· Private foundation
Mike's Kids
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HATTIE LARLHAM CENTER | $17,500 |
| OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE | $16,500 |
| ELYRIA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BLESSING HOUSE | $15,000 |
| LAWRENCE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| YOUTH CHALLENGE | $15,000 |
| RISING START ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY | $15,000 |
| HATTIE LARLHAM CENTER | $12,500 |
| MURRAY RIDGE CENTER | $10,450 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,249 |
| ADAM AND NOAH RIBAKOW | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE OF AURORA | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OLOUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +46%
- LSLAWRENCE SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +10%
- YCYOUTH CHALLENGE9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- PPPARK PLAY SOLUTIONS LLCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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.
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
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,…
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.
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
Provide access to and participation for individuals with physical disabilities in adaptive sports in the state of ohio.this includes power wheelchair soccer, archery, cycling, sled hockey, swimming, wheelchair rugby, wheelchair softball,…
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…
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
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…
To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW'S LENDING LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PAINESVILLE CREDIT UNION ↗
- Who funds HELP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mike's Kids funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike's Kids. Bigger dots raise more.
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