· Private foundation
Richman Brothers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREE CLINIC OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES | $10,000 |
| NORTH COAST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAINT VITUS ENDOWMENT TRUST | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF NE OHIO | $10,000 |
| ADVANTAGE CLEVELAND TENNIS CLINICS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,842 |
| SLOVENIAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,529 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,529 |
| PAULETTE HOUSTON | $6,529 |
| GLOBAL CLEVELAND | $6,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +11% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- CHCircle Health Services6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +109%
- TLTHE LYCEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +98%
- UCURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- SVST VITUS ENDOWMENT TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MHMALACHI HOUSE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -13%
- HPHANNA PERKINS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $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.
Greater cleveland neighborhood centers association forges key partnerships with community based organizations to support educational programs and connect with residents and promote more
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of northeast ohio residents by providing comprehensive and excellent health care services in a sensitive and caring environment.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
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.
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
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.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Cleveland public market corporations mission is to preserve the city's public market tradition while making the local food system more accessible, equitable, and diverse.
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
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…
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.
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
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.
19 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. 19 of the 43 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Circle Health Services ↗
- Who funds THE LYCEUM ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ADVANTAGE CLEVELAND TENNIS AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Slovenian Museum and Archives Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TURN ↗
- Who funds GREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS CENTER FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING ATTN ANTHONY HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds REPLAY FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF MAHONING TRUMBULL AND COLUMBIANA COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Cyrus Eaton Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The McGregor Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Abington 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 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.
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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