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· Private foundation
RICHMAN BROTHERS FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$143k
Granted FY2024
21
Grants
3
Communities
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of RICHMAN BROTHERS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
2020
needy elderlyelderly formerformer employee
2021
needy retiree
2022
chartitableneedy retiree
2023
needy retiree
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 21 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $81k
$5,702
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SAINT VITUS ENDOWMENT TRUST$11,000
- URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$10,000
- FREE CLINIC OF GREATER CLEVELAND$10,000
- ST MARTIN DE PORRES$10,000
- NORTH COAST HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
- FOOD BANK OF GREATER CLEVELAND$10,000
- BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF NE OHIO$10,000
- PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS$10,000
- INNER CITY TENNIS CLINICS$8,000
- SLOVENIAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES$7,000
- BONNIE ROBERTS$5,702
- THE LYCEUM$5,000
- LUTHERAN METROPILITAN MINISTRY$5,000
- HOLY FAMILY CANCER HOME$5,000
- THE TURN$5,000
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 13%. 94% of your 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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$635k · 28 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +156% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
28
11
Total granted
$635k
$51k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+156%
+63%
Still filing today
29%
9%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsArts & 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
- ICINNER CITY TENNIS CLINICS5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +324%
- TLTHE LYCEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +45%
- UCURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- SVST VITUS ENDOWMENT TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SMST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MHMALACHI HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +63%
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.
1
Urban League of Greater Cleveland
The mission of Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Inc., (the League) is a community-based organization focused on eliminating the racial, economic, and societal barriers that prevent Black Americans and other underrepresented/underserved…
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2
West Side Catholic Center
The west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.
Human Services
3
Cleveland Public Market Corporation
Under the direction of a committed board of directors, the nonprofit cleveland public market corporation ("cpmc") is seeking to make west side market the nation's premier public market by meeting the evolving needs of merchants, customers,…
Community Improvement
4
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
5
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
6
Digitalc
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Community Improvement
7
The Children's Museum of Cleveland
The children's museum of cleveland's focus: fostering creativity via exhibits and programming featuring the arts and concept of invention; being a key resource for parents/caregivers; creating powerful tools to enhance school readiness and…
Arts & Culture
8
Shoes and Clothes for Kids
Shoes and clothes for kids provides new clothing, shoes, and school supplies to needy children in cleveland.
Human Services
9
Laundry Love Cincinnati
Providing community based services to families that are in need.
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10
Preterm Cleveland Inc
Preterm advances women's health and reproductive justice by providing safe, respectful and accessible abortion and sexual health care.
Health
11
Cleveland Pregnancy Center
Providing Biblical, life-affirming resources and services to those affected by unplanned pregnancy.
Health
12
Cleveland Furniture Bank
The cfb provides furnishings and other household items received by donation to qualified low income individuals through the operation of a furniture bank and retail store for the benefit of the greater cleveland community.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Slovenian Museum and Archives Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$537,020Education$56,000Recreation & Sports$36,000Health$32,000Arts & Culture$25,000
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.
Cavaliers Youth FoundationOH13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Cavaliers Youth Foundation · The Catherine L & Edward a Lozick · The Lozick Family Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family · The Cleveland Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation RICHMAN BROTHERS 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: NORTH COAST HEALTH FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 833061303 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 NORTH COAST HEALTH FOUNDATION, 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 23% 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 Richman Brothers Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Richman Brothers 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines