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Kaulig Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$186k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$217kEducation$157kHuman Services$117kRecreation & Sports$112kYouth Development$95kArts & Culture$73kHousing & Shelter$60kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $119k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$381k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMPOWER SPORTS$15,000
CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK$12,500
ACCESS$10,000
ARTSPARKS$10,000
LIFEACT$10,000
STEWART'S CARING PLACE$10,000
SOS STRENGTHENING OUR STUDENTS$7,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$5,000
AKRON MARATHON CHARITABLE CORPORATION$5,000
MALACHI CENTER$5,000
VICTORY GALLOP INC$5,000
VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC$5,000
UNITED WAY SUMMIT MEDINA COUNTY$5,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION$5,000
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$5,000
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 (FY20–24, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IN STEP WITH HORSES INC: $1k → 6%BLESSING HOUSE: $5k → 13%A KID AGAIN INC: $10k → 15%IN STEP WITH HORSES: $3k → 17%CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY: $3k → 17%EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION: $15k → 17%EMPOWER SPORTS: $15k → 17%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $5k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $5k → 13%EMPOWER SPORTS: $15k → 17%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $5k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANT PROGRAM INC: $5k → 13%EMPOWER SPORTS: $15k → 17%EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%FOSTERING HOPE: $3k → 17%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$757k · 39 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
36

Total granted

$757k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+24%

Still filing today

87%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • ES
    EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +118%
  • AS
    Art Sparks
    5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +161%
  • SC
    STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF RWANDAN EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +6%
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • 1W
    100 WOMEN STRONG OHIO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +37%

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
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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2
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
3
The Golden Key Center for Exceptional Children Inc

The primary mission of the golden key center for exceptional children is to provide quality education and intervention services to students with developmental disabilities.

Human Services
4
Adoption Network Cleveland

Adoption network cleveland's mission is to connect and empower individuals, organizations, and communities impacted by adoption, kinship, and foster care, and we provide a source of healing for those in need.

Human Services
5
Leadership Akron

The mission of leadership akron is to inspire, strengthen, and empower leaders. our purpose is to unlock the potential of leaders and serve as a catalyst that drives them to create a greater akron.

Education
6
East Cleveland Neighborhood Center

To address the needs of children and families by providing enrichment programs that promote resilience, social and emotional wellness, academic preparation skills, and parent engagement.

Human Services
7
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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8
Family Connections of Northeast Ohio

Family connections of northeast ohio has been helping families grow stronger together for over 40 years by providing parenting support and educational opportunities for families with children from birth through age 6. we offer year-round,…

Human Services
9
Open Doors Inc

Open doors academy (oda) provides year-round out-of-school time academic and enrichment programs to youth living in underserved communities. oda is based in cleveland, ohio and operates programs in northeast and northwest ohio. oda…

Youth Development
10
The Cleveland Music School Settlement

To welcome all to our music and arts community to learn, create, celebrate and heal.

Arts & Culture
11
Emmanuel Christian Academy

Emmanuel's mission is to provide instruction in god's word and conventional instruction that meets or exceeds state standards for all who desire a biblical foundation. to serve children who historically have been defined as at-risk of not…

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12
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Ignites Northeastern Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mercury Summer Stock. 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 backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsYouth Leadership DevelopmentSenior Residential HousingFaith-Based Community Outre…Professional Trade Associat…Community Support ServicesMember-Based Sports Clubs
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 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr13%8%5–10yr16%29%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr18%21%35–55yr18%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%4%5–10yr16%31%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr18%18%35–55yr18%16%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/79
the rest of the field
13%
1,719/12,983

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

76 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. 76 of the 87 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
54/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACCESS INC — $50,000 · OtherACCESS INCA KID AGAIN - NORTHERN OHIO — $40,000 · OtherA KID AGAIN - NORTHERN OHIOSOS (STRENGTHENING OUR STUDENTS) WILLIAMS — $28,000 · OtherSOS (STRENGTHENING OUR STUDENTS) WILLIAMSACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 · OtherGREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $18,333 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $15,000 · OtherGREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER — $15,000 · OtherCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF RWANDAN EDUCATION INC — $15,000 · Other+32 more — $167,000 · Other+32 moreHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION — $65,000 · HealthHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATI…STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY — $50,000 · HealthSTEWART'S CARING PLACE …LIFEACT — $20,000 · HealthLIFEACTPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN — $12,400 · HealthPATHWAY CARING FOR CHIL…THE LITTLEST HEROES INC — $12,000 · HealthTHE LITTLEST HEROES INCVICTORY GALLOP INC — $11,800 · HealthVICTORY GALLOP INCAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthMILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES — $7,500 · Health+3 more — $12,500 · Health+3 moreEMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION — $70,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER SPORTS …VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesVICTIM ASSISTAN…A KID AGAIN INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesA KID AGAIN INCCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesBLESSING HOUSE — $5,000 · Human Services+6 more — $16,000 · Human Services+6 moreCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK — $37,500 · EducationCLEVELAND K…FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $30,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF …THE TURN — $20,000 · EducationTHE TURNCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $3,500 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationArt Sparks — $60,000 · Arts & CultureArt Spark…NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC — $5,100 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …MERCURY SUMMER STOCK — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMERCURY S…Playhouse Square Foundation — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse…+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & Culture100 WOMEN STRONG OHIO INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER CLEVELAND VOLUNTEERS — $10,000 · PhilanthropyBELIEVE IN DREAMS — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AKRON MARATHON CHARITABLE CORPORATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOACH SAM'S INNER CIRCLE FOUNDATION — $2,000 · PhilanthropyGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS 2 MEN INC — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentAKRON YOUTH MENTORSHIP — $2,400 · Youth DevelopmentBEYOND THE GAME — $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$388,333Health$201,200Human Services$131,000Education$98,500Arts & Culture$77,600Philanthropy$47,000Youth Development$22,400

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 budgetEMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION — $70,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetArt Sparks — $60,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY — $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetACCESS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK — $37,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOS (STRENGTHENING OUR STUDENTS) WILLIAMS — $28,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TURN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEACT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $18,333 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF RWANDAN EDUCATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN — $12,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITTLEST HEROES INC — $12,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetVICTORY GALLOP INC — $11,800 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetELVES & MORE OF NORTHEST OHIO — $10,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND VOLUNTEERS — $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE IN DREAMS — $10,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AKRON MARATHON CHARITABLE CORPORATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HIRAM HOUSE — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD KNIGHTS INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC — $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCURY SUMMER STOCK — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJULIE BILLIART NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBLESSING HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIN STEP WITH HORSESINC — $3,500 over 2y, 1.1% 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…The Reinberger Founda…Akron Community Found…Cavaliers Youth Found…Higley Fund of the Cl…Community West Founda…The Swagelok Foundati…Northern Ohio Golf Ch…The Sk Wellman Founda…Sisler McFawn Foundat…The Lozick Family Fou…Dominion Energy Chari…
The Cleveland FoundationOH67.2× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Cavaliers Youth Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Lozick Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 Kaulig 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kaulig Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kaulig 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 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.

Source object · view filing

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