· Public charity
Shoes and Clothes for Kids
The mission of SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS is to break barriers to school attendance by providing new shoes, clothes, and school supplies for students in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $33,375 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,866,445 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,833,070 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MURTIS TAYLOR | $6,125 |
| NEW SARDIS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,500 |
| FAMICOS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER | $2,500 |
| BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,500 |
| LEXINGTON BELL COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT | $2,500 |
| URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| WILLIAM E SANDERS FAMILY CENTER | $1,875 |
| MT SINAI BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,875 |
| THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN | $1,750 |
| EAST END NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $1,250 |
| MERRICK HOUSE | $1,250 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $1,000 |
| FRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT CORP | $750 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2023, 16 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 FY2023, 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
- UCURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $61k · revenue +164%
- MHMERRICK HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +33%
- FFFAMICOS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TTTHE TEACHERS DESK INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $804k · revenue +50%
- CHCLEVELAND HEIGHTS-UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT6× · 2018–2024 · $93k
- EHEUCLID HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2018–2021 · $82k
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 prepare students for a college preparatory high school that will ensure success and graduation from a four year college
Our mission is to prepare students for a college preparatory high school that will ensure success and graduation and acceptance into a four year college.
The Prep Schools mission is to seek to provide a high quality, academically rigorous education for the college bound scholar. We empower our scholars to think critically, assume social responsibility, and serve for themselves and the…
Our vision is to create a culture of high expectations for behavior and academics through rigorous, research-based curricula and a focus on achievement. It is our goal that Ohio College Preparatory School scholars will attend a college…
North Columbus Preparatory Academy is a public, community school. We are our own school district sponsored by the St. Aloysius Orphanage (Charter School Specialists) which provides oversight and enforces academic, fiscal, and legal…
To provide opportunities for educational choice to students and families of this community. The organization is primarily engaged in providing instructional services to enrolled students in grades K-8.
Our vision is to create a culture of high expectations for behavior and academics through rigorous, research-based curricula and a focus on achievement. It is our goal that Canton College Preparatory School scholars will attend a college…
The purposes for which the corporation was formed, as stated in its Articles of Incorporation, are to establish and run a charter school in the state of Ohio for the benefit of the children, of the community, and to engage in any other…
Lakeshore Intergenerational School is the second replicationof the award-winning Intergenerational School that opened on Cleveland 's east side in 2000. The school features a curriculum where students learn at their own pace and knowlege…
The cleveland transformation alliance (cta) is a trusted community partner working to ensure every student is engaged in a high-quality, equitable education. the cta gives families and students the information they need to commit to their…
Emmanuel's mission is to provide instruction in god's word and conventional instruction that meets or exceeds state standards for all who desire a biblical foundation. to serve children who historically have been defined as at-risk of not…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Jbs Lunch and Literacy Outreach Center for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
84 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.
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 TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
- Who funds MURTIS TAYLOR HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERRICK HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Noble Academy Cleveland ↗
- Who funds CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FAMICOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND CHESED CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds BEST COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds The Pencil Box Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds Lexington Bell Community Center ↗
- Who funds EAST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The George Gund Foundation · Medwish Medworks · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return
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 Shoes and Clothes for Kids 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.