· Private foundation
Palko Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $13,650 |
| HOLY NAME HIGH SCHOOL | $7,600 |
| CROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER | $1,750 |
| TURNER SYNDROME SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $1,000 |
| REGINA HEALTH CENTER | $750 |
| AKRON CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK | $750 |
| ST FRANCIS XAVIER | $650 |
| CORNERSTONE OF HOPE | $500 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| UNITED WAY | $500 |
| CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FIRST TEE OF CLE | $500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $325 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY PAN OHIO HOPE RIDE | $300 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CPCROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +11%
- RHREGINA HEALTH CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +28%
- TFTHE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND8× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- CPCLEVELAND PLATFORM TENNIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -28%
- CLCOUNTRY LIFE KIDS CAMP INC BILDSTEINone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +12%
- MDMISC DONATIONS 100 AND UNDERone grant, 2022 · $900
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.
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…
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 lending, savings, and other financial services to its members at terms generally better than available in the marketplace and with a service-based emphasis that recognizes the members' status as owners.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation and the most unlike its peers is North Royalton Stadium Foundation. 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 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 86 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 CROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds REGINA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PLATFORM TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNER SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN OWENS ADVENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds THE EHRBAR ANGELS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY LIFE KIDS CAMP INC BILDSTEIN ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AGC OF WASHINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 Swagelok Foundation · Alberty Family Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Palko Family Foundation 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.