· Private foundation
Humble Heart-Gentle Soul Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,241,500 |
| LAKE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $1,035,346 |
| VILLA ANGELA ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL | $330,000 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $250,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MN | $250,000 |
| BEAT THE STREETS CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| ST BEDE THE VENERABLE | $100,000 |
| NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC | $100,000 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| CITY MISSION | $100,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOU | $100,000 |
| TRANSPLANT HOUSE OF CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISION | $60,000 |
| HOPE RECOVERY COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $735k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $866k 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
TRANSPLANT HOUSE OF CLEVELAND5× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +52%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +392%- CCCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND4× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- JHJOSEPHS HOMEone grant, 2024 · $175k · revenue 0%
- SVST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -49%
- RHREGINA HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +10%
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.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
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…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To 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 health care…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
See schedule oto provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. the organization is dedicated to living our mission and keeping…
The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation and the most unlike its peers is International Network of Hearts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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 43 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 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSPLANT HOUSE OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREETS CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE TINY LIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE RECOVERY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds I'M IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds REGINA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAKE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ED KEATING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds International Network of Hearts ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH UNION FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds FIRST GLANCE STUDENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ohio Baptist Camps ↗
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 · The Swagelok Foundation · Medwish Medworks · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Community West Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Arthur B McBride Sr 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 Humble Heart-Gentle Soul 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.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% 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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