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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.

$536k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$85,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$30M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Healthy Lakewood Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$521k13%
FY202418$392k6%
FY202320$380k35%
FY202221$493k71%
FY20217$193k29%
FY20208$335kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$404kHealth$366kPhilanthropy$336kCrime & Legal$280kHuman Services$227kEducation$191kHousing & Shelter$133kPublic Benefit$83kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lakewood Community Services Center Inc$379,15565%
The Lakewood Foundation$320,730527%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland$215,00060%
Neighborhood Health Care Inc$160,00040%
Lakewood Aliveinc$105,00055%
Asian Services in Action Inc$95,00060%
City of Lakewood$89,8823n/a
Lakewood City School District$82,6754n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of Cleveland$60,00030%
Journey Center for Safety and Healing$60,00031%
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All grantees of Healthy Lakewood Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lakewood Community Services Center Inc$379,15565%
The Lakewood Foundation$320,730527%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland$215,00060%
Neighborhood Health Care Inc$160,00040%
Lakewood Aliveinc$105,00055%
Asian Services in Action Inc$95,00060%
City of Lakewood$89,8823n/a
Lakewood City School District$82,6754n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of Cleveland$60,00030%
Journey Center for Safety and Healing$60,00031%
Gmiluth Chasodim (The Hebrew Free Loan Association)$57,50015%
OhioGuidestone$56,03810%
Youth Opportunities Unlimited$50,00020%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio$50,00030%
Barton Center Inc$46,50037%
West 117 Foundation Inc$41,65028%
Haus of Transcendent$40,000317%
Reach Out & Read Greater Cleveland$40,00047%
The Land Cle$30,0001n/a
Connecting for Kids of Westlake Oh$27,50034%
Lakewood Public Library$26,5004n/a
The Center for Community Solutions$25,00030%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$24,7003n/a
The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland$24,50031%
Presbytery of the Western Reserve$20,7003n/a
Emerald Development & Economic Network$20,00010%
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center$17,50020%
Building Hope in the City$12,5001n/a
Help Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Near Westside MultiService Corp$10,0001n/a
Trials for Hope Inc$10,0001n/a
Lgbtq Community Health and Wellness Foundation$9,0001n/a
Lakewood Young Filmmakers Academy$7,00019%
Sciotoville Christian Church$5,2501n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Healthy Lakewood Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLakewood Community Services Center Inc: $379,155 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetThe Lakewood Foundation: $320,730 over 5y, 27% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cleveland: $215,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNeighborhood Health Care Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLakewood Aliveinc: $105,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetAsian Services in Action Inc: $95,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Cleveland: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJourney Center for Safety and Healing: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGmiluth Chasodim (The Hebrew Free Loan Association): $57,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $56,038 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Opportunities Unlimited: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater Ohio: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBarton Center Inc: $46,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetWest 117 Foundation Inc: $41,650 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetHaus of Transcendent: $40,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetReach Out & Read Greater Cleveland: $40,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetConnecting for Kids of Westlake Oh: $27,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetThe Center for Community Solutions: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland: $24,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEmerald Development & Economic Network: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCleveland Rape Crisis Center: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHelp Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLakewood Young Filmmakers Academy: $7,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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 Cleveland FoundationOH41.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Healthy Lakewood Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Healthy Lakewood 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.

About Healthy Lakewood Foundation

How much does Healthy Lakewood Foundation give?
Healthy Lakewood Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $536,405 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Healthy Lakewood Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (17%), Health (16%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are Healthy Lakewood Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lakewood Community Services Center Inc ($379k), The Lakewood Foundation ($321k), Legal Aid Society of Cleveland ($215k).
Does Healthy Lakewood Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Healthy Lakewood Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Community West Foundation, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return.
Where is Healthy Lakewood Foundation based?
Healthy Lakewood Foundation is based in OH.

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 37 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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