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Jean Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Family Foundation at a glance

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Jean Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Family 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.

$252k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$543kHealth$415kEmployment$119kHuman Services$25kAnimals$23kRecreation & Sports$10kPhilanthropy$5kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$727k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEWART'S CARING PLACE$75,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA$50,000
KABOON COLLECTIVE$31,500
GRACE HOUSE$12,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUM$10,000
WESTERN RESERVE PLAYHOUSE$5,000
INMOTION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE FARM INC: $3k → 11%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 8 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+50%

Still filing today

50%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • SC
    STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $413k · revenue -54%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    6× · 2017–2024 · $301k · revenue +45%
  • HA
    HEIGHTS ARTS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $210k

Funded once

  • MP
    MENORAH PARK
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELANDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • WA
    WATERLOO ALLEY CAT PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +50%
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
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
2
Cleveland Chamber Collective

Non-profit organization dedicated to presenting frees concert of Classical Music

Arts & Culture
3
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
4
Shadoart Productions Inc

We use the power of live performance art to create a unified expression of joy that is shared within our community through engaged educational programming, enhanced corporate partnerships, and inspired civic givebacks. see schedule o for…

Arts & Culture
5
Cleveland Pops Orchestra

The cleveland pops orchestra, led by conductor carl topilow, performs the highest quality symphonic pops music to entertain and enrich a wide and diverse audience and provides educational programs to develop an enduring appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
6
The Cleveland Modern Dance Association

To be a national model for how a presenting organization serves its community, leveraging the worlds best modern and contemporary dance to inspire and educate audiences, local dancers, and community members.

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7
Queen City Chamber Opera Dba Queen City Opera

Classical music performances in Cincinnati.

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

Moca's mission- art now, in progress - embodies our nature as a living, adaptive platform for artistic experimentation, public exchange, and civic connection. our vision - artists & art lead us to the unfamiliar, where we open and connect…

Arts & Culture
9
The Opera Association of Central Ohio

Opera columbus enriches central ohio by educating, enlightening, and entertaining people of all ages and backgrounds through the live music theatre experience by employing a diverse and far-flung supply of creative talent, ideas and…

Arts & Culture
10
Chamberfest Cleveland

Chamberfest cleveland presents world-class musicians in intensive summer chamber music festivals of imaginative & immersive programs that create original, engaging audience experiences.

Arts & Culture
11
Cleveland Chamber Symphony Council Inc

Music Performance - Performing free concerts of new symphonic music

Arts & Culture
12
Columbus Cultural Youth Orchestra
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citymusic Cleveland Inc; the most unlike its peers is Waterloo Alley Cat Project. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEIGHTS ARTS: $210,000 · OtherHEIGHTS ARTSIndividual grant recipient: $190,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRACE HOUSE: $25,000 · OtherGRACE HOUSEHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUM: $20,000 · Other+4 more: $16,200 · OtherThe Musical Arts Association: $300,500 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts AssociationKaboom Collective: $119,000 · Arts & CultureKaboom Collective+2 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $412,825 · HealthSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBS…+1 more: $2,500 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $25,000 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND: $5,000 · Community ImprovementWATERLOO ALLEY CAT PROJECT: $2,500 · Animals
Other$461,200Arts & Culture$425,500Health$415,325Education$25,000Philanthropy$5,000Community Improvement$5,000Animals$2,500

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 budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $412,825 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $300,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKaboom Collective: $119,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - CLEVELAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWestern Reserve Playhouse: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetINMOTION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWATERLOO ALLEY CAT PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetHOPE FARM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Kranz Family Foun…Emma R Fox Char Trust…The Swagelok Foundati…The Cleveland Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Kranz Family FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kranz Family Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Swagelok Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jean Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jean Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

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    How do I get to Jean Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jean Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Family 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 18 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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