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Pinnacle Gardens Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$48k
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$89kArts & Culture$74kReligion$64kHealth$49kEnvironment$36kInternational$35kCivil Rights$33kEducation$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k66 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$250
Median grant
11
States reached
$50k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUPERHERO PROJECT$19,845
SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES$2,500
PATRICK KELLY YOUTH FOUNDATION$2,500
CONGREGATION MISHKAN OR$1,298
TEMPLE TIFERETH ISRAEL$1,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC$1,000
SOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD$1,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$1,000
COLLABORATE CLEVELAND$775
LAKEWOOD MUSIC BOOSTERS$741
CONGREGATION NER TAMID$634
LGBT COM CNTR CLEVELAND$615
IDEASTREAMWVIZ$560
PRETERM$540
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$517
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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THE MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION: $150 → 6%THE MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 6%MYOSITUS ASSOCIATION: $35 → 6%WESTSIDE BABY: $1k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $1k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $1k → 9%REFUGE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $250 → 9%REAL CHANGE: $500 → 9%REAL CHANGE: $500 → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $250 → 9%REAL CHANGE: $250 → 9%REAL CHANGE: $250 → 9%US TOGETHER: $515 → 17%US TOGETHER: $309 → 17%REFUGEE RESPONSE: $2k → 17%REAL CHANGE: $200 → 9%REFUGEE RESPONSE: $250 → 17%REFUGEE RESPONSE: $250 → 17%ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION: $200 → 17%WAITING CHILD FUND: $100 → 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

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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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$372k · 139 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

139 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 88 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

139
128

Total granted

$372k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+34%

Still filing today

52%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TS
    The Superhero Project
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +35%
  • SA
    SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +146%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SUPERHERO PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +84%
  • H
    HADASSAH
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF YAD LAKASHISH
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
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
2
Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc

Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.

Crime & Legal
3
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
8
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Washington

To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights, and to take action to further those liberties and rights within the state of washington.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakewood Aliveinc; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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

144 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. 144 of the 288 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
142/144
Grantees still filing
117/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION NER TAMID: $22,054 · OtherCONGREGATION NER TAMIDSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $11,250 · OtherHADASSAH: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF YAD LAKASHISH: $10,000 · OtherSPLASH: $9,046 · Other+133 more: $206,625 · Other+133 moreThe Superhero Project: $75,232 · HealthThe Superhero ProjectTHE SUPERHERO PROJECT INC: $22,595 · HealthTHE SUPERHERO PROJECT IN…Abortion Fund of Ohio: $3,750 · Health+7 more: $6,378 · Health+7 moreRICHARD HUGO HOUSE: $9,155 · Arts & CultureRICHARD HUG…SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES: $7,250 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART…PRO PUBLICA INC: $6,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA…LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLOWER EAST …LOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV: $4,500 · Arts & CultureLOOK LISTEN…SOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD: $3,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SEATT…BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,199 · Arts & CultureBECK CENTER…CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM INC: $2,250 · Arts & CultureLAKE ERIE NATIVE AMERICAN COUNCIL INC: $2,250 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $9,856 · Arts & Culture+14 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,712 · InternationalTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $2,100 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $1,017 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $1,000 · International+4 more: $2,150 · InternationalSOUTHERN NEVADA CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $3,730 · EnvironmentVASHON-MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST: $2,730 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,875 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · EnvironmentTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $1,000 · EnvironmentSPLASH INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine Inc: $750 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $8,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Crime & LegalWATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE: $1,000 · Crime & LegalJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $627 · Crime & LegalKIND INC: $500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $250 · Crime & LegalPATRICK KELLEY YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $850 · PhilanthropyCleveland Social Venture Partners: $775 · Philanthropy
Other$268,975Health$107,955Arts & Culture$52,960International$22,479Environment$22,085Crime & Legal$13,377Philanthropy$13,225

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Superhero Project: $75,232 over 3y, 24% of budgetTHE SUPERHERO PROJECT INC: $22,595 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $11,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN NEVADA CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRICHARD HUGO HOUSE: $9,155 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,712 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $8,081 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATRICK KELLEY YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES: $7,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Winthrop Pub Library: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $4,796 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAbortion Fund of Ohio: $3,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $3,730 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,199 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetABORTION FORWARD ALLIANCE: $3,026 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $3,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND: $2,755 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVASHON-MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST: $2,730 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOhio Womens Alliance: $2,530 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $2,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND PRINT ROOM INC: $2,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE ERIE NATIVE AMERICAN COUNCIL INC: $2,250 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC: $1,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEquality Ohio: $1,731 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLA OHIO: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Institute: $1,375 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,275 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPATH WITH ART: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCure Sanfilippo Foundation: $1,205 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $1,023 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $1,017 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Superhero Project ↗
  • Who funds THE SUPERHERO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN NEVADA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds RICHARD HUGO HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PATRICK KELLEY YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Winthrop Pub Library ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds LOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV ↗
  • Who funds Abortion Fund of Ohio ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD ↗
  • Who funds BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION FORWARD ALLIANCE ↗

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 Foundat…The George Gund Found…The Char and Chuck Fo…Seattle FoundationHigley Fund of the Cl…Mt Sinai Health Care …The Reinberger Founda…Community West Founda…The Norcliffe Foundat…Jewish Federation of …The Swagelok Foundati…The Sk Wellman Founda…
The Cleveland FoundationOH62.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Swagelok Foundation · The Sk Wellman 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 Pinnacle Gardens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pinnacle Gardens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Pinnacle Gardens Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pinnacle Gardens 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 288 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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