· Private foundation
Faye Kaplan Charitable Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JDN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER | $8,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $5,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE | $3,500 |
| CLEVELAND HTS HIGH SCH FDN | $3,500 |
| MANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED | $2,000 |
| CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIV | $2,000 |
| CLEVELAND PLAYHOUSE | $1,800 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $1,800 |
| ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND | $1,650 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION | $1,100 |
| RISE UP FIGHT MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $1,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $1,000 |
| A PLACE 4 ME COLLABORATIVE | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 15 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TMThe Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +16%
- TCTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +27%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TCTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +35%
- JHJOSIAHS HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +2%
- HIHEIFER INTERNATIONALone grant, 2023 · $180
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.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
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.
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.
To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
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…
Center of jewish life for undergraduate, graduate and professional students who attend 11 colleges and universities in greater cleveland. provides the means for students to celebrate their judaism through enriching cultural, educational,…
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
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.
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.
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Society for the Blind and the most unlike its peers is The United Jewish Cemeteries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 114 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF LITERACY ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE INK ↗
- Who funds BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP ROOSEVELT FIREBIRD ↗
- Who funds The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
- Who funds FutureHeights Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds REACHING HEIGHTS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds A PLACE 4 ME COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
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 Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Treu Mart Fund · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel 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 Faye Kaplan Charitable Foundation 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.
- The Community Builders Inc — 4% 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.