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Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds at a glance

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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.

$485k
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$99k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$958kPhilanthropy$487kHuman Services$430kHealth$412kEducation$373kFood & Nutrition$245kYouth Development$143kEmployment$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k57 grants · $230k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
STAN HYWET HALL AND GARDENS$10,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER$10,000
METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
IDEASTREAM$10,000
CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION$10,000
NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC$10,000
CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND$10,000
CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$10,000
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELP FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $3k → 13%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $5k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $5k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $5k → 17%ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $10k → 17%ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $10k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $3k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $13k → 17%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 172 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

172
48

Total granted

$3.2M
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+9%

Still filing today

41%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +25%
  • SH
    STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • I
    IDEASTREAM
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -5%
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -36%
  • MD
    MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -53%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
Digitalc

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

Community Improvement
4
Diabetes Partnership of Cleveland

Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.

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5
The Cleveland Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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8
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
9
Greater Cleveland Sports Commission

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.

Unclassified
10
Point Park University

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…

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11
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
12
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland; 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.
04the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/91
Grantees still filing
58/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASE WESTERN RESERVE: $175,000 · OtherCASE WESTERN RESERVEJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $101,000 · OtherHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER: $86,000 · OtherMANDEL JEWISH COMMUNTY CENTER: $82,000 · Other+144 more: $2,003,750 · Other+144 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $280,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDE…CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCLEVELAND H…UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …+3 more: $20,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSTAN HYWET …The Musical Arts Association: $32,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical…Playhouse Square Foundation: $31,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse S…Greater Akron Musical Association Inc: $29,500 · Arts & CultureGreater Akr…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $28,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND M…GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT LAKES…WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RES…BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBECK CENTER…ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND: $23,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE TH…CITYMUSIC CLEVELAND INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCITYMUSIC C…THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AN…THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELA…CHAMBERFEST CLEVELAND: $13,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $23,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthOhioGuidestone: $27,000 · HealthINMOTION: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $25,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $15,000 · HealthCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $15,000 · HealthJENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS: $13,500 · HealthLIFEACT: $10,500 · HealthMILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES: $8,500 · HealthEmpowering Epilepsy: $7,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $22,000 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $21,000 · EducationTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $20,000 · EducationBaldwin Wallace University: $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $15,000 · EducationCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $12,000 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $10,000 · EducationCREATIVE EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · EducationBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $5,000 · EducationCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $45,000 · Human ServicesELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $20,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $15,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesMONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $25,000 · Food & NutritionROSE CENTERS FOR AGING WELL LLC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,447,750Philanthropy$370,000Arts & Culture$365,000Health$201,500Education$125,000Human Services$105,500Food & Nutrition$78,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $280,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKELAND FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $40,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Akron Musical Association Inc: $29,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINMOTION: $25,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND: $23,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMUSIC CLEVELAND INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $15,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMBERFEST CLEVELAND: $13,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $13,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • 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 SHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds INMOTION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Cleveland Foundat…The Char and Chuck Fo…The George Gund Found…Jewish Federation of …The Louise H & David …The Reinberger Founda…Dominion Energy Chari…John P Murphy Foundat…Higley Fund of the Cl…The Sk Wellman Founda…The Albert B & Audrey…The Lozick Family Fou…
The Cleveland FoundationOH80.1× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 228 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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