· Private foundation
Frances & Jane S Lausche Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SLOVENIAN CULTURAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| ST MARY CHURCH BLESSED MOTHER | $5,000 |
| SLOVENSKA PRISTAVA | $5,000 |
| OUR LADY OF LOURDES SHRINE | $4,000 |
| CUYAHOGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CLEVELAND | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| CLEVELAND SIGHT BANK | $2,000 |
| VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES | $2,000 |
| ST VITUS CHURCH HALL | $2,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WESTERN RESERVE | $2,000 |
| ST VITUS CHURCH HALL | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $40k) 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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +7%
- VGVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +6%
- RTROSE-MARY THE JOHANNA GRASSELLI REHABILITATION&EDUCATION CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- BHBENEDICTINE HIGH SCHOOL INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $3k
- TGTHE GATHERING PLACEone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +5%
- SMSlovenian Museum and Archives Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +156%
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.
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…
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
We empower people on their journey to independence through the sale of donated goods, which supports employment programs and family services.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
Cleveland hearing and speech is the premier provider of hearing, speech-language and deaf services, education, and advocacy helping people connect through communication, regardless of ability to pay.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Slovenian Museum and Archives Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 27 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 SLOVENSKA PRISTAVA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ROSE-MARY THE JOHANNA GRASSELLI REHABILITATION&EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds Slovenian Museum and Archives Inc ↗
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 Swagelok Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Frances & Jane S Lausche 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.
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.