How much did PEGGY & JOHN GARSON FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

Health$1.8MEducation$1.0MHuman Services$145kReligion$133kPhilanthropy$110kYouth Development$55kArts & Culture$35kPublic Benefit$15kInternational$10kOther$10k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

israel

2021

creativeyouth

2022

foodcancer

2023

carewell childrengoodsenvironmentpromiselives

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k4 grants · $67k
$50k–250k2 grants · $120k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO$60,000
GOODS BANK NEO$60,000
BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDRENS BUREAU$25,000
MANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CLEVELAND$21,500
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND$10,000
MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1M · 9 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+77%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureOther

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

UH
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
2× · 2020–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +65%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO
2× · 2021–2023 · $68k · revenue +10%
MJ
MANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CLEVELAND
2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +26%

Funded once

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +26%
BH
BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +329%
US
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +77%

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

04Your field

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 Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati brings our community together to care for Jews.

Philanthropy

Jewish Community Center of Cincinnati

The Mayerson JCC provides cultural, social, educational and recreational programs to the Jewish Community and general community of Greater Cincinnati.

Recreation & Sports

Hillel the Foundation of Jewish

Cincinnati Hillel enriches the lives and strengthens the Jewish identity of Jewish college students in Greater Cincinnati and builds bridges to Jewish life after college.

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Cleveland Museum of Art

To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.

Arts & Culture

Cleveland State University

The CSUF is organized primarily to engage in activities to provide support and services to CSU.

Education

Cleveland Chesed Center

Distribution of Kosher food and other household items to meet the basic needs of the financially vunerable families and provide referrals to social services and other assistance to such families in order to further their financial…

Food & Nutrition

Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education

Jewish Family Service of the

Provide counseling, support economic well-being and provide aging services.

Human Services

JewishColumbus

To Enrich Jewish Life & Instill Jewish Pride; Protect Our Community; Connect with Israel & World Jewry; Help Vulnerable Jewish Populations

Religion

Columbus Jewish Foundation

To ensure a supportive, engaged and vibrant future for the Jewish Community.

Philanthropy

Cleveland Hillel Foundation Inc

Engage and empower jewish young adults through exceptional programming and experiences that foster active jewish life on and off campus and in the cleveland jewish community.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is University Hospitals Health System Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/21

the rest of the field

11%

1,109/9,797

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.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

16/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$1,817,500Education$1,007,000Human Services$144,600Religion$132,500Philanthropy$109,500Youth Development$55,000Arts & Culture$35,000Other$35,000

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.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH35.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Treu Mart Fund · The Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family · The George Gund Foundation · Dan and Ellen Zelman Family Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier · The Sk Wellman Foundation · David & Inez Myers Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation

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 organisation PEGGY & JOHN GARSON 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 453043080 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Peggy & John Garson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Peggy & John Garson Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PEGGY & JOHN GARSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Peggy & John Garson Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

PEGGY & JOHN GARSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Peggy & John Garson Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph