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S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$329k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $329k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$328,500
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART$80,000
THE CENTERS$42,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$30,000
IDEASTREAM$30,000
THE BLOOMINGDALE FAMILY PROGRAM$10,000
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS$10,000
MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS$10,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$10,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$10,000
NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY$10,000
FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS INC$6,000
TROUT UNLIMITED$5,000
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART$5,000
FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF GREATER CLEVELAND$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FIRST GENRATION INVESTORS INC: $5k → 10%FIRST GENRATION INVESTORS INC: $5k → 10%FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS INC: $6k → 17%FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS INC: $2k → 17%THE CENTERS: $42k → 17%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
NY
MA
NV
OH
NJ
CA
VA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 53%.

S Livingston Mather Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 45 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
7

Total granted

$2.6M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+170%

Still filing today

67%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CC
    CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $543k · revenue +17%
  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $412k · revenue +76%
  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $127k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $23k
  • EH
    ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +170%
  • TU
    THE UNIONVILLE TAVERN PRESERVATION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -68%
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
West Creek Conservancy

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…

Environment
2
The Ohio Environmental Council

To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.

Environment
3
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
4
The Central European University

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…

International
5
Cleveland Botanical Garden

The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.

Environment
6
The Holden Arboretum

The holden arboretum connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.

Environment
7
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Cleveland Arts Prize

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Lehigh University

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…

Education
11
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park; 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.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 56 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $233,250 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODUC MERCED FINANCIAL AID: $134,000 · OtherUC MERCED FINANCIAL AIDHOLDEN FORESTS AND GARDENS: $82,000 · OtherHOLDEN FORESTS AND GARDENSUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $71,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSTONEBROOK MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $64,500 · OtherSTONEBROOK MONTESSORI SCHOOLCircle Health Services: $42,500 · OtherWOMENSAFE INC: $41,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $37,000 · OtherThe Centers for Families and Children: $42,000 · OtherVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES: $45,150 · Other+24 more: $270,200 · Other+24 moreCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $543,400 · EducationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE A…LAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $88,000 · EducationLAKE ERIE COLLEGEBLOOMINGDALEFAMILYPROGRAMINC: $36,500 · EducationHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $35,650 · Education+3 more: $38,000 · EducationCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $411,750 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF …CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $127,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF …Ohio To Erie Trail Fund: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $11,500 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $328,500 · Crime & LegalDEMOCRACY FO…YELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $70,500 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $39,300 · EnvironmentCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $25,000 · EnvironmentDOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP: $12,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH: $10,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $6,000 · EnvironmentIDEASTREAM: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $56,500 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $40,750 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,062,900Education$741,550Arts & Culture$570,250Crime & Legal$328,500Environment$162,800Youth Development$120,000Food & Nutrition$97,250

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

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
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 CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Circle Health Services ↗
  • Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
  • Who funds WOMENSAFE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BLOOMINGDALEFAMILYPROGRAMINC ↗
  • Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EASTERN SIERRA AVALANCHE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Ohio To Erie Trail Fund ↗
  • Who funds FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO END OF LIFE OPTIONS ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S Livingston Mather Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report 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.

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home