· Public charity
David & Inez Myers Foundation
Further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation")
Read this first · the figures below need context
60% of David & Inez Myers Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 44 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $7,487,471 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,103,971 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $616,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $334k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+5 grants · $5.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $3,971,350 |
| JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND | $622,020 |
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC | $553,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO | $464,101 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA | $301,000 |
| SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA | $150,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $130,000 |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $100,000 |
| CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC | $97,500 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND | $92,500 |
| JTA-MJL NEW CORP | $90,000 |
| HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $90,000 |
| ORT AMERICA INC | $81,000 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $55,000 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO | $55,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $306k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of David & Inez Myers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 88% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- BBB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION4× · 2018–2022 · $6.4M · revenue +22%
- JEJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND7× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +79%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- DDIGITALCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +273% · 37% of their budget
- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $756k · revenue -28%
- JFJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $502k · revenue +41%
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 purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
To offer all Jews, regardless of affiliation, the opportunity to discover the Torah at their pace and schedule.
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.
To carry out the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland by promoting high quality jewish life-long learning opportunities regarding the study of judaism spiritually, historically, culturally,…
The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Hillel Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Getting to We. 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 46 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
80 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. 80 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds DIGITALC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOUR COMMUNITY HILLEL HOUSE DBA HILLEL AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds WORLD ORT INC ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JPRO NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES 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 · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Swagelok 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 David & Inez Myers 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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