· Private foundation
Ridgecliff Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $288k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $19,500 |
| CORNERSTONE OF HOPE | $17,500 |
| WOMENSAFE INC | $17,500 |
| CORNERSTONE OF HOPE | $17,500 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY PRACTICE | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| I AM BOUNDLESS | $12,500 |
| LIFEACT | $12,500 |
| LIFEACT | $12,500 |
| NEWBRIDGE PLACE | $12,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $12,500 |
| CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE | $11,000 |
| CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,980 |
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 (FY17–24, $709k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- LLIFEACT8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +76%
- COCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $187k · revenue +156%
- CRCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +19%
- HIHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATIone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -50%
- YWYMCA - WARRENone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
Serves as a safety net for those summit county residents who are most in need of behavioral health services as a result of severe and persistent mental illness the agency proveides comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective treatment,…
Our mission is to help the people we serve get better, sooner, for longer. centerpointe serves some of the most vulnerable in our communities who have co-occuring mental and physical health diagnoses, and who are experiencing or at risk of…
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
To provide comprehensive community based residential and support services that enable persons with psychiatric and developmental disabilities to live as fully in the community as possible.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Our mission is to help children and families realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption, and mental health. we serve over 1,700 children and families in 14 northeast ohio counties.
Lindner center of hope (lcoh) is a mental health center staffed by a diverse team, united in the philosophy that by working together, we can best offer hope for people living with mental illness. the patients and their families are at the…
The mission of chrysalis house inc. is to provide family-oriented treatment and recovery support for women with substance use disorders.
Through superior customer service, high quality programs, and well-trained and dedicated staff, we inspire hope and lifesaving changes for people affected by substance use and mental health conditions.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interval Brotherhood Homes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newbridge Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 65 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 LIFEACT ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds WOMENSAFE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds STELLA MARIS INC ↗
- Who funds Newbridge Place ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds YWCA MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Circle Health Services ↗
- Who funds THE GRIEFCARE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KOINONIA HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
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 Swagelok Foundation · Woodruff Foundation · Community West Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · E S Prentiss Foundation-Ir · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Reinberger Foundation · Three Arches 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 Ridgecliff 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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