· Private foundation
Shifrin 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 $10k23 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
Anchored by a single position — about 92% of reported assets are held in Apple Computer.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| B'NAI JESHURUN CONGREGATION | $22,340 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $22,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION (CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA) | $18,000 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA | $8,000 |
| LAND STUDIO | $6,000 |
| CLEVELAND BALLET | $5,500 |
| LAKE ERIE NATURE & SCIENCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $4,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $4,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST FORUM | $3,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $2,500 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $2,000 |
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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.
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 Shifrin Family Foundation’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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TMThe Musical Arts Association8× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +45%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +71%
- YFYELLOWSTONE FOREVER7× · 2018–2024 · $27k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- CFCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +3%
- NNNATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSRone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -12%
- YPYELLOWSTONE PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
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…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
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…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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…
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.
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…
To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 62 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.
30 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. 30 of the 37 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 Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
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 George Gund Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Reinberger Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · Kulas Foundation · Perkins Charitable Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings 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 Shifrin 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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