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Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jane and Jon Outcalt 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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.9MHealth$2.9MEducation$2.0MYouth Development$1.9MPhilanthropy$678kFood & Nutrition$632kPublic Benefit$256kHuman Services$194kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $189k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $410k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART$1,050,000
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$941,000
HOLDEN FOREST & GARDENS$257,500
HOSPICE OF WESTERN RESERVE$200,000
HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL$160,000
CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$50,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION$42,000
CLEVELAND PLAYHOUSE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
TWO FOUNDATION$22,000
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$20,000
FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS$15,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS$10,000
CLEVELAND CLININC FOUNDATION$10,000
CLEVELAND NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM$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 (FY17–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%FAIRHILL PARTNERS: $1k → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $500 → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $500 → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $1k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $1k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $1k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $1k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
MO
DC
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.
$13M · 58 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
30

Total granted

$13M
$395k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+34%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +71%
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +51%
  • PS
    Playhouse Square Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +34%
  • NP
    NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +477%
  • CN
    CHARTWELL NATIONAL TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
Point Park University

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…

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2
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services
6
Lehigh University

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…

Education
7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
Clarkson University

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,…

Education
9
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
12
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Galen Foundation. 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

61 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. 61 of the 92 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
45/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: $2,084,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSCLEVELAND NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $556,200 · OtherCLEVELAND NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMHOSPICE OF WESTERN RESERVE: $517,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF WESTERN RESERVEUNITED WAY SERVICES: $460,000 · OtherUNITED WAY SERVICESHOLDEN FOREST & GARDENS: $315,000 · OtherHOLDEN FOREST & GARDENSCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $255,550 · Other+45 more: $1,065,200 · Other+45 moreCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $2,552,550 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ARTPlayhouse Square Foundation: $1,102,300 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Square FoundationTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $302,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE+9 more: $128,200 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $1,873,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOLHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $787,500 · EducationHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOLFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $427,400 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOL…THE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $345,000 · EducationTHE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATI…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSIT…+9 more: $164,750 · EducationGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $317,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $7,750 · Food & NutritionTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $190,000 · PhilanthropyJUDSON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyIDEASTREAM: $190,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $41,000 · HealthMEDWISH MEDWORKS: $35,000 · HealthBeech Brook: $31,000 · HealthTRINITAS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthLIFEACT: $7,750 · Health+3 more: $4,850 · Health
Other$5,254,200Arts & Culture$4,085,050Education$3,847,900Food & Nutrition$324,750Philanthropy$217,500Youth Development$190,000Health$149,600

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 budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $2,552,550 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $1,873,250 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $1,102,300 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $787,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $427,400 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $345,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $317,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $302,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $190,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $145,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $118,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS: $50,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $42,800 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $41,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDWISH MEDWORKS: $35,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBeech Brook: $31,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITAS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $30,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $25,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJUDSON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY: $19,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $9,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $9,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEACT: $7,750 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHERSHEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $3,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCircle Health Services: $2,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND VOLUNTEERS: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND BALLET: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% 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 CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS ↗
  • Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds MEDWISH MEDWORKS ↗
  • Who funds Beech Brook ↗
  • Who funds TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗

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…The George Gund Found…Jewish Federation of …The Lozick Family Fou…Dominion Energy Chari…The Char and Chuck Fo…Sullivan Family FundThe Reinberger Founda…Emma R Fox Char Trust…The Sk Wellman Founda…Higley Fund of the Cl…The Louise H & David …
The Cleveland FoundationOH54.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Lozick Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Sullivan Family Fund · The Reinberger Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn

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 Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jane and Jon Outcalt 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 92 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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