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J Harrington &Amp Marie Glidden Foundation

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.

$365k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.1MHuman Services$355kReligion$217kHealth$25kArts & Culture$9kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $299k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL$55,000
CLEVELAND METRO CATHOLIC SCHOOL$40,000
MAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL$32,000
ST JOSEPH ACADEMY$32,000
SAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
MAY DUGAN CENTER$20,000
WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER$20,000
MALACHI HOUSE$15,000
SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
PROVIDENCE HOUSE$15,000
ST PATRICK PARISH$15,000
ST COLMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$15,000
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$10,000
MAGNIFICAT$10,000
JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $25k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $25k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%WESTSIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $20k → 17%WESTSIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $20k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $20k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $15k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 23 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
4

Total granted

$1.7M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-1%

Still filing today

43%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WS
    WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +28%
  • John Carroll University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • MC
    METRO CATHOLIC PARISH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • TU
    THE UNITY SCHOOL LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -1%
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
University of Cleveland Preparatory School

Our mission is to prepare students for a college preparatory high school that will ensure success and graduation and acceptance into a four year college.

Education
2
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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3
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
4
Cleveland College Preparatory School

Our mission is to prepare students for a college preparatory high school that will ensure success and graduation from a four year college

Education
5
Community Learning Center Institute

Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.

Education
6
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
7
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
8
Cleveland Entrepreneurship Prep

The Prep Schools mission is to seek to provide a high quality, academically rigorous education for the college bound scholar. We empower our scholars to think critically, assume social responsibility, and serve for themselves and the…

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9
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
10
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
11
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
12
Mount St Joseph University

Mount st. joseph university is a catholic academic community grounded in the spiritual values and vision of its founders, the sisters of charity. the university educates its students through interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School; the most unlike its peers is The Unity School Llc. 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

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 29 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL: $235,000 · OtherST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOLST JOSEPH ACADEMY: $160,000 · OtherST JOSEPH ACADEMYMAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL: $143,000 · OtherMAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOLCLEVELAND METRO CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $110,000 · OtherCLEVELAND METRO CATHOLIC SCHOOLST PATRICK PARISH: $90,000 · OtherST PATRICK PARISHMALACHI HOUSE INC: $75,000 · OtherMALACHI HOUSE INCPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $75,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOUSE INCSAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $60,000 · OtherST COLMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $55,000 · OtherURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH: $45,000 · Other+9 more: $211,220 · Other+9 moreNear Westside MultiService Corp: $105,000 · Human ServicesNear Westside…WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE CAT…Saint Martin de Porres High School: $85,000 · EducationSaint Martin…John Carroll University: $50,000 · EducationJohn Carroll…URSULINE COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationURSULINE COL…THE UNITY SCHOOL LLC: $10,000 · EducationCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBusiness Advisers of Cleveland: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,309,220Human Services$205,000Education$195,000Health$20,000Philanthropy$10,000Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $105,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $85,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetURSULINE COLLEGE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITY SCHOOL LLC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE CLIFTON CLUB: $9,220 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBusiness Advisers of Cleveland: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
  • Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds John Carroll University ↗
  • Who funds URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITY SCHOOL LLC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLIFTON CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Business Advisers of Cleveland ↗

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 FoundationOH23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Carol & Charles Rini Family Foundation · Thomas C&Sandra S Sullivan Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Howley Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Arthur B McBride Sr Family Foundation · Coltman Thomas J Foundation Ta · Samuel H & Maria Miller 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 J Harrington &Amp Marie Glidden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Harrington &Amp Marie Glidden 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 29 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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