· Private foundation
Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k68 grants · $176k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $772k
- $50k–250k31 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $450,000 |
| ASHBROOK CENTER FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS | $160,000 |
| METROHEALTH FOUNDATION - FES | $150,000 |
| JULIE BILLART SCHOOLS | $130,000 |
| BENEDICTINE HIGH SCHOOL | $116,500 |
| CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN | $101,000 |
| NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FDN (VA) | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOR RELATIONS RESEARCH (VA) | $100,000 |
| THE 22 PROJECT | $100,000 |
| COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $80,250 |
| CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER | $80,000 |
| FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $77,500 |
| MAGNET | $75,000 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL | $75,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — across the US and around the world.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the 990 filings.
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 +7% for the ones you funded once.
138 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $574k 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
CITY YEAR INC5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +4%- CCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $426k · revenue +38%
THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC - DIABETES NAMINGone grant, 2020 · $900k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $250k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
See schedule othe democracy collaborative was established in 2000 to advance understanding of democracy for the 21st century and to promote emerging strategies and innovations in community development that enhance democratic life. in…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dream On Foundation. 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 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
115 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. 115 of the 218 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 Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds THE 22 PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Vatican Observatory Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOR RELATIONS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds FLAT ROCK HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION CONSORTIUM 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 Lozick Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Catherine L & Edward a Lozick Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · Murphy 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 Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust 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.
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