· Private foundation
Joseph & Nancy Keithley 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $47,500 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $30,500 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATIONS AKA CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $26,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| LAND STUDIO | $10,000 |
| HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDEN | $5,000 |
| CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,613 |
| THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HOLDEN ARBORETUM | $1,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE & ART | $1,000 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKE | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 6 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 FY2024, 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
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $518k · revenue +71%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association5× · 2017–2021 · $176k · revenue +45%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- TCTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +2%
Teach for America Incone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +1%- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELANDone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -56%
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.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.
To preserve, develop, and share historic dunham tavern and its campus as an educational and cultural resource. we aspire for dunham tavern as an institution to provide an urban green space in midtown cleveland, and to return the tavern to…
The westmoreland museum of american art offers a place to share compelling and meaningful cultural experiences that open the door to new ideas, perspectives, and possibilities.
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To create a transformative educational experience for students focused on deep disciplinary knowledge; problem solving; leadership, communication and interpersonal skills; and personal health and well-being. to cultivate a transformative…
The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Institute of Art and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 33 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 CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds FRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY ↗
- Who funds THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JUDSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL ↗
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 Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Cleveland Foundation · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Gries Family Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Robert R & Gay C Cull Family 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 Joseph & Nancy Keithley 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.
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.