· Private foundation
Crofton Cares Inc
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA | $515,441 |
| THE FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $33,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $30,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $17,000 |
| RESOURCE CLEVELAND THE REFUGEE RESPONSE | $14,250 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $12,929 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $11,137 |
| THE CHISELERS INC | $10,000 |
| BEACHWOOD BOARD OF EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION OF MISHKAN OR | $10,000 |
| CORNERSTONE OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND | $6,750 |
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 (FY21–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- TUThe University of Tampa Incorporated7× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +51%
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $260k · revenue +17%
FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC6× · 2019–2025 · $251k · revenue +262%
Funded once
- FAFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INCone grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue 0%
- BCBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELANDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +65%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +44%
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.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
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,…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Henry B Plant Museum Society 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 40 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 University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE CHISELERS INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds DELTA SIGMA PI LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Henry B Plant Museum Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OHIO END OF LIFE OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds USA Triathlon Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH UNION FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE INC ↗
- Who funds MOTOVATIONAL 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 · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Hudson Community Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Crofton Cares Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
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.