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Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland
A ministry of the Sisters of Charity of St Augustine, the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland (SCFC) works to improve the lives of those most in need with special attention to families and children living in poverty.
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.
The 44 grants below total $1,589,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,895,545 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $306,545 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $601k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $962k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Women Religious Archives Collaborative | $202,500 |
| A Place 4 Me Collaborative | $185,000 |
| Enterprise Community Partners Inc | $130,000 |
| Family Connections of Northeast Ohio | $84,000 |
| Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio | $80,000 |
| OhioGuidestone | $67,500 |
| Funders Together to End Homelessness | $61,000 |
| Environmental Health Watch | $52,000 |
| RidAll Foundation | $50,000 |
| Reverse RideAlong | $50,000 |
| Regina Health Center | $31,000 |
| Light of Hearts Villa | $30,000 |
| Interfaith Wellness | $30,000 |
| Joseph and Marys Home | $30,000 |
| Esperanza Threads | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 12 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +153%- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO7× · 2017–2023 · $876k · revenue +244%
- EHENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH7× · 2017–2024 · $641k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- UBUNITED BLACK FUND OF GREATER CLEVELAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +135%
- MAMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +54%
- CCCLEVELAND CITYWIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -74%
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
Collaborate Cleveland invests in local changemakers serving women and advancing gender justice in Cleveland while advocating for the long-term change of policies and practices that have historically disadvantaged women.
Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.
Motivated by faith, catholic social services helps poor and vulnerable seniors and families reach their potential.
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
Greater cleveland community shares (community shares) is a non-profit corporation providing financial and other support for its member non-profit organizations and others located in northeast ohio. member organziations are actively engaged…
As a wholly-owned subsidiary of neighborhood progress, inc. (npi), new village corporation (nvc) develops catalytic real estate projects in joint ventures with community based 501(c)(3) development corporations and private investors. new…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Jarvis Gibson Foundation. 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 43 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
125 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. 125 of the 158 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 ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN RELIGIOUS ARCHIVES COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING IN OHIO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds A PLACE 4 ME COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds RID-ALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST 66TH STREET SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST AUGUSTINE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds REGINA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY OHIO ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds FORCES4QUALITY NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLLABORATIVE TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds URSULINE PIAZZA ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WELLNESS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF HEARTS VILLA INC ↗
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 George Gund Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Community West Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Reinberger Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic 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 Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland 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.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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.