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Ridgecliff Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$478k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.6MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$366kHousing & Shelter$275kArts & Culture$171kCommunity Improvement$75kReligion$40kYouth Development$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $171k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $332k
$9,283
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS$19,500
CORNERSTONE OF HOPE$17,500
WOMENSAFE INC$17,500
CORNERSTONE OF HOPE$17,500
NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIV FOUND$15,423
Individual grant recipient$15,000
NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY PRACTICE$13,082
NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY PRACTICE$13,082
I AM BOUNDLESS$12,500
LIFEACT$12,500
LIFEACT$12,500
Individual grant recipient$11,225
Individual grant recipient$11,225
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $806k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%I AM BOUNDLESS: $13k → 15%I AM BOUNDLESS: $13k → 15%EXTENDED HOUSING: $10k → 9%EXTENDED HOUSING: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORP: $20k → 13%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ON AGING: $12k → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ON AGING: $12k → 17%THE CENTERS: $10k → 17%THE CENTERS: $10k → 17%THE CENTERS: $10k → 17%THE CENTERS: $10k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $18k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $18k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $18k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $18k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $18k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $18k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $18k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $18k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $18k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $16k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $16k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $12k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $12k → 17%KOINONIA HOMES: $11k → 17%KOINONIA HOMES: $11k → 17%EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $21k → 17%EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $15k → 17%EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $15k → 17%EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $13k → 17%EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $13k → 17%EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $10k → 17%EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $10k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORP: $10k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $18k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $18k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $18k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $9k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $9k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 49 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
16

Total granted

$3.9M
$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-7%

Still filing today

67%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $222k · revenue +156%
  • L
    LIFEACT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +76%
  • CR
    CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +19%
  • HI
    HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -50%
  • YW
    YMCA - WARREN
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

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…

Health
2
Community Support Services Inc

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,…

Health
3
House of Hope for Recovery Inc

Rehabilitation of adult alcoholics and drug addicts.

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4
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

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5
Centerpointe Inc

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…

Health
6
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

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…

Human Services
7
New Horizons Mental Health Services Inc

To provide mental health care to children, adults, and families of the fairfield county area and occasionally to other counties in the state of ohio

Health
8
House of New Hope Inc

It is our mission to demonstrate the love and compassion of jesus christ by protecting and enhancing the safety and well-being of persons from all backgrounds and across the continuum of life through the effective integration of the…

Human Services
9
Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany house services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
10
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
11
Rushford Center Inc

Rushford Center, Inc., is dedicated to meeting the substance abuse and mental health needs of children, adults and families. Working cooperatively with our Hartford HealthCare network partners and others who share our goals, Rushford…

Health
12
Mental Health Services for Homeless Persons Inc

Reaching out to adults and children in northeast ohio to end homelessness, prevent suicide, resolve behavioral health crises and overcome trauma

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interval Brotherhood Homes Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $320,484 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $193,746 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWOMENSAFE INC: $164,500 · OtherWOMENSAFE INCPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $159,323 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOUSE INCST VINCENT CHARITY MED CENTER: $141,830 · OtherST VINCENT CHARITY MED CENTERHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RE: $125,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN REECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK: $99,439 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: $92,315 · Other+34 more: $593,010 · Other+34 moreLIFEACT: $215,000 · HealthLIFEACTCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $190,000 · HealthCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTERNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND: $175,657 · HealthNAMI-GREATER CLEVELANDNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC: $121,164 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INCEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION: $114,700 · HealthEPILEPSY ASSOCIATIONSTELLA MARIS INC: $100,000 · HealthSTELLA MARIS INCMAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC: $47,184 · HealthSIGNATURE HEALTH INC: $38,928 · Health+5 more: $94,677 · Health+5 moreCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $222,160 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE I…WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $154,027 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CE…EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $95,925 · Human ServicesEDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN …Near Westside MultiService Corp: $95,828 · Human ServicesNear Westside MultiSe…YWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $62,500 · Human ServicesYWCA MAHONING VALLEYThe Centers for Families and Children: $40,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $30,000 · Human Services+6 more: $105,980 · Human Services+6 moreCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $136,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNewbridge Place: $75,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $65,000 · Crime & LegalIDEASTREAM: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $4,500 · Youth Development
Other$1,984,647Health$1,097,310Human Services$806,420Arts & Culture$146,500Housing & Shelter$77,500Crime & Legal$65,000Youth Development$39,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $222,160 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetLIFEACT: $215,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $190,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND: $175,657 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC: $164,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $159,323 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $154,027 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $136,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC: $121,164 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION: $114,700 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetSTELLA MARIS INC: $100,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetEDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $95,925 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $95,828 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNewbridge Place: $75,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA MAHONING VALLEY: $62,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC: $47,184 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GRIEFCARE PLACE INC: $44,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetCircle Health Services: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIGNATURE HEALTH INC: $38,928 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER: $37,050 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetI AM BOUNDLESS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $24,282 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKOINONIA HOMES INC: $21,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXTENDED HOUSING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Lantern: $17,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,423 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROAD TO HOPE INC: $13,677 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI GEAUGA COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBRIDGES TO DISCOVERY: $5,850 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION IN: $3,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFEACT ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds WOMENSAFE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds STELLA MARIS INC ↗
  • Who funds EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
  • Who funds Newbridge Place ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
  • Who funds YWCA MAHONING VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GRIEFCARE PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Circle Health Services ↗
  • Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
  • Who funds SIGNATURE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds I AM BOUNDLESS INC ↗
  • Who funds BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Cleveland Foundat…The Swagelok Foundati…Woodruff FoundationCommunity West Founda…Higley Fund of the Cl…Mt Sinai Health Care …The George Gund Found…E S Prentiss Foundati…The Sk Wellman Founda…The Louise H & David …The Reinberger Founda…Three Arches Foundati…
The Cleveland FoundationOH53.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ridgecliff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ridgecliff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ridgecliff Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ridgecliff Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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