· Private foundation
S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $73,400 |
| UC MERCED FINANCIAL AID | $55,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $34,000 |
| HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL | $16,400 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY | $12,300 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY | $10,000 |
| HOLDEN FORESTS AND GARDENS | $10,000 |
| IDEASTREAM | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $9,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES | $6,650 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EASTERN SIERRA AVALANCHE CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 53% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 18 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
- CCCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS5× · 2020–2024 · $533k · revenue +17%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY5× · 2020–2024 · $402k · revenue +76%
- IIDEASTREAM5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $23k
- EHENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +170%
- TUTHE UNIONVILLE TAVERN PRESERVATION SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -68%
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.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.
Preserving and enhancing the scenic and environmental quality of the ecosystem of the chagrin river, lake erie and other ohio watersheds in a manner which assures a sustainable future for people, plants and animals.
Western reserve historical society preserves and uses its collections, historic sites, and museums to inspire people to discover the american experience by exploring the tangible history of northeast ohio.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
Lake erie nature & science center educates and inspires each of us to understand, appreciate, and take responsibility for our natural world. serving more than 100,000 people each year with animal exhibits and programs, planetarium shows,…
To preserve, develop, and share historic dunham tavern and its campus as an educational and cultural resource. we aspire for dunham tavern as an institution to provide an urban green space in midtown cleveland, and to return the tavern to…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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…
America's river roots' mission is a quest to forge deeper connections to america's inland river waterways, aiming to highlight the pivotal role the ohio river played in shaping our nation. sparked by america's 250th anniversary, this…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the most unlike its peers is Singers Club. 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 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 52 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 CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WOMENSAFE INC ↗
- Who funds Circle Health Services ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGDALEFAMILYPROGRAMINC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EASTERN SIERRA AVALANCHE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ohio To Erie Trail Fund ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH ↗
- Who funds THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO END OF LIFE OPTIONS ↗
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 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
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 S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust 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.
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
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.