· Private foundation
Dbj Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EITELJORG MUSEUM | $1,000,000 |
| NORTH POINT EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER | $500,000 |
| CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $100,000 |
| CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER | $75,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $75,000 |
| THE POINT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL FOOD | $25,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER CLEVELA | $25,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ATTICA CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $20,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND | $20,000 |
| PROJECT OPEN HAND | $20,000 |
| THE CITY MISSIONLAURA'S HOME | $15,000 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EMEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +24%
- ECENVISION CHILDREN4× · 2017–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +1% · 65% of their budget
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +72%
Funded once
- JAJACOBS AQUATIC CENTERone grant, 2017 · $20k
- CMCITY MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- NDNOTRE DAME COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -19%
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.
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.
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…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds WELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNUCOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND PARENTING ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME COLLEGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Reinberger Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dbj Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dbj Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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