· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $317k
- $250k+1 grant · $707k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $707,273 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $63,377 |
| LAUREL SCHOOL | $63,377 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $63,377 |
| SCRIPPS COLLEGE | $63,377 |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART | $63,377 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $43,377 |
| CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER | $43,377 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $43,377 |
| BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE | $43,377 |
| CHURCH OF THE COVENANT | $43,377 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $43,377 |
| CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT | $43,377 |
| VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES | $43,377 |
| CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER | $43,377 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen C Cole Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen C Cole Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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