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Dorn Family 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $45,000 |
| BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $30,000 |
| THE CENTERS | $25,000 |
| LAKE ERIE NATURE & SCIENCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| PINE RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOODBANK | $20,000 |
| CITY MISSION | $20,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RICHFIELD HERITAGE | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE GREAT LAKES | $10,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 85% 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.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- BCBECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS7× · 2019–2025 · $220k · revenue +13%
- LELAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $158k · revenue +76%
- HOHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $113k · revenue +28%
Funded once
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +39%- YHYOUTH HAVEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +352%
- PEPALMETTO ELEMENTARY PTO INCone grant, 2021 · $15k
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 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,…
Western reserve historical society preserves and uses its collections, historic sites, and museums to inspire people to discover the american experience by exploring the tangible history of northeast ohio.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
Museum
To preserve, develop, and share historic dunham tavern and its campus as an educational and cultural resource. we aspire for dunham tavern as an institution to provide an urban green space in midtown cleveland, and to return the tavern to…
Born from the collision of rhythm & blues, country, and gospel, rock & roll is a spirit that is inclusive and ever-changing. the rock & roll hall of fame celebrates the sound of youth culture and honors the artists whose music connects us…
To discover, to collect, to preserve and to interpret materials and objects germane to the history of Cleveland and the North Shore of Oneida Lake, NY, to sponsor writings, education, publications, and to promote public interest in…
The carousel society serves to restore the 1910 grand euclid beach carousel to be a functional, self-sustaining regional historic and cultural landmark for enjoyment and programmatic community development through its placement in the…
To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.
The mission of the Akron History Center is to create an enduring long-lasting free museum-quality exhibit about Akrons history that inspires residents educates young people and welcomes visitors to our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beck Center for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Crowell Hilaka. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 34 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 BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Christian Home Inc ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds Historic Manassas Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CROWELL HILAKA ↗
- Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Freedom Museum 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 Reinberger Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Dorn 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.
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% 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.
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