· Private foundation
John and Priscilla Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF PITTSBURGH | $4,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| ST HERMAN'S FOCUS CLEVELAND | $2,500 |
| FILI INC (INDIA MISSION) | $1,500 |
| MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC DBA RIP MEDICAL DEBT | $1,500 |
| HELLENIC COLLEGEHOLY CROSS | $1,000 |
| EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ORTH CHRISTIAN CHARITY | $1,000 |
| OPEN DOORS ACADEMY | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +56% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +10%
- ELEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE7× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +158%
- YSYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- IAITS ABOUT USone grant, 2024 · $2k
- HCHELLENIC COLLEGE HOLY CROSS GREEK ORTHODOX SCHOOL OF THEOLOGYone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SBST BASIL ORPHANAGE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
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To prepare emerging leaders to initiate,develop and sustain christian-based youth development organizations and to seed their new ministries as they serve vulnerable children and teens in our world's most under-resourced communities.
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True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
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…
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Mission Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ages Initiatives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 30 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 INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds AGES INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Village Life Outreach Project Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOBAMA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GREENHOUSE PARTNERS ↗
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 · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 John and Priscilla Charitable 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.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
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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