· Private foundation
Ida B Wells Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSE OF REFUGE INC | $1,050 |
| NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,000 |
| OHIO CITY INC | $1,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYINTERRELIGIOUS TASK FORCE | $250 |
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- LWLEGAL WORKS INC4× · 2019–2023 · $4k · revenue +386%
- NONORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS2× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +108%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- HDHOW DO WE SUSTAINone grant, 2022 · $2k
- RRENOVAREone grant, 2023 · $2k
- NONORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +4%
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
The mission of Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Inc., (the League) is a community-based organization focused on eliminating the racial, economic, and societal barriers that prevent Black Americans and other underrepresented/underserved…
Occd's purpose is to develop, implement and improve federal, state and local programs for community development and to develop and improve the professional standards and practices of all phases of public administration which are related…
To advocate and educate on behalf of our members to increase the quality and supply of affordable housing in the state of ohio, and to provide our members with current legislative awareness, a forum for voicing legislative and programmatic…
To promote the common good and general welfare of ohioans.
To coordinate efforts of corporations in the State of Ohio to increase the amount of purchases of goods and services from minority owned companies; to provide educational, managerial and technical assistance to minority companies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Americans Making Immigrants Safe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 LEGAL WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ST CLAIR SUPERIOR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO CITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA THREADS INC ↗
- Who funds Americans Making Immigrants Safe ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Community West Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ida B Wells 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.
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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