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Pokorny 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $2,250 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE HALL OF FAME | $1,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $650 |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART | $650 |
| THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM | $600 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 62% of your 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TCTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART7× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +44%
- THTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM7× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +3%
- LCLAKE COUNTY BUILD A GENERATION2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RCRUTH CHERRY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
- FCFLORIDA COCKER SPANIEL RESCUE INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +42%
- SFSAINT FRANCIS SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
The college for creative studies nurtures the creativity that is vital to the enrichment of modern culture. the college educates visual artists and designers, knowledgeable in varied fields, who will be leaders in creative professions that…
Ccad fosters a diverse community that educates students so they can unleash their creative power to shape culture and commerce.
Lake erie college provides an excellent, inclusive, and highly personalized education grounded in the liberal arts tradition. guided by hope and care, our students are empowered to lead lives of personal significance and professional…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Haverford college is committed to providing a liberal arts education in the broadest sense. this education, based on a rich academic curriculum at its core, is distinguished by a commitment to excellence and a concern for individual…
Creating leaders who, through the discovery of their own abilities, kindle the potential in others and better a dynamic world.
A school of higher education.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Institute of Art and the most unlike its peers is Florida Cocker Spaniel Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS DANCE THEATER ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY BUILD A GENERATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA COCKER SPANIEL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
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 Cleveland Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Pokorny 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.
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Find your warmest path to Pokorny Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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