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Elyria Charities Inc

Elyria charities provides financial support to educational and health organizations throughout northeast ohio.

$505k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$577kHealth$209kRecreation & Sports$167kHuman Services$118kArts & Culture$114kYouth Development$55kHousing & Shelter$38kAnimals$10k
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 30 grants below total $489,165 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $505,015 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,850 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $348k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$11,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE$100,000
ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS$35,000
ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS$25,000
COUNCIL FOR A STRONG OHIO$25,000
STUARTS OPERA HOUSE$20,000
OBERLINKIDS COMM COLLABORATIVE$20,000
THE CENTERS$20,000
EDWINS LEADERSHIP PROG AND REST INSTITUTE$20,000
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD$20,000
CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER$15,000
WOMENS SAFE INC THE GREEN HOUSE$15,000
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INTEGRITY$15,000
AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$15,000
AMHERST EXEMPTED WILLAGE SCHOOL$12,000
THE DEPUTIES CLUB$11,000
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 (FY18–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NAOS: $10k → 16%EDWINS LEADERSHIP PROG AND REST INSTITUTE: $20k → 17%APPLESEED COMM HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 11%THE CENTERS: $20k → 17%CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH: $10k → 17%THE CENTERS: $15k → 17%OBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR: $20k → 13%CLEVE SIGHT CENTER: $15k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $15k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $10k → 17%CLEVE SIGHT CENTER: $10k → 17%CLEVE SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$873k · 15 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
14

Total granted

$873k
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+7%

Still filing today

87%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CS
    CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND
    5× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +37%
  • KN
    KENDAL NORTHERN OHIO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +176%
  • SC
    SOUTHWEST CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INTEGRITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • OE
    OBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • SE
    SENECA EAST LOCAL SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -28%

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
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
2
Columbus Early Learning Centers

Columbus early learning centers (celc) has over 130 years of history providing high quality, affordable early learning and childcare in central ohio. this rich history places celc amongst the oldest early childcare programs in the country.…

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3
School Choice Ohio Inc

The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.

Education
4
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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5
Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children With Disabilities

The ohio coalition for the education of children with disabilities is a collaboration of parents, professionals, and partners advocating for children with disabilities to receive the educational services, experiences, and supports they…

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6
Cincinnati Early Learning Centers Inc

The organization operates and provides quality childcare in a nurturing and learning environment in multiple locations.

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7
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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8
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
9
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
10
Digitalc

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

Community Improvement
11
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Society for the Blind and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of North East Ohio. 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 backsteadySenior Care and Hospice Ser…Healthcare Systems and Foun…Social Services & Crisis Su…Early Childhood Education C…Grantmaking FoundationsRegional Community Developm…Youth Development & SupportResidential Recovery & Supp…Arts Education & Cultural C…
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 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%18%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr16%35%35–55yr21%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr21%42%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/45
the rest of the field
12%
3,407/27,513

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

33 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. 33 of the 45 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
18/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Elyria City Schools — $391,465 · OtherElyria City SchoolsCouncil for a Strong America — $40,000 · OtherCouncil for a Strong AmericaCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER — $40,000 · OtherCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTERCITY OF ELYRIA — $35,148 · OtherWOMENSAFE INC — $30,000 · Other+19 more — $197,754 · Other+19 moreCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND — $65,000 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND SOCI…The Centers for Families and Children — $42,500 · Human ServicesThe Centers fo…EDWINS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesEDWINS FOUNDAT…OBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesOBERLIN EARLY …NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST OHIO…APPLESEED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesAPPLESEED COMM…NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsNEIGHBORHO…LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING T…SOUTHWEST CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INTEGRITY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSTUARTS OPERA HOUSE — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTalespinner Childrens Theatre Inc — $9,000 · Arts & CultureArt Sparks — $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND — $5,000 · Arts & CultureKENDAL NORTHERN OHIO — $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $15,000 · HealthBeech Brook — $10,000 · HealthDAILY DOSE OF READING — $25,160 · EducationCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK — $15,000 · EducationCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING — $13,680 · EducationREAD FOR LITERACY INC — $8,000 · EducationECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $37,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$734,367Human Services$167,500Recreation & Sports$120,000Arts & Culture$90,000Health$75,000Education$61,840Housing & Shelter$37,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND — $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKENDAL NORTHERN OHIO — $50,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children — $42,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INTEGRITY — $40,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetCouncil for a Strong America — $40,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $37,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTUARTS OPERA HOUSE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDAILY DOSE OF READING — $25,160 over 3y, 10% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $22,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDWINS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL K00039 ELYRIA KIWANIS CLUB OF ELYRIA OHIO — $15,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING — $13,680 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREHABILITATION CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAPPLESEED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeech Brook — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTalespinner Childrens Theatre Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE LAKELAND FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREAD FOR LITERACY INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetArt Sparks — $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSISTER JEROME'S SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Ohio Childrens Founda…The Cleveland Foundat…Firstenergy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Dominion Energy Chari…The Abington Foundati…The Stocker FoundationThe Char and Chuck Fo…The George Gund Found…Thomas H White Fdn TaTreu Mart FundCavaliers Youth Found…
Ohio Childrens FoundationOH34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ohio Childrens Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Community Foundation of Lorain County · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · Treu Mart Fund · Cavaliers Youth 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 Elyria Charities Inc 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%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report 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 45 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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