· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT | $245,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED | $222,000 |
| FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE | $220,000 |
| CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY (DBA NEWBRIDGE) | $100,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| OPEN DOORS ACADEMY | $90,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND WORKS | $80,000 |
| THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN | $80,000 |
| OHIO GUIDESTONE | $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 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you 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
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; $78k 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
- YOYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +32%
- TETOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +75%
- FFFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +263%
Funded once
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND COVID-19 RAPID RESPONSE FUND OF THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- CCCUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $70k
- UCURBAN CITY CODES TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCEone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -64%
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.
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.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
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.
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.
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.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
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.
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…
Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater Cleveland.
Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 102 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 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 JUMPSTART 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 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
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 Deaconess 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.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% 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.