OF CHAMPIONS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +223%
  • BB
    BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +194%
  • FF
    FAMICOS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • MC
    METRO CATHOLIC SCHOOL CCLEVELAND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • SA
    ST AUGUSTINE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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2
Cleveland Museum of Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
3
Food Strong

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Cleveland Freedom Project

Youth-led Cultivators

Youth Development
5
Bike Cleveland

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
The City Club of Cleveland

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…

Education
7
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology

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.…

Arts & Culture
8
The Homeless Families Foundation

The homeless families foundation educates and nurtures children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
9
Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative

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.

Social Science
10
Neighborhood Progress Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless

Noech exists to eliminate the root causes of homelessness while loving our diverse community through organizing, advocacy, education and street outreach.

Human Services
12
Achievement Centers for Children

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School; 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.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
24/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL: $83,000 · OtherMAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOLCLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN: $28,000 · OtherCLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC: $27,000 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL: $26,500 · OtherST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOLLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMN: $19,367 · OtherCITY MISSION: $17,500 · OtherMETRO CATHOLIC PARISH SCHOOL: $17,500 · OtherRENEE JONES EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,500 · OtherST MALACHI PARISH: $16,000 · Other+49 more: $183,150 · Other+49 moreHOUSE OF CHAMPIONS: $43,500 · EducationHOUSE OF CH…BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $21,500 · EducationBIRTHING BE…+4 more: $3,500 · EducationCHAIR-ITY: $15,500 · Human ServicesCHAIR-ITYSEEDS OF LITERACY: $14,500 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF L…WELCOME HOUSE INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesWELCOME HO…PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesPREGNANT W…WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE …+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND: $14,500 · HealthSTELLA MARIS INC: $3,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION: $3,500 · HealthSHANEROCK - ALWAYS BELIEVE INC: $3,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthTHE COLLABORATIVE TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $12,500 · InternationalSpark Ventures: $11,500 · InternationalFAMICOS FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $12,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$451,517Education$68,500Human Services$61,000Health$27,000International$24,000Housing & Shelter$21,000Food & Nutrition$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOUSE OF CHAMPIONS: $43,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $21,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFAMICOS FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHAIR-ITY: $15,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND: $14,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY: $14,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLABORATIVE TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $12,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpark Ventures: $11,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCleveland Rocks Past Present and Future: $11,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetESPERANZA INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPIQUA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $7,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTELLA MARIS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY RIVER PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSHANEROCK - ALWAYS BELIEVE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetARGONAUT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE LOVE BIRTHDAY PARTIES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFRESH COLLECTIVE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL SOCIETY OF SVDP CLEVELAND DIOCESE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEAR WEST THEATRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWFOUNDLAND CLUB OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY RIDING INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURSULINE COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANZA INC ↗
  • Who funds PIQUA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗

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 Foundat…The Char and Chuck Fo…Higley Fund of the Cl…The George Gund Found…Murphy Family Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…The Cleveland Clinic …The Cleveland Clinic …Jewish Federation of …The Abington Foundati…Community West Founda…Third Federal Foundat…
The Cleveland FoundationOH55.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Coltman Thomas J Foundation Ta funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coltman Thomas J Foundation Ta. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 83 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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