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Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust

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.

$825k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.

Human Services$731kEducation$410kHealth$320kPhilanthropy$225kArts & Culture$125kAnimals$90kFood & Nutrition$50kYouth Development$50kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$1.1M
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $375k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $445k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY$135,000
LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING$110,000
EXTENDED HOUSING$50,000
SUB ZERO MISSION$50,000
FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$50,000
LAKE-GEAUGA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC$50,000
SANTA'S HIDEAWAY HOLLOW$47,000
WOMENSAFE INC$25,000
YMCA$25,000
HANNAHS HOME$25,000
UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC$25,000
FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION$25,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$25,000
HOPEWELL$20,000
LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $531k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SANTA'S HIDEAWAY HOLLOW: $47k → 6%FORBES HOUSE: $164k → 9%EXTENDED HOUSING: $50k → 9%SUB ZERO MISSION: $50k → 9%SUB ZERO MISSION: $30k → 9%HANNAHS HOME: $100k → 9%DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $35k → 9%HANNAHS HOME: $25k → 9%LAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $20k → 9%DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 19 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
22

Total granted

$1.8M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
-8%

Still filing today

84%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LC
    LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $260k · revenue +4%
  • TF
    THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +4%
  • FF
    FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CR
    CHAGRIN RIVER WATERSHED PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -57%
  • FH
    FORBES HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $164k · revenue -8%
  • PH
    PRESTONS H O P E
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -85% · 87% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lake County Crisis Center

A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.

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2
Achievement Centers for Children

Our mission is to empower children and adults with disabilities and (continued on schedule o) their families to achieve their greatest potential through holistic and family-focused services.

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3
Disability Network Lakeshore

Connecting people with disabilities to resources and opportunities, while developing communities where everyone can participate, contribute & belong.

Human Services
4
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

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5
The Road Home

The primary mission is to help individuals and families step out of homelessness and back into the community in salt lake county. the road home meets this mission by providing housing-focused, emergency shelter programs, along with…

Human Services
6
Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope

Lindner center of hope (lcoh) is a mental health center staffed by a diverse team, united in the philosophy that by working together, we can best offer hope for people living with mental illness. the patients and their families are at the…

Health
7
Ohio Legal Help

Ohio legal help leverages technology and innovation to improve justice and fairness for all ohioans. our work removes barriers to the law so that all ohioans can understand their legal options, make informed decisions and connect to legal…

Crime & Legal
8
Long Term Care Ombudsman

As mandated by the federal older americans act and ohio law, the mission of the long term care ombudsman program is to seek the resolution of problems and advocate for the rights of the home care consumers and residents of long- term care…

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9
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton

We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and clinical research.

Health
10
Gateway-Longview Inc

Gateway longview is committed to working together to protect, to give hope, and to enrich the lives of every child and family we serve. motivated by our foundation of christian principles and in everything we do, we will demonstrate the…

Human Services
11
Mental Health Center of Denver

We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Health
12
The Homeless Families Foundation

The homeless families foundation educates and nurtures children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Geauga Recovery Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hannahs Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic Charter SchoolsNeighborhood Development Or…Arts & Cultural Organizatio…Community Service Organizat…Jewish Community Philanthro…School District Support Org…Supportive Housing & Recove…Foster Care & At-Risk Youth…Youth Leadership and Educat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%20%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr18%40%35–55yr19%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%16%5–10yr17%5%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr18%45%35–55yr19%21%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
13%
1,484/11,422

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
14/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $260,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INCTHE LAKELAND FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherTHE LAKELAND FOUNDATIONFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $100,000 · OtherFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTERLAKE-GEAUGA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $100,000 · OtherLAKE-GEAUGA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC — $90,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INCYMCA — $75,000 · OtherYMCAIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherWOMENSAFE INC — $50,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 · Other+19 more — $288,000 · Other+19 moreCHAGRIN RIVER WATERSHED PARTNERS INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesCHAGRIN RIVER WATERSHED PA…FORBES HOUSE — $164,387 · Human ServicesFORBES HOUSEHannahs Home — $125,000 · Human ServicesHannahs HomeTHE SUB ZERO MISSION — $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE SUB ZERO MISSIONEXTENDED HOUSING INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesEXTENDED HOUSING INCSANTAS HIDE-A-WAY HOLLOW — $47,000 · Human ServicesSANTAS HIDE-A-WAY HOLLOWDEEPWOOD FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Human ServicesDEEPWOOD FOUNDATION+1 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY — $285,000 · EducationANDREWS OSBORN…AUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationAUBURN EDUCATI…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER…PRESTONS H O P E — $150,000 · HealthPRESTONS H …HOPEWELL — $60,000 · HealthHOPEWELLScleroderma Research Foundation — $50,000 · HealthScleroderma…DDC CLINIC FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN — $40,000 · HealthDDC CLINIC …NAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND — $20,000 · HealthNAMI-GREATE…UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTrue Freedom Enterprises — $65,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION — $125,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE HUMANE SOCIETY — $65,000 · AnimalsK9 HEROES 4 HEROES — $25,000 · Animals
Other$1,223,000Human Services$731,387Education$410,000Health$320,000Philanthropy$225,000Arts & Culture$125,000Animals$90,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY — $285,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $260,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCHAGRIN RIVER WATERSHED PARTNERS INC — $200,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFORBES HOUSE — $164,387 over 1y, 15% of budgetPRESTONS H O P E — $150,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetTHE LAKELAND FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION — $125,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHannahs Home — $125,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetLAKE-GEAUGA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC — $90,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTHE SUB ZERO MISSION — $80,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTrue Freedom Enterprises — $65,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLAKE HUMANE SOCIETY — $65,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXTENDED HOUSING INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetScleroderma Research Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDEEPWOOD FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetLEARNING ABOUT BUSINESS — $40,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetDDC CLINIC FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN — $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT LAKE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetLAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOLA OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…United Way of Lake Co…The Swagelok Foundati…Avery Dennison Founda…The Lozick Family Fou…Dominion Energy Chari…The Roemisch Family F…Jewish Federation of …Barnard Family Founda…Gould Inc Foundation …Edwin D Northrup II F…Burton D Morgan Found…
The Cleveland FoundationOH50.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · The Swagelok Foundation · Avery Dennison Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Roemisch Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Barnard Family Foundation Elaine T Barnard Trustee · Gould Inc Foundation Co Thomas N Rich · Edwin D Northrup II Fund · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc

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 Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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