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George Codrington Fdnhirtlena at a glance

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George Codrington Fdnhirtlena

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$940k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.8MEducation$949kCommunity Improvement$639kPhilanthropy$337kPublic Benefit$297kHealth$245kFood & Nutrition$227kHuman Services$126kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $617k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $315k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND PUBLIC MARKET CORPORATION$125,000
UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INC$90,000
CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT$50,000
THE MUSIC ARTS ASSOCIATION$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
KARAMU HOUSE$25,000
CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS$25,000
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND$25,000
ESPERANZA INC$25,000
IDEASTREAM$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$25,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%ORGANIZE OHIO: $15k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 72 repeat orgs$771k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
30

Total granted

$4.2M
$576k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+26%

Still filing today

79%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FF
    FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO
    5× · 2019–2023 · $400k · revenue +13%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    6× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +39%
  • UC
    UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED
    6× · 2019–2024 · $274k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • BB
    BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +41%
  • CW
    CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • CW
    CASE WESTERN RESERVE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.

Education
4
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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5
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
6
Cleveland Arts Prize

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Point Park University

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…

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9
Greater Cleveland Sports Commission

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.

Unclassified
10
Greater Columbus Arts Council

Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.

Arts & Culture
11
The Ohio Environmental Council

To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.

Environment
12
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
56/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ESPERANZA INC: $85,000 · OtherESPERANZA INCPLAYHOUSE SQUARE: $85,000 · OtherPLAYHOUSE SQUARECLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · OtherCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: $60,000 · OtherCASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY (SCHOLARSHIP FUND): $55,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $101,750 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC+52 more: $1,067,685 · Other+52 moreThe Musical Arts Association: $310,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Associ…KARAMU HOUSE INC: $203,500 · Arts & CultureKARAMU HOUSE INCPlayhouse Square Foundation: $72,500 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Square Founda…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ARTCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NAT…THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $185,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $237,000 · EducationTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVE…BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $125,000 · EducationBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COM…COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $120,000 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CL…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE U…FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $90,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUG…DIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $61,000 · EducationDIVERSITY CENTER OF NO…CLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER: $60,000 · EducationCLEVELAND LEADERSHIP C…CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $52,500 · EducationCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationBaldwin Wallace University: $45,000 · EducationCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $40,000 · EducationTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $40,000 · Education+3 more: $26,750 · EducationFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $400,000 · Community ImprovementFUND FOR OUR ECONOM…UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $273,500 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY CIRCLE I…CLEVELAND PUBLIC MARKET CORPORATION: $125,000 · Community ImprovementCLEVELAND PUBLIC MA…NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementMIDTOWN CLEVELAND INC: $35,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $46,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $254,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $65,000 · PhilanthropyIDEASTREAM: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentOPEN DOORS INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $120,000 · HealthCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $30,000 · HealthHOPEWELL: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · Health
Other$1,529,435Arts & Culture$1,096,000Education$1,047,250Community Improvement$914,500Philanthropy$319,500Youth Development$192,500Health$175,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $400,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $310,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $273,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $254,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $237,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetKARAMU HOUSE INC: $203,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC MARKET CORPORATION: $125,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $125,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $101,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetESPERANZA INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $72,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $61,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES: $50,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $50,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHN HOUSING PARTNERS: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS: $40,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLAND STUDIO INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED: $35,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMIDTOWN CLEVELAND INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CLEVELAND PUBLIC MARKET CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES ↗
  • 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 MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER ↗
  • 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 STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The George Gund Found…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Cleveland Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…Dominion Energy Chari…The Kelvin & Eleanor …Jewish Federation of …The Nord Family Found…The Swagelok Foundati…The Louise H & David …John P Murphy Foundat…Third Federal Foundat…
The George Gund FoundationOH84.1× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George Codrington Fdnhirtlena funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Codrington Fdnhirtlena. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    36report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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