· Private foundation
Mike's Kids
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HATTIE LARLHAM CENTER | $15,800 |
| OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE | $15,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY | $12,500 |
| YOUTH CHALLENGE | $12,500 |
| LAWRENCE SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| RISING START ACADEMY | $12,000 |
| ELYRIA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,100 |
| MURRAY RIDGE CENTER | $9,500 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE OF AURORA | $3,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,800 |
| SAVE OUR CHILDREN | $3,800 |
| ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN | $3,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,635 |
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 (FY17–22, $47k) 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- OLOUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +46%
- LSLAWRENCE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +10%
- YCYOUTH CHALLENGE8× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- PPPARK PLAY SOLUTIONS LLCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6k
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 achievement center (center) is a non-profit organization that provides child centered and family focused therapeutic services in the areas of early childhood, physical rehabilitation, mental/behavioral health, autism spectrum disorder,…
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
The mission of united cerebral palsy is to empower children and adults with disabilities to advance their independence, productivity and inclusion in the community.
The primary mission of the golden key center for exceptional children is to provide quality education and intervention services to students with developmental disabilities.
To assist people with disabilities to live, work and socialize within a fully accessible community.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
Abilities First is committed to providing comprehensive services and quality care to each child and adult with special needs to put their abilities first.
The ohio coalition for the education of children with disabilities is a collaboration of parents, professionals, and partners advocating for children with disabilities to receive the educational services, experiences, and supports they…
To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.
Abilites Inc is a non-profit agency dedicated to facilitating integrated employment and full participation of persons with disabilities in their work and living communities. Employment is accomplished through direct service to youth and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Painesville Credit Union. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 53 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 OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW'S LENDING LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HELP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAINESVILLE CREDIT UNION ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
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 Sk Wellman Foundation · Community Fund Management Foundation Inc · Community West Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · Giant Eagle Foundation · Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Mike's Kids 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.