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Emerald Development & Economic Network
Eden's mission is to provide housing solutions to people facing the challenges of housing insecurities and homelessness.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $2,181,594 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $36,059,569 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,877,975 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $242k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC | $1,543,489 |
| THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN | $320,030 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $242,195 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $31,874 |
| UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT | $30,764 |
| YWCA OF CLEVELAND | $13,242 |
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 (FY17–24, $11.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k 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
- MHMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +10%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO5× · 2020–2024 · $765k · revenue +42%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO4× · 2021–2024 · $404k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- EAEMERALD ALLIANCE VIII LPone grant, 2018 · $32k
- EAEMERALD ALLIANCE LPone grant, 2018 · $31k
- EAEMERALD ALLIANCE IX LPone grant, 2018 · $29k
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.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
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…
To provide treatment and prevention of substance abuse and related mental health problems for the residents of columbiana county and surrounding counties.
Serves as a safety net for those summit county residents who are most in need of behavioral health services as a result of severe and persistent mental illness the agency proveides comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective treatment,…
To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.
Compass helps individuals and families build better lives and a stronger community.
To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.
To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.
To provide mental health care to children, adults, and families of the fairfield county area and occasionally to other counties in the state of ohio
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is University Settlement Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
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: Woodruff Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · Community West Foundation · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Thatcher Family Fund · The Lozick Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · E S Prentiss Foundation-Ir
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 Emerald Development & Economic Network 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.
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