· Private foundation
Disanto Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $542k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV | $224,100 |
| MAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL | $110,575 |
| Individual grant recipient | $102,500 |
| ST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL | $54,664 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BENEDICTINE HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| FIRST TEE CLEVELAND | $25,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARSHIP FDN | $15,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FILM COMMISSION | $10,000 |
| ONE PERCENTAGE FL ATHLETIC INC | $10,000 |
| EDGE TACTICAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CH OF THE GESU | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 20 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k 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
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2024 · $234k · revenue +13%- TVTHE VETERANS AND FIRST RESPONDERS2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +14%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UHUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSone grant, 2022 · $50k
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSIONone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +17%
- COCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
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.
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 sports event development fund supports the greater cleveland sports commission and its mission to measurably improve the economy of greater cleveland and enrich the community by attracting, creating, managing and enhancing significant…
The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.
Business association mobilizing private, civic, and public leadership, expertise, and resources to accelerate growth and prosperity across the region.
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,…
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.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…
The cincinnati usa convention & visitors bureau is an aggressive sales, marketing, and service organization. our primary responsibility is to positively impact the region's area economy through convention, tradeshow and visitor…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Rowing Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Veterans and First Responders. 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 31 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) — 0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 55 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 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE VETERANS AND FIRST RESPONDERS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds LIFEACT ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Canterbury Heritage Foundation Co ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ITALY REDEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
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 Lozick Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Veale Foundation · The Howley Foundation · Lincoln Electric Fdn Pfdn · John P Murphy Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Dewine Family Foundation Inc · The Covia 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 Disanto Family 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.