· Private foundation
Robert R & Gay C Cull Family 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $100,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| HOSPICE FOR WESTERN RESERVE | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| METROHEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HOLDEN ARBORETUM | $20,000 |
| CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF STONE LAB | $15,000 |
| CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION | $10,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS CLEVELAND CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| EDWIN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of your 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.
50 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CICLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC7× · 2017–2024 · $332k · revenue +8%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association7× · 2017–2024 · $327k · revenue +45%
- CRCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- WRWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +73%
- NWNEAR WEST THEATERone grant, 2017 · $3k
- TTHRESHOLDone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
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.
Credit union provides lending, savings and other financial services to its qualifying members at terms generally better than available in the marketplace and with a service-based emphasis that recognizes the members status as owners
The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…
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.
To promote the rule of law and the legal profession by supporting, empowering and celebrating our members and the community.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the most unlike its peers is Western Reserve Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 67 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 15% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 55 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 CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER CLEVELAND AND EAST CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE INK ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Circle Health Services ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSICAL THEATER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
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 Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Joseph & Nancy Keithley Foundation · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · Ibm International Foundation · The Laub Foundation · The Betty T and David M Schneider 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 Robert R & Gay C Cull Family 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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