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Me & Fj Callahan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$850k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.1MEducation$2.4MHealth$440kHuman Services$410kCommunity Improvement$258kYouth Development$138kCrime & Legal$113kHousing & Shelter$82kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $175k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $433k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $758k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA$850,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$700,000
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC$175,000
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$158,000
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY$150,000
UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED$125,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$50,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND$50,000
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$45,000
INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HAWKEN SCHOOL$20,000
LEGAL AID OF CLEVELAND$20,000
CHAGRIN HISTORY CENTER$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $10k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $8k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $8k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $8k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $8k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $5k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $5k → 17%THE CENTERS: $5k → 17%KINNECT: $10k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICES: $10k → 17%KINNECT: $10k → 17%KINNECT: $10k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICES: $10k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICES: $8k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $8k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICES: $5k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $50k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.1M · 68 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
11

Total granted

$7.1M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+51%

Still filing today

69%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +34%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +14%
  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • UC
    URSULINE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +12%
  • NO
    NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • JI
    JUMPSTART INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +59%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
2
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
3
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.

Education
4
The Cleveland Institute of Art

The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…

Education
5
Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education
6
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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7
Community Learning Center Institute

Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.

Education
8
Greater Columbus Arts Council

Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.

Arts & Culture
9
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
10
Cleveland Arts Prize

The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…

Arts & Culture
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
The College of Wooster

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…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assembly for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Peninsula Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr16%8%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr19%31%35–55yr19%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%2%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr19%10%35–55yr19%83%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
13%
1,299/9,751

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.

04the grantee network

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 97 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
47/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Musical Arts Association — $1,800,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts AssociationCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $225,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYINTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $199,201 · Arts & CultureINTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY — $135,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $340,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $1,930,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $206,000 · EducationCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSICHAWKEN SCHOOL — $110,000 · Education+5 more — $100,000 · EducationTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC — $375,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND CLINICUNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY — $150,000 · OtherUNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEM…LEGAL AID OF CLEVELAND — $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $72,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND — $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · Other+52 more — $920,700 · Other+52 moreUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL CLEVELAND — $35,000 · Human ServicesMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC — $32,500 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF LITERACY — $32,500 · Human ServicesKINNECT — $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $27,500 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesMERRICK HOUSE — $12,500 · Human Services+4 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED — $155,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE — $40,000 · Community ImprovementJUMPSTART INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $80,000 · Food & NutritionIDEASTREAM — $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAKE ERIE INK — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LEADERS PROGRAM — $5,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$2,699,201Education$2,346,000Other$1,738,200Human Services$310,000Community Improvement$205,000Food & Nutrition$80,000Youth Development$78,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $1,930,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $1,800,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $225,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $206,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $199,201 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED — $155,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY — $135,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL — $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $80,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER — $62,500 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC — $47,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIDEASTREAM — $38,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND — $35,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC — $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY — $32,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKINNECT — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAND STUDIO INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetESPERANZA INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND PRINT ROOM INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $27,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKARAMU HOUSE INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHN HOUSING PARTNERS — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE INK — $22,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetURSULINE COLLEGE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIFEACT — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $12,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMERRICK HOUSE — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRECOVERY RESOURCES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUMPSTART INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds THE SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF LITERACY ↗
  • Who funds KINNECT ↗
  • Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANZA INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM INC ↗
  • Who funds EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…The George Gund Found…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Reinberger Founda…Higley Fund of the Cl…Jewish Federation of …The Swagelok Foundati…Dominion Energy Chari…Murphy Family Foundat…The Nord Family Found…The Louise H & David …The Sk Wellman Founda…
The Cleveland FoundationOH77.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Swagelok Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Sk Wellman 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 Me & Fj Callahan 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 97 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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