· Private foundation
Lincoln Electric Fdn Pfdn
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k50 grants · $214k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $599k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $713k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $215,550 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $120,000 |
| WOMEN WHO WELD | $100,000 |
| MAGNET | $100,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $77,752 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS & RB&CS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| RED CROSS | $45,000 |
| LINCOLN ELECTRIC FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $37,500 |
| USA BOBSLED SKELETON INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| MENTOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
62 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2022, 24 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k 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
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC3× · 2019–2022 · $190k · revenue +27%
- MAMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC3× · 2019–2022 · $140k · revenue +90%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY3× · 2019–2022 · $48k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- AWAMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INCone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +7%
- LILINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +98%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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…
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.
United way of greater toledo unites the caring power of people to improve lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. 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 43 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.
84 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. 84 of the 152 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN WHO WELD ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GEAUGA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Swagelok Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The George Gund Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · United Way of Greater Cleveland
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 Lincoln Electric Fdn Pfdn 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 Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- American Welding Society 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.