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S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$611k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$328,500
Organizations funded a year
27 to 38
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$5.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$611k16%
FY202427$359k0%
FY202327$399k11%
FY202229$439k28%
FY202137$704k8%
FY202038$571kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$897kArts & Culture$599kHealth$340kEnvironment$272kFood & Nutrition$116kHuman Services$79kPublic Safety & Disaster$67kEmployment$44kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
NY
MA
NV
OH
NJ
CA
VA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
California College of the Arts$543,40060%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History$411,75060%
Democracy Forward Foundation$328,50011%
Cleveland Museum of Art$127,00060%
Ideastream$120,00060%
Lake Erie College$88,00020%
Yellowstone Forever$70,50040%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$56,50060%
Vocational Guidance Services$45,15060%
Circle Health Services$42,50060%
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All grantees of S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
California College of the Arts$543,40060%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History$411,75060%
Democracy Forward Foundation$328,50011%
Cleveland Museum of Art$127,00060%
Ideastream$120,00060%
Lake Erie College$88,00020%
Yellowstone Forever$70,50040%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$56,50060%
Vocational Guidance Services$45,15060%
Circle Health Services$42,50060%
The Centers for Families and Children$42,0001n/a
Womensafe Inc$41,00061%
New York Common Pantry$40,75040%
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$39,30050%
Alameda County Community Food Bank$37,00030%
Bloomingdalefamilyprograminc$36,50041%
Hathaway Brown School$35,65050%
Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park$25,00020%
Trout Unlimited Inc$24,00040%
Friends of the Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center$23,00056%
Case Western Reserve University$22,00030%
Ohio To Erie Trail Fund$20,00029%
First Generation Investors$18,00049%
University Circle Incorporated$17,00060%
Doan Brook Watershed Partnership$12,00033%
Lake County Free Clinic Inc$12,00031%
Ohio End of Life Options$11,00045%
Environmental Health Watch$10,00011%
The Lakeland Foundation$10,00020%
Montessori Development Partnerships$10,0001n/a
Edith Wharton Restoration Inc$9,00030%
The Unionville Tavern Preservation Society$7,50016%
Citizens Climate Education Corp$6,00020%
The Cleveland Institute of Art$5,00010%
Singers Club$4,0002n/a
Compas de Nicaragua$4,0002n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($728k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornia College of the Arts: $543,400 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCleveland Museum of Natural History: $411,750 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDemocracy Forward Foundation: $328,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCleveland Museum of Art: $127,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIdeastream: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLake Erie College: $88,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $70,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $56,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVocational Guidance Services: $45,150 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCircle Health Services: $42,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWomensafe Inc: $41,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNew York Common Pantry: $40,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Reserve Land Conservancy: $39,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlameda County Community Food Bank: $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBloomingdalefamilyprograminc: $36,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHathaway Brown School: $35,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetConservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center: $23,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOhio To Erie Trail Fund: $20,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetFirst Generation Investors: $18,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetUniversity Circle Incorporated: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDoan Brook Watershed Partnership: $12,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetLake County Free Clinic Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOhio End of Life Options: $11,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetEnvironmental Health Watch: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Lakeland Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEdith Wharton Restoration Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Unionville Tavern Preservation Society: $7,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCitizens Climate Education Corp: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cleveland Institute of Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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 Reinberger Founda…Burton D Morgan Found…The George Gund Found…Firstenergy FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Emma R Fox Char Trust…The Swagelok Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Raymond James Charita…
The Cleveland FoundationOH24.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The George Gund Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Swagelok Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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.

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About S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust

How much does S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust give?
S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust reported 25 grants totaling $611,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Arts & Culture (24%), Health (14%).
Who are S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: California College of the Arts ($543k), Cleveland Museum of Natural History ($412k), Democracy Forward Foundation ($329k).
Does S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Reinberger Foundation, Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc.
Where is S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust based?
S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust is based in OH.

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 56 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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