· Private foundation
Kohrman Family Fdn
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| ORT AMERICA | $3,000 |
| BETH EL THE HEIGHTS SYNAGOGUE | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $1,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $500 |
| ACLU | $500 |
| COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC | $500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $500 |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART | $400 |
| GREENPEACE | $400 |
| CHABAD OF UNIVERSITY CIRCLE | $360 |
| APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY | $300 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $300 |
| THE CITY MISSION | $300 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC3× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue +20%- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $700 · revenue +7%
EARTHJUSTICE2× · 2022–2024 · $600 · revenue +26%
Funded once
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +44%- UCUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -27%
- FFORWARDone grant, 2023 · $180
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.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…
Third way institute supports charitable and educational activities that advance centrist solutions to major economic, national security, energy and social policy issues.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way and the most unlike its peers is Neighbors Together. 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.
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 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 106 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REACHING HEIGHTS ↗
- Who funds CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCI-TECH SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Reading 1 Foundation · A Malachi Mixon III & Barbara W Mixon Foundation · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · The Hershey Foundation · The Sears Swetland 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 Kohrman Family Fdn 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.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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