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Richard a Barone 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF AMER PORCELAIN ART | $70,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES IN OHIO | $25,000 |
| GILMOUR ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| ST RAPHAEL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| EDNA HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ARCH EAGLE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MAGNIFICAT SCHOOL | $800 |
| PATRON OF THE ARTS | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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 +109% since the first grant, against +74% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MOMUSEUM OF AMER PORCELAIN ART5× · 2020–2024 · $323k
- GAGILMOUR ACADEMY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $100k
- HTHands Together Inc3× · 2017–2022 · $85k · revenue -28%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- UHUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- DEDOMINIC'S ENDOWED FUNDone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
To serve as a center for excellence in the provision of specialized health care services and comfort for patients and families coping with catastrophic illness and injury.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
The Cleveland Christian Home, Inc. exists to be a haven of hope for children, youth, and families struggling with mental illness, abuse, and neglect in Northeast Ohio.
Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…
L'arche cleveland, inc. (l'arche) is a not for profit, incorporated, faith-based community/agency which provides homes and services to adults with developmental disabilities. individuals with and without developmental disabilities create…
The mission of the christ hospital foundation ('tch fdn') is to support the mission of the christ hospital ('tch'). tch's mission is to improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the…
Provide care to hurting and troubled children and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Arch Eagle Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 Hands Together Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF CHAMPIONS ↗
- Who funds INMOTION ↗
- Who funds ARCH EAGLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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 · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Community West Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Richard a Barone 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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