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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
STEWART'S CARING PLACE$10,000
LIFEACT$10,000
SOS STRENGTHENING OUR STUDENTS$7,000
MALACHI CENTER$5,000
WOMENSAFE INC$5,000
GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$5,000
VINEYARD FOOD RESOURCE CENTER$5,000
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$5,000
ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN$5,000
VICTORY GALLOP INC$5,000
VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC$5,000
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:

Its 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 its 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 ASSISTANT PROGRAM INC: $5k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $5k → 13%EMPOWER SPORTS: $15k → 17%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $5k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE 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
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • ES
    EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +118%
  • AS
    Art Sparks
    5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +161%
  • AI
    ACCESS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +178%

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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Ignites Northeastern Ohio Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 87 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
52/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INCWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $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 …Playhouse Square Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse…MERCURY SUMMER STOCK: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMERCURY S…+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 · PhilanthropyBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST 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 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 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 budgetACCESS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $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 budgetTHE TURN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEACT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetESPERANZA INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND VOLUNTEERS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBELIEVE IN DREAMS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AKRON MARATHON CHARITABLE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HIRAM HOUSE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD KNIGHTS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJULIE BILLIART NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSING HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCURY SUMMER STOCK: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $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
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.

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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 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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