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Michael Talty and Helen Talty Charitable Trust at a glance

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Michael Talty and Helen Talty Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$114k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$531kEducation$478kReligion$277kAnimals$218kHuman Services$216kArts & Culture$145kHousing & Shelter$89kFood & Nutrition$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $114k
$4,600
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $5k → 14%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $5k → 14%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $4k → 14%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $4k → 14%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $3k → 14%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $2k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $2k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $2k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $2k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $1k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $1k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 17%BLOSSOM HILL: $4k → 17%BLOSSOM HILL: $4k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $25k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $18k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $18k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $15k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $9k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $9k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $8k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $7k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $5k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $4k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $4k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHS FOR KIDS: $5k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHS FOR KIDS: $4k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $7k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $7k → 17%THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $4k → 17%THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $3k → 17%THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $3k → 17%THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $3k → 17%THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $3k → 17%BLOSSOM HILL: $5k → 17%BLOSSOM HILL: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 56 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
13

Total granted

$2.0M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+16%

Still filing today

59%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationReligionFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CZ
    CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +72%
  • MH
    MERRICK HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +33%
  • O
    OhioGuidestone
    9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHAGRIN FALLS PARK COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • ND
    NOTRE DAME COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -16%
  • LC
    LAKEWOOD CATHOLIC ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
2
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Cleveland Inc

The mission of united cerebral palsy is to empower children and adults with disabilities to advance their independence, productivity and inclusion in the community.

Health
3
Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center

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.

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4
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
5
Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
6
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

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…

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7
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

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…

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8
Ohio Living Holdings

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…

Human Services
9
Diabetes Partnership of Cleveland

Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.

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10
Ohio Living Quaker Heights

To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.

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11
Jewish Family Services

To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.

Human Services
12
Catholic Charities Corporation

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is OhioGuidestone; 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.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
27/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY REDEEMER PARISH: $196,300 · OtherHOLY REDEEMER PARISHSAINTS ROBERT & WILLIAM PARISH: $96,800 · OtherSAINTS ROBERT & WILLIAM PARISHHOLY NAME HIGH SCHOOL: $84,400 · OtherHOLY NAME HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $76,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWICKLIFFE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONS: $70,200 · OtherWICKLIFFE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONSFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $63,600 · OtherFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INCMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOC OF NE OH: $57,000 · OtherST MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $41,600 · Other+39 more: $478,050 · Other+39 moreOhioGuidestone: $102,800 · HealthOhioGuidestoneEmpowering Epilepsy: $30,400 · HealthEmpowering Epil…Womankind Inc: $29,500 · HealthWomankind IncMEDWISH MEDWORKS: $28,400 · HealthMEDWISH MEDWORK…HOPEWELL: $28,150 · HealthHOPEWELLREGINA HEALTH CENTER: $19,000 · HealthREGINA HEALTH C…MILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES: $11,000 · Health+4 more: $28,000 · Health+4 moreCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $217,700 · AnimalsCLEVELAND Z…MERRICK HOUSE: $105,800 · Human ServicesMERRICK HOU…OPEN HEART MAGIC: $21,400 · Human ServicesOPEN HEART …Near Westside MultiService Corp: $16,100 · Human ServicesNear Westsi…BLOSSOM HILL INC: $15,600 · Human ServicesBLOSSOM HIL…THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $14,900 · Human ServicesTHEA BOWMAN…THE GATHERING PLACE: $14,200 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERI…SEEDS OF LITERACY: $10,700 · Human ServicesSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $9,600 · Human Services+1 more: $5,200 · Human ServicesIRISH AMERICAN ARCHIVES SOCIETY: $33,400 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $27,300 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND: $26,000 · Arts & CultureHOLMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS LTD: $24,850 · Arts & CultureUniversity of Dayton: $40,500 · EducationNOTRE DAME COLLEGE: $7,400 · EducationHIRAM FARM LIVING AND LEARNING COMMUNITY: $43,250 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,164,850Health$277,250Animals$217,700Human Services$213,500Arts & Culture$111,550Education$47,900Recreation & Sports$43,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $217,700 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMERRICK HOUSE: $105,800 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $102,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $63,600 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetHIRAM FARM LIVING AND LEARNING COMMUNITY: $43,250 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $40,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $34,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetIRISH AMERICAN ARCHIVES SOCIETY: $33,400 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetEmpowering Epilepsy: $30,400 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetWomankind Inc: $29,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMEDWISH MEDWORKS: $28,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL: $28,150 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $27,300 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND: $26,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHOLMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS LTD: $24,850 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetOPEN HEART MAGIC: $21,400 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetREGINA HEALTH CENTER: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $16,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $15,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $15,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOSSOM HILL INC: $15,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHEA BOWMAN CENTER: $14,900 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $14,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetESPERANZA INC: $12,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $11,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY: $10,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $9,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $9,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTREATMENT WORKS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $7,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEACT: $7,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNOTRE DAME COLLEGE: $7,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $3,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREHABILITATION CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds BLOSSOM HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds THEA BOWMAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Cleveland Foundat…Higley Fund of the Cl…The Sam J Frankino Fo…The Reinberger Founda…The Sk Wellman Founda…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Louise H & David …Community West Founda…The Swagelok Foundati…Dominion Energy Chari…Jewish Federation of …Edwin D Northrup II F…
The Cleveland FoundationOH53.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael Talty and Helen Talty Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Talty and Helen Talty Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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