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Huron Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$214kEducation$100kHealth$91kCivil Rights$38kReligion$23kYouth Development$10kScience & Tech$5kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$949k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY$15,000
EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$10,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN$7,500
JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME$7,500
LIFEACT$7,500
WOMEN OF COLOR FOUNDATION$6,000
ARTS REACHING KIDS$5,000
REACH OUT AND READ INC$3,600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SAINT JOSEPH'S HOUSE: $10k → 6%ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC: $15k → 13%JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME: $8k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $15k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $15k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $12k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$355k · 8 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$355k
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
0%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EC
    EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +126%
  • The Ohio University Foundation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +97%
  • L
    LIFEACT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Centers for Families and Children
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -41%
  • AS
    ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +66%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -96%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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2
Every Child Succeeds

Every Child Succeeds is based on a strong scientific foundation demonstrating that a nurturing and stimulating environment in the first 1,000 days of life promotes optimal brain growth, cognitive development, psycho-social adjustment,…

Human Services
3
Sjo Kids Inc

Newpath child & family solutions (formerly st. joseph orphanage) is a comprehensive behavioral health and educational treatment agency that helps children and their families on the road to recovery and success by igniting hope and changing…

Human Services
4
Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc

A trauma-informed Healthcare Organization, CHNK Behavioral Health creates Holistic Partnerships for Health and Wellness that are inclusive, innovative and inspiring.

Human Services
5
The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio

Creating lasting results that strengthen families and our community by guiding individuals from infancy to independence through comprehensive education, behavioral, and health services.

Human Services
6
OhioGuidestone

To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.

Health
7
St Joseph's Hospital Health Center

We, st. joseph's hospital health center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's hospital health center is a member of st.…

Health
8
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron

To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.

Health
9
Circle Health Services

Circle Health fights for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential.

—
10
Cleveland Christian Home Inc

The Cleveland Christian Home, Inc. exists to be a haven of hope for children, youth, and families struggling with mental illness, abuse, and neglect in Northeast Ohio.

Religion
11
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Centers for Families and Children; the most unlike its peers is Davids Challenge Incorporated Yound Achievers Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $85,250 · Human ServicesEAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTE…The Centers for Families and Children: $15,000 · Human ServicesThe Centers for Families and Chil…ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INCST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $12,300 · Human ServicesST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTERSt Josephs House Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSt Josephs House IncJOSEPHS HOME: $7,500 · Human ServicesJOSEPH HOUSE OF CLEVELAND INC: $40,000 · OtherJOSEPH HOUSE OF CLEVELAND I…MALACHI HOUSE INC: $30,000 · OtherMALACHI HOUSE INCST MARY'S HOME HEALTH: $10,000 · OtherST MARY'S HOME HEALTHHANNA PERKINS CENTER FOR: $10,000 · OtherHANNA PERKINS CENTER FORFOREST HILL CHURCH: $7,500 · OtherFOREST HILL CHURCHHorizon Montessori School: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherCENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN: $5,000 · OtherARTS REACHING KIDS INC: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $2,750 · OtherThe Ohio University Foundation: $85,000 · EducationThe Ohio University F…WOMEN OF COLOR FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationWOMEN OF COLOR FOUNDA…REACH OUT AND READ INC: $3,600 · EducationLIFEACT: $42,500 · HealthLIFEACTHANNA PERKINS SCHOOL: $25,000 · HealthHANNA PERKINS SC…MEDWISH MEDWORKS: $5,000 · HealthMEDWISH MEDWORKSNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND: $37,500 · Community ImprovementBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $15,000 · ReligionDAVIDS CHALLENGE INCORPORATED YOUND ACHIEVERS PROGRAM: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGASP GUARDIANS ADVOCATING CHILD SAFETY AND PROTECTION: $1,500 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$145,050Other$120,750Education$94,600Health$72,500Community Improvement$37,500Religion$15,000Youth Development$10,000Crime & Legal$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $85,250 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $85,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEACT: $42,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND: $37,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHANNA PERKINS SCHOOL: $25,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $12,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPHS HOME: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN OF COLOR FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHorizon Montessori School: $5,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEDWISH MEDWORKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGASP GUARDIANS ADVOCATING CHILD SAFETY AND PROTECTION: $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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 Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…Community West Founda…Woodruff FoundationHigley Fund of the Cl…The George Gund Found…Thatcher Family FundThe Reuter FoundationThe Reinberger Founda…The Cleveland Clinic …The Cleveland Clinic …The Char and Chuck Fo…
The Cleveland FoundationOH28.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Community West Foundation · Woodruff Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Thatcher Family Fund · The Reuter Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Huron Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Huron Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Huron Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Huron 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.

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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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