· Private foundation
Me & Fj Callahan Foundation
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 FY2021–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k 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
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +34%- TMThe Musical Arts Association4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +14%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY4× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- UCURSULINE COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +12%
- NONORTHEAST OHIO COALITIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- JIJUMPSTART INCgraduatedone 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.
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 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…
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
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…
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.
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…
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.
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
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…
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…
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…
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.