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Frank Hadley and Cornelia Root Ginn Foundation

The organization is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit, of and to carry out the charitable and educational functions of the cleveland foundation.

$168k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$177kHuman Services$76kPhilanthropy$75kYouth Development$52kEmployment$38kArts & Culture$35kCrime & Legal$33kEducation$31kReligion$10kOther$200k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $162,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $167,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $140k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC$10,000
YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED$10,000
BEECH BROOK$10,000
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$10,000
METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES$10,000
CLEVELAND CHRISTIAN HOME$10,000
LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE$10,000
CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER$10,000
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC$10,000
NEAR WEST SIDE MULTI-SERVICE CORPORATION DBA THE MAY DUGAN CENTER$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO$10,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CORNERSTONE ADVOCACY SERVICE: $9k → 11%CORNERSTONE ADVOCACY SERVICE: $8k → 11%CORNERSTONE ADVOCACY SERVICE: $8k → 11%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $8k → 17%CORNERSTONE ADVOCACY SERVICE: $8k → 11%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $8k → 17%NEAR WEST SIDE MULTI-SERVICE CORPORATION DBA THE MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%NEAR WEST SIDE MULTI-SERVICE CORPORATION DBA THE MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%NEAR WEST SIDE MULTI-SERVICE CORPORATION DBA THE MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$556k · 20 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
2

Total granted

$556k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationEmploymentArts & CultureOther

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

  • BB
    BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +92%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND
    4× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue +49%
  • TE
    TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • EB
    ELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -37%
  • HB
    HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +33%

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

04Your field

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.

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
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

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…

Philanthropy
3
Community Learning Center Institute

Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.

Education
4
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology

Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
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
7
Cleveland Mediation Center

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…

Crime & Legal
8
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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9
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
10
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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11
Lead Ohio

At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.

Education
12
Adoption Network Cleveland

Adoption network cleveland's mission is to connect and empower individuals, organizations, and communities impacted by adoption, kinship, and foster care, and we provide a source of healing for those in need.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Hathaway Brown School. 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 48 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%3%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr19%32%35–55yr19%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%1%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr19%37%35–55yr19%44%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
13%
1,299/9,787

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.

04the grantee network

31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
16/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $40,000 · OtherBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INCLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND — $37,500 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELANDESPERANZA INC — $30,000 · OtherESPERANZA INCHOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC — $30,000 · OtherHOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INCFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $15,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELANDCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER — $10,000 · OtherYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED — $10,000 · OtherJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING — $32,500 · OtherJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALINGSCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC — $14,000 · OtherCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $10,000 · OtherCleveland Christian Home Inc — $10,000 · OtherLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 · OtherSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES — $10,000 · Other+2 more — $14,500 · OtherCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $34,500 · HealthCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTE…Community Health NFP — $32,500 · HealthCommunity Health NFPSTELLA MARIS INC — $28,000 · HealthSTELLA MARIS INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $26,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREAT…NAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND — $25,500 · HealthNAMI-GREATER CLEVELANDBeech Brook — $20,000 · HealthBeech BrookTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION …Cornerstone Advocacy Service — $31,000 · Human ServicesCornerstone…Near Westside MultiService Corp — $30,000 · Human ServicesNear Westsi…FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $15,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONN…THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELA…OPEN DOORS INC — $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $37,500 · EmploymentTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE — $35,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$273,500Health$176,500Human Services$76,000Philanthropy$75,000Youth Development$51,500Employment$37,500Arts & Culture$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND — $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $37,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $34,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Health NFP — $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING — $32,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCornerstone Advocacy Service — $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetESPERANZA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTELLA MARIS INC — $28,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND — $25,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC — $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBeech Brook — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC — $14,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Christian Home Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Abington Foundati…The Cleveland Foundat…Thomas H White Fdn TaHigley Fund of the Cl…The Reinberger Founda…William J and Dorothy…United Way of Greater…The Char and Chuck Fo…The George Gund Found…Treu Mart FundThe Swagelok Foundati…Jewish Federation of …
The Abington FoundationOH43.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Abington Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · The Swagelok Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland

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 Frank Hadley and Cornelia Root Ginn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Frank Hadley and Cornelia Root Ginn Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Frank Hadley and Cornelia Root Ginn Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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