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Connor Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $600k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEMS | $500,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION | $200,000 |
| TWO FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $100,000 |
| MINDS MATTER CLEVELAND | $25,000 |
| ST ALOYSIUS AGATHA CHURCH | $20,000 |
| CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,400 |
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 (FY17–23, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% 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.
57 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TRTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC4× · 2017–2020 · $4.1M · revenue +80%
- TFTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE6× · 2019–2024 · $510k · revenue +418%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC6× · 2017–2024 · $417k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- WAWelsh Academyone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CPCleveland Public Library Fdone grant, 2022 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
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,…
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
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 cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
To be a national model for how a presenting organization serves its community, leveraging the worlds best modern and contemporary dance to inspire and educate audiences, local dancers, and community members.
To welcome all to our music and arts community to learn, create, celebrate and heal.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Contemporary Youth Orchestra. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 21. 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 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.
56 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. 56 of the 99 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 THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds USS CLEVELAND LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INMOTION ↗
- Who funds FSHD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PLATFORM TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS 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: The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · Sullivan Family Fund
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 Connor 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.