· Private foundation
George Codrington Fdnhirtlena
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $617k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND PUBLIC MARKET CORPORATION | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INC | $90,000 |
| THE MUSIC ARTS ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND | $32,500 |
| THE DIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $31,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE | $30,000 |
| ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME | $27,500 |
| CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND | $25,000 |
| KARAMU HOUSE | $25,000 |
| IDEASTREAM | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO | $25,000 |
| ESPERANZA INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
- FFFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO5× · 2019–2023 · $400k · revenue +13%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association6× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +39%
- UCUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED6× · 2019–2024 · $274k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- BBBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +41%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND COVID-19 RAPID RESPONSE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- NONORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMYone grant, 2022 · $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.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
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.
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
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.
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…
The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…
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…
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…
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.
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Esperanza Ny Inc. 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 47 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 107 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 FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds KARAMU HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC MARKET CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds DIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO 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 George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Nord Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · John P Murphy Foundation · Third Federal 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 George Codrington Fdnhirtlena 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.