· Private foundation
Leon and Gloria Plevin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUN | $25,000 |
| IN MOTION | $5,500 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN | $4,250 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $4,000 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $3,000 |
| CROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $2,000 |
| ASPHALT GREEN | $2,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,500 |
| GASTRO-INTESTINAL RESEARCH FDN | $1,500 |
| FAMILY CENTER ON DEAFNESS | $1,500 |
| THE YOUNG CENTER | $1,500 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- PCPAWS CHICAGO5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +210%
SHELBURNE FARMS5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +257%- GCGREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +111%
Funded once
CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +2%
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +20%- AFAGUA FUNDINCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -60%
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.
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deployus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Agua Fundinc. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 42 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 SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
- Who funds INMOTION ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPHALT GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Literary Cleveland ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE INK ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds UNION SQUARE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTER ON DEAFNESS INC ↗
- Who funds AGUA FUNDINC ↗
- Who funds Empowering Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT INNERSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds DEPLOYUS 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 Cleveland Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Leon and Gloria Plevin Family 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.
- Project Innerspace Inc — 34% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% 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.