· Private foundation
Laird C and Jeanne B Cleaver Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lighthouse United Methodist Church | $60,000 |
| Food Pantry of Indian River County | $45,000 |
| MADACC Milwaukee Area Animal Contro | $15,000 |
| Southport Island Association | $15,000 |
| Lighthouse Cemetary Associaton | $12,000 |
| Humane Society of Vero Beach | $12,000 |
| HALO No Kill Animal Shelter | $12,000 |
| Boothbay Region District Nursing | $12,000 |
| Granny Rose Animal Shelter | $10,000 |
| Friendship House of Southport | $7,500 |
| Indian River Land Trust | $5,000 |
| Southport Memorial Library | $2,000 |
| St Joseph Indian School | $2,000 |
| The Opera House of Booth Bay | $1,000 |
| Detroit Dog Rescue | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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 +33% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- WFWHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC3× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +99%
- BRBOOTHBAY REGION FOOD PANTRY2× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +95%
- BRBoothbay Region Land Trust3× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- GYGifford Youth Act Ctr Schlrshp Fundone grant, 2023 · $20k
- YSYouth Sailg Fndtn of Indian Rvr Ctyone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 build affordable homes for working men and women.
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
Animal shelter and rescue
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Preserving our Maritime Heritage by supporting working waterfront, promoting sustainable practices, and embracing the educational opportunities this stewardship provides.
Protect and rescue abandoned and at-risk animals.
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Friends of Franklin County Indiana Animal Shelter is dedicated to providing shelter, care, medical support, and adoption services for stray, surrendered, and homeless dogs and other animals in Franklin County, Indiana. The organization…
Through adoptions and collaboration with rescue groups, the organization mission is to save animals from euthanization.
The mission of Ocean Park Food Bank is to distribute food and other items of personal necessity to those who present themselves in need.
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
To keep pets with their families during financially difficult times.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 38 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 WHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD PANTRY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Southport Island Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Region Land Trust ↗
- Who funds HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA HOUSE AT BOOTHBAY HARBOR ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Laird C and Jeanne B Cleaver 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Whole Family Health Center 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.