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Oatey Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$575k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.7MHealth$1.5MEducation$569kRecreation & Sports$508kHuman Services$440kEnvironment$410kScience & Tech$180kPhilanthropy$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $355k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION$200,000
VELOSANO$55,000
GREATER CLEVELAND PARTNERSHIP$50,000
METROHEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
LIVING WATERS FOR THE WORLD$30,000
YOUTH CHALLENGE$30,000
CLEVELAND WATER ALLIANCE$25,000
YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND$25,000
ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN$14,000
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM$12,500
GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION$12,000
DIVERSITY CENTER OF NE OHIO$10,000
PROVIDENCE HOUSE$10,000
JACKSON HOLE SKI AND SNOW CLUB$8,000
CLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER$6,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $28k → 17%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $25k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $15k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $4k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $4k → 17%NORTHCOAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $4k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $4k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $4k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $3k → 17%NORTHCOAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $3k → 17%NORTHCOAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $3k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICES: $7k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICES: $2k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICES: $2k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICES: $2k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
WY
OH
PA
VA
TN
NC
SC
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 58 repeat orgs$366k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
42

Total granted

$5.0M
$306k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+34%

Still filing today

71%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    7× · 2017–2024 · $912k · revenue +45%
  • TR
    THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +80%
  • YC
    YOUTH CHALLENGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CF
    CLEVELAND FOUNDATION SAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLAR
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • WM
    WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • MA
    MARKETING & ADVERTISING GLOBAL NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +141%
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
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology

Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…

Arts & Culture
2
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
3
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
4
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
5
The Ohio Environmental Council

To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.

Environment
6
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.

Education
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Cleveland Arts Prize

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The City Club of Cleveland

The city club of cleveland's mission is to create conversations of consequence that help democracy thrive. we do this in pursuit of our vision of strong, informed individuals and communities that prize freedom of speech and civil, civic…

Education
10
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
11
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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12
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Ace Hardware Foundation. 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

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 106 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
51/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH CHALLENGE: $390,000 · OtherYOUTH CHALLENGETHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $311,500 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $235,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYGREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER: $175,000 · OtherGREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTERAMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $101,000 · OtherCLEVELAND FOUNDATION SAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLAR: $100,000 · OtherACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $88,500 · OtherUCP OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $79,500 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Other+56 more: $665,850 · Other+56 moreThe Musical Arts Association: $912,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts AssociationTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $580,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME…BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS+5 more: $83,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION: $656,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY WEST FOU…THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FO…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $68,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLIN…+8 more: $59,000 · Health+8 moreTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $200,000 · EducationTHE BOARD…THE TURN: $125,000 · EducationTHE TURNCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationCUYAHOGA …VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationVALUES-IN…DIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $30,000 · EducationDIVERSITY…Saint Martin de Porres High School: $27,000 · EducationCLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER: $19,000 · Education+3 more: $11,500 · EducationYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND: $80,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 · Human ServicesNEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $26,500 · Human ServicesMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC: $12,400 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesLIVING WATERS FOR THE WORLD: $235,000 · InternationalDRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC: $25,000 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · International+1 more: $9,500 · InternationalCLEVELAND WATER ALLIANCE: $175,000 · Environment
Other$2,246,350Arts & Culture$1,675,500Health$983,500Education$512,500Human Services$296,400International$294,500Environment$175,000

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 budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $912,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION: $656,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $580,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH CHALLENGE: $390,000 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetLIVING WATERS FOR THE WORLD: $235,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND WATER ALLIANCE: $175,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetTHE TURN: $125,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $100,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $88,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND: $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $68,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND: $36,650 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $26,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARKETING & ADVERTISING GLOBAL NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER: $19,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $18,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC: $12,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEngage Cleveland Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS: $9,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBusiness Advisers of Cleveland: $7,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCLEVELAND 2030 DISTRICT: $7,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetEliza Jennings Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO INVENTION LEAGUE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetIN HARMONY THERAPEUTIC SERVICES: $6,000 over 3y, 2.9% 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 The Musical Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
  • Who funds LIVING WATERS FOR THE WORLD ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND WATER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE TURN ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Greater Cleveland Partnership ↗
  • Who funds VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds DIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds DRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC ↗
  • Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗

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 FoundationOH54.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The George Gund Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Covia Foundation

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 Oatey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oatey Foundation. 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Oatey Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Oatey Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 106 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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