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Deaconess Foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$245k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$5.1MCommunity Improvement$4.3MEducation$2.3MYouth Development$1.5MCrime & Legal$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$689kArts & Culture$518kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.7M
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT$245,000
YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED$222,000
FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE$220,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND$100,000
CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY (DBA NEWBRIDGE)$100,000
OPEN DOORS ACADEMY$90,000
OHIO GUIDESTONE$80,000
THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN$80,000
GREATER CLEVELAND WORKS$80,000
RESOURCE CLEVELAND$75,000
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND$75,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$75,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORP$70,000
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES$50,000
EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE$50,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.0M) 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.

area typical 11%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $20k → 16%OHIO EXCELS: $10k → 15%OHIO EXCELS: $10k → 15%RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $75k → 17%RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $50k → 17%NEAR WEST SIDE MULTI SERVICE CORPORATION (DBA MAY DUGAN CENTER): $25k → 17%NEAR WEST SIDE MULTI SERVICE CORPORATION: $18k → 17%NEAR WEST SIDE MULTI SERVICE CORPORATION (DBA MAY DUGAN CENTER): $15k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $250k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $150k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN: $115k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN: $80k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN: $75k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $38k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $6k → 17%THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $40k → 17%THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $12k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $12k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $10k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 63 repeat orgs$811k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
34

Total granted

$17M
$733k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+24%

Still filing today

59%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • YO
    YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +32%
  • TE
    TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +75%
  • FF
    FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +263%

Funded once

  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND COVID-19 RAPID RESPONSE FUND OF THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • CC
    CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • UC
    URBAN CITY CODES TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -64%
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
Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services
2
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
3
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
4
Lead Ohio

At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.

Education
5
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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6
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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7
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
8
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

—
9
Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc

Urban league of greater southwestern ohio, inc. is on a mission to end generational poverty through advocacy and by empowering individuals to establish careers, become entrepreneurs, build wealth, and develop as leaders.

Human Services
10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Engage Cleveland Inc

Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater Cleveland.

Community Improvement
12
Cleveland Development Foundation

Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Smart Development Inc. 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

64 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. 64 of the 102 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
43/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $2,051,750 · OtherYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITEDLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $1,101,500 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELANDTHE SALVATION ARMY: $548,609 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $426,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELANDBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED: $376,500 · OtherBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITEDCLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY: $518,339 · OtherCLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY+53 more: $1,914,734 · Other+53 moreFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $1,791,500 · Community ImprovementFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FU…MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC: $756,750 · Community ImprovementMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY &…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $380,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPOR…NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $265,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS IN…Spanish American Committee: $235,750 · Community ImprovementSpanish American Committ…+10 more: $307,500 · Community Improvement+10 moreTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $1,960,433 · EmploymentTOWARDS EMPLO…CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $201,100 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EM…COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $1,346,400 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW G…CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $204,000 · EducationCUYAHOGA COMM…EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $189,000 · EducationEDWINS LEADER…Saint Martin de Porres High School: $87,500 · EducationENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC: $75,000 · Education+10 more: $215,350 · Education+10 moreThe Centers for Families and Children: $728,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CLEVELAND: $125,000 · Human ServicesNear Westside MultiService Corp: $58,250 · Human ServicesTHEA BOWMAN CENTER: $52,000 · Human Services+4 more: $67,500 · Human ServicesOPEN DOORS INC: $960,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentOhioGuidestone: $595,737 · Health
Other$6,937,432Community Improvement$3,736,500Employment$2,161,533Education$2,117,250Human Services$1,030,750Youth Development$966,000Health$595,737

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 budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $2,051,750 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $1,960,433 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $1,791,500 over 9y, 16% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $1,346,400 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $1,101,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $960,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC: $756,750 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $728,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $595,737 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY: $518,339 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $426,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $380,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED: $376,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $265,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSpanish American Committee: $235,750 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $204,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $201,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $189,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $148,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND: $125,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSMART DEVELOPMENT INC: $95,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE MCGREGOR FOUNDATION: $89,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $87,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARGONAUT: $85,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFAIRFAX RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT: $80,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCleveland Social Venture Partners: $70,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $58,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHEA BOWMAN CENTER: $52,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetURBAN CITY CODES TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPHILANTHROPY OHIO: $46,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $45,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC: $43,300 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $40,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUMPSTART INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetESPERANZA INC: $38,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC: $35,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $28,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Owns: $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY: $21,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $21,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN OF COLOR FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetOHIO EXCELS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTeam NEO Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
  • Who funds MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
  • Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Spanish American Committee ↗
  • Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCE CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds SMART DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MCGREGOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
  • Who funds ARGONAUT ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFAX RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds ENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Cleveland Social Venture Partners ↗
  • Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
  • Who funds THEA BOWMAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds URBAN CITY CODES TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY OHIO ↗
  • Who funds THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAIR WAGE INC ↗

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 George Gund Found…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Reinberger Founda…The Abington Foundati…Higley Fund of the Cl…Saint Lukes Foundatio…Dominion Energy Chari…The Nord Family Found…United Way of Greater…Third Federal Foundat…The Swagelok Foundati…
The Cleveland FoundationOH74.9× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Third Federal Foundation · The Swagelok 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 Deaconess Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deaconess Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 102 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home