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Edwin D Northrup II Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$218kHuman Services$176kArts & Culture$162kEducation$138kHousing & Shelter$79kYouth Development$72kReligion$38kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY MISSION$20,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
PROVIDENCE HOUSE$15,000
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC$15,000
LAND STUDIO$15,000
SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC$13,103
BLOSSOM HILL INC$12,500
CENTER FOR ARTS- INSPIRED LEARNING$10,000
PARMA ANIMAL SHELTER$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 5%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $8k → 17%WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $3k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $10k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $5k → 17%BLOSSOM HILL INC: $13k → 17%BLOSSOM HILL INC: $13k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $15k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $15k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $13k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $15k → 17%CENTER FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $15k → 17%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $3k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $6k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $5k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $3k → 17%BLOSSOM HILL INC: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$475k · 32 repeat orgs$546k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
62

Total granted

$475k
$478k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

78%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • BH
    BLOSSOM HILL INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $33k · revenue +32%
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $23k · revenue +25%
  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +40%
  • SD
    SMART DEVELOPMENT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -28%
  • TS
    THE SCULPTURE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cleveland Leadership Center

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…

Education
2
Community Learning Center Institute

Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.

Education
3
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
4
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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5
Literary Cleveland

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.

Education
6
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
7
Central Community House

Central community house (cch) is a comprehensive, neighborhood-based community center that has been serving the near east and south side neighborhoods of columbus, ohio since 1936. rather than specifically address one problem or social…

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8
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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9
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

See schedule o.legal aid's mission is to secure justice, equity and access to opportunity for and with people who have low incomes through passionate legal representation and advocacy for systematic change.

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10
Cleveland Mediation Center

Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…

Crime & Legal
11
Neighborhood Progress Inc

Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…

Community Improvement
12
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Cleveland Inc

The mission of united cerebral palsy is to empower children and adults with disabilities to advance their independence, productivity and inclusion in the community.

Health

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArts Education and Advancem…Senior Affordable HousingEducational Scholarship Fou…Arts & Culture OrganizationsManufacturing Industry Asso…Community Arts Performance …Labor Union FundsFamily FoundationsFaith-Based Community Assis…Community Healthcare SystemsCharter Schools K-8Cleveland Neighborhood Deve…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%4%5–10yr16%9%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr19%33%35–55yr19%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%3%5–10yr16%7%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr19%33%35–55yr19%35%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
13%
1,299/9,742

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.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 99 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
51/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY — $30,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCITY MISSION — $29,500 · OtherCITY MISSIONPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC — $20,000 · OtherCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH — $20,000 · OtherLAWRENCE SCHOOL — $17,280 · Other+49 more — $375,268 · Other+49 moreBLOSSOM HILL INC — $32,500 · Human ServicesBLOSSOM HILL INCST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICA…UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INCSEEDS OF LITERACY — $20,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF LITERACYMERRICK HOUSE — $15,000 · Human ServicesMERRICK HOUSEThe Centers for Families and Children — $15,000 · Human ServicesThe Centers for Families …HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RE…NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesNEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDEN…WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $14,816 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTERSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS — $13,103 · Human ServicesSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KID…WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE — $10,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $18,500 · Human Services+3 moreCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MU…THE SCULPTURE CENTER — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SCULPTUR…Kulture Kids — $15,000 · Arts & CultureKulture KidsTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAN…CLEVELAND BALLET — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND BA…CITYMUSIC CLEVELAND INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCITYMUSIC CL…FOLUKE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureFOLUKE CULTU…ART IN ACTION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureKARAMU HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $14,093 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $12,500 · HealthMILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES — $12,500 · HealthNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND — $10,000 · HealthLIFEACT — $10,000 · HealthHOPEWELL — $5,000 · HealthCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $5,000 · HealthWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $15,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $14,090 · EducationCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING — $13,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $5,000 · EducationBaldwin Wallace University — $5,000 · EducationSCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC — $2,500 · EducationLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY — $17,500 · ReligionCleveland Christian Home Inc — $15,000 · ReligionGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $6,596 · Housing & ShelterTHE METANOIA PROJECT — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$492,048Human Services$226,419Arts & Culture$115,500Health$69,093Education$54,590Religion$32,500Housing & Shelter$31,596

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBLOSSOM HILL INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL — $17,280 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $15,505 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMART DEVELOPMENT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMERRICK HOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCleveland Christian Home Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKulture Kids — $15,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $14,816 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $14,093 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $14,090 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING — $13,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES — $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio — $12,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCLEVELAND BALLET — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFEACT — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMUSIC CLEVELAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $9,624 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEARNING FOR LIFE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM — $8,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetJOSEPHS HOME — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGirls In Gear Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $6,596 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $5,495 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetART IN ACTION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Robert H Reakirt Fdn …The Reinberger Founda…The Char and Chuck Fo…The George Gund Found…Higley Fund of the Cl…Dominion Energy Chari…The Louise H & David …Community West Founda…Jewish Federation of …The Helen F & Louis S…The Abington Foundati…
The Cleveland FoundationOH84.2× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · The Reinberger Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · Community West Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Abington 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 Edwin D Northrup II Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
38report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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