· Private foundation
Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $230k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $99,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE | $25,000 |
| MANDEL JEWISH COMMUNTY CENTER | $15,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER | $10,000 |
| IDEASTREAM | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| STAN HYWET HALL AND GARDENS | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $8,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
172 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2025, 109 since wound down; 7 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- SHSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +23%
- IIDEASTREAM5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +18%
- CHCLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELANDone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -5%
- USUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INCone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -36%
- MDMONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -53%
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.
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.
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.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
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 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…
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The mission of the greater cleveland sports commission is to measurably improve the economy of greater cleveland and enrich the community by attracting, creating, managing and enhancing significant sporting and competitive events.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Western Reserve Historical Society. 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 47 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 228 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Akron Musical Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds INMOTION ↗
- Who funds SHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Reinberger Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Lozick Family 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 Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.