· Public charity
Sally and John Morley Family Fund
The organization is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit, of and to carry out the charitable and educational functions of the cleveland foundation.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Sally and John Morley Family Fund’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Cleveland Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Sally and John Morley Family Fund named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $389k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $389,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $407,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $367k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| B2THEWORLD | $37,400 |
| PHOENIX CENTER | $36,400 |
| NAMI AUSTIN CENTRAL TEXAS | $29,600 |
| HOPEWELL | $26,500 |
| MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC | $25,000 |
| YOUTH RISE TEXAS INC | $24,100 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $21,300 |
| ACCESS OPPORTUNITY | $20,100 |
| AVANCE-AUSTIN | $20,000 |
| ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS | $19,600 |
| BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $18,700 |
| MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION | $18,000 |
| LIFEACT | $10,700 |
| BEECH BROOK | $10,000 |
| NEAR WEST SIDE MULTI-SERVICE CORPORATION DBA THE MAY DUGAN CENTER | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
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.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Community reach center's mission is to enhance the health of our community.
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
Hopelink inspires hope and provides support for individuals and families experiencing crisis and behavioral health challenges. through innovative services and a collaborative approach, we strengthen our community one life at a time.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Magnolia Clubhouse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Rise Texas Inc. 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 33 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.
21 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. 21 of the 25 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 THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds B2THEWORLD INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Rise Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ACCESS OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds LIFEACT ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
- Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Beech Brook ↗
- Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Community of Recovering People ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Woodruff Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund · Treu Mart Fund · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · Jewish Federation of Cleveland
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 Sally and John Morley Family Fund 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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