· Private foundation
Michael Talty and Helen Talty Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of MICHAEL TALTY AND HELEN TALTY CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $113,600 |
| HOLY REDEEMER PARISH | $24,600 |
| HIRAM FARM LIVING & LEARNING | $14,400 |
| SAINTS ROBERT & WILLIAM CATHOLIC SC | $13,900 |
| OHIO GUIDESTONE | $13,200 |
| SISTERS OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY | $10,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,800 |
| ST THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS ACADE | $10,700 |
| HOLY NAME HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WICKLIFFE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONS | $8,900 |
| THE FELICIAN SISTERS CHILD CARE | $8,800 |
| MEDWISH INTERNATIONAL | $8,300 |
| FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES | $7,600 |
| FIBROMASCULAR DYSPLASIA SOCIETY | $7,300 |
| BENEDICTINE HIGH SCHOOL | $7,100 |
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 (FY17–25, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% 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
- CZCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +72%
- MHMERRICK HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +33%
- OOhioGuidestone9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- CFCHAGRIN FALLS PARK COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $8k
- NDNOTRE DAME COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -16%
- LCLAKEWOOD CATHOLIC ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
The mission of united cerebral palsy is to empower children and adults with disabilities to advance their independence, productivity and inclusion in the community.
Cleveland hearing and speech is the premier provider of hearing, speech-language and deaf services, education, and advocacy helping people connect through communication, regardless of ability to pay.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
See schedule oto provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. the organization is dedicated to living our mission and keeping…
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.
To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is OhioGuidestone and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness 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 48 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 75 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 CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MERRICK HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HIRAM FARM LIVING AND LEARNING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds IRISH AMERICAN ARCHIVES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Empowering Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds Womankind Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDWISH MEDWORKS ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds HOLMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART MAGIC ↗
- Who funds REGINA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BLOSSOM HILL INC ↗
- Who funds THEA BOWMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
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 · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · Community West Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Edwin D Northrup II Fund
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 Michael Talty and Helen Talty Charitable Trust 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.