· Public charity
Healthy Lakewood Foundation
To advance programs, policies and practices that inspire a lakewood community in which health and wellness are reflected in all aspects of life.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $356k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKEWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER | $85,000 |
| THE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION | $66,300 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF GREATER | $40,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY PRACTICE | $40,000 |
| LAKEWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $35,405 |
| THE LAND | $30,000 |
| LAKEWOODALIVE | $27,000 |
| UNDER 5000 | $21,500 |
| JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETYHEALING | $20,000 |
| ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC | $17,500 |
| HAUS OF TRANSCENDENT | $17,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GRTR OHIO | $15,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BARTON CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY | $12,500 |
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, $601k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- TLTHE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $321k · revenue +103% · 27% of their budget
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +49%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $160k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- GCGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION)one grant, 2020 · $58k · revenue -58%
- OOhioGuidestonegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $56k · revenue +40%
- EDEMERALD DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMIC NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +34%
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Providing Biblical, life-affirming resources and services to those affected by unplanned pregnancy.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
The west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To operate as a community development corporation with the goal to transform disadvantaged neighborhoods through five primary areas: physical revitalization, social revitalization, economic development, neighborhood safety, and leadership…
Greater cleveland neighborhood centers association forges key partnerships with community based organizations to support educational programs and connect with residents and promote more
Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakewood Community Services Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trials for Hope Inc. 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 43 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 37 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 LAKEWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD ALIVEINC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds BARTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST 117 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT & READ GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds HAUS OF TRANSCENDENT ↗
- Who funds The Land Cle ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR KIDS OF WESTLAKE OH ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds EMERALD DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMIC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
- Who funds HELP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds TRIALS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD YOUNG FILMMAKERS ACADEMY ↗
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 · Community West Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Three Arches Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Woodruff Foundation · The Sk Wellman 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 Healthy Lakewood 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.
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