· Private foundation
Lakeland Community Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Lakeland Community Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Lorain County, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Lakeland Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 22 organizations, $182k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k39 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HEALTH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER LLC | $150,000 |
| LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $13,540 |
| MERCY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY | $5,900 |
| LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,050 |
| VALOR HOME | $750 |
| LORAIN COUNTY FREE CLINIC | $750 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY OF LORAIN COUNTY | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO | $500 |
| COLLABORATIVE TO END HUMAN TRAFFICING | $500 |
| LEADERSHIP LORAIN COUNTY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| EL CENTRO LORAIN | $500 |
| LORAIN COUNTY HEALTH & DENTISTRY | $500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $450 |
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 (FY17–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +46% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2018, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LCLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $143k · revenue +154%
- LCLORAIN COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +7%
- LCLORAIN COUNTY HEALTH & DENTISTRY2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- MHMERCY HEALTH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER LLCone grant, 2017 · $150k
- CSCAMP SUNSHINE OF AURORAone grant, 2018 · $1k
- BPBAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
The organization provides a comprehensive range of family focused services for lorain county, ohio victims of domestic violence. we endeavor to be a part of collaborative community
To preserve and enhance the well being of lorain countys older adults and adults with special needs by promoting their independence and community awareness and by utilizing
The lorain county historical society collects, preserves, and shares the history of lorain county, ohio to educate and inspire present and future generations.
The organization provides mental illness support and advocacy
Our mission is to serve lorain county residents and businesses through community development initiatives by striving to, improve quality of life, foster smart growth, promote economic vitality, encourage development and redevelopment, and…
To enhance the quality of life in lorain county through a unified and coordinated regional economic development program that provides leadership, maximizes resources, and emphasizes cooperation.
Support of law profession
Oberlin community services council is a responsive community organization that provides direct assistance, referrals, outreach and educational support to lorain county residents who struggle to meet basic needs.
Habitat for humanity engages in activities that promote and support community development in lorain county by serving lower-income residents and struggling neighborhoods
Operation of the lorain county fair.
To serve and empower lorain county residents in need
Programs for providing assistance to families, general education development and assistance to foster children and families, major programs for community services for alcohol and drug prevention services, including services to drug…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Lorain County and the most unlike its peers is Coalition for Hispanic Issues and Progress. 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 42 years old; the field is 22. 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 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 55 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY HEALTH & DENTISTRY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP LORAIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Lorain Civic Center Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LINWOOD COUNCIL OF CHRISTIAN LIFE ↗
- Who funds LORAIN SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET LORAIN DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds SOUL TO SOLE 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: The Nord Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Lorain County · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Patsie & Jenee Campana Foundation Charitable Trust · Miraldi Family Pvt Fdn · The Stocker Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Norton Family Foundation · Community West Foundation · United Way of Greater Lorain County Inc · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Lorain 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 Lakeland Community 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.
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.