· Private foundation
Helen C Cole 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $317k
- $250k+1 grant · $707k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $707,273 |
| SCRIPPS COLLEGE | $63,377 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $63,377 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $63,377 |
| LAUREL SCHOOL | $63,377 |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART | $63,377 |
| CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER | $43,377 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $43,377 |
| CHURCH OF THE COVENANT | $43,377 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $43,377 |
| VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES | $43,377 |
| BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE | $43,377 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $43,377 |
| CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT | $43,377 |
| CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER | $43,377 |
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 (FY20–24, $394k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2020–2024 · $297k · revenue +23%
- TCTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART5× · 2020–2024 · $297k · revenue +34%
- SCScripps College5× · 2020–2024 · $297k · revenue +64%
Funded once
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.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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 o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…
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 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…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Institute of Art and the most unlike its peers is The Musical Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds Scripps College ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
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 · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Mary and Oliver Emerson Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · A Malachi Mixon III & Barbara W Mixon Foundation · The Gries Family Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · The Jochum-Moll Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Lozick 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 Helen C Cole 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.
- Wellesley College — 1% 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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