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Joseph & Nancy Keithley Foundation at a glance

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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.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$959kEducation$336kEnvironment$85kHealth$37kPhilanthropy$4kHuman Services$2k
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $139k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE & ART$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1,000
HOLDEN ARBORETUM$1,000
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY$1,000
NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKE$1,000
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $48k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $13k → 14%HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $8k → 9%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $12k → 14%HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $8k → 9%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $6k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $24k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $9k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $16k → 16%HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDEN: $5k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDEN: $5k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDEN: $5k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDEN: $5k → 14%LAND STUDIO: $20k → 17%LAND STUDIO: $20k → 17%LAND STUDIO: $20k → 17%LAND STUDIO: $20k → 17%LAND STUDIO: $20k → 17%LAND STUDIO: $10k → 17%FRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY: $10k → 17%LAND STUDIO: $10k → 17%LAND STUDIO: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $358k → 17%CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $76k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $35k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $34k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $31k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $31k → 17%MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATIONS AKA CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $26k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $25k → 17%MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATIONS AKA CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $10k → 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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 27 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
6

Total granted

$1.4M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+31%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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
    7× · 2017–2024 · $518k · revenue +71%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    5× · 2017–2021 · $176k · revenue +45%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +2%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -56%
  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +1%
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
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
2
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
3
The Central European University

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…

International
4
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
5
Akron Art Museum

To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
6
Dunham Tavern Museum & Gardens

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Westmoreland Museum of American Art

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
Carnegie Mellon University

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…

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11
Cleveland Botanical Garden

The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.

Environment
12
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Institute of Art; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $518,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ARTThe Musical Arts Association: $175,500 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Association+11 more: $64,275 · Arts & Culture+11 moreCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $171,500 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV…Cornell University: $140,000 · EducationCornell University+4 more: $14,000 · EducationLAND STUDIO INC: $130,000 · OtherLAND STUDIO INCMUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATIONS AKA CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $51,000 · OtherMUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIAT…University of Michigan: $36,500 · OtherUniversity of Michiga…CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $23,113 · OtherCUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLI…NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKE: $20,417 · OtherNATURE CENTER AT SHAK…+3 more: $9,500 · OtherTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $31,200 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $30,500 · EnvironmentJUDSON FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $1,000 · PhilanthropyIDEASTREAM: $1,750 · Youth DevelopmentHOPEWELL: $250 · Health
Arts & Culture$757,775Education$325,500Other$270,530Environment$61,700Philanthropy$3,500Youth Development$1,750Health$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $518,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $175,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $171,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $140,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAND STUDIO INC: $130,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $36,500 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $31,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $30,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS: $22,875 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY: $10,900 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $8,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $5,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $3,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDSON FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL: $250 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.

  • 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 THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUDSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL ↗

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 Louise H & David …The Cleveland Foundat…Jane and Jon Outcalt …John P Murphy Foundat…The George Gund Found…The Gries Family Foun…George Codrington Fdn…The Kelvin & Eleanor …Emma R Fox Char Trust…Robert H Reakirt Fdn …Jewish Federation of …Robert R & Gay C Cull…
The Louise H & David S Ingalls FdnOH22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Joseph & Nancy Keithley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph & Nancy Keithley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 33 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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