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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. We strive to reduce homelessness, support the ministries of Catholic Sisters and resolve health and educational…

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
44
Itemized grants FY2024
47
Organizations funded FY2023
19%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$202,500
Organizations funded a year
47 to 63
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$55M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $334k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving44$1.6M27%
FY202347$2.1M19%
FY202251$1.8M20%
FY202163$1.9M24%
FY202063$1.8M25%
FY201961$2.0M26%
FY201849$1.3M41%
FY201758$2.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$3.8MHealth$2.7MHuman Services$1.7MEducation$1.5MReligion$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.1MEnvironment$659kFood & Nutrition$475kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Enterprise Community Partners Inc$1,177,80080%
Young Womens Christian Association of Cleveland Ohio$875,96073%
Environmental Health Watch$640,500712%
St Vincent Charity Medical Center$441,00060%
Women Religious Archives Collaborative$435,500314%
Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio$380,00081%
Family Connections of Northeast Ohio$361,00075%
Health Policy Institute of Ohio$350,00075%
A Place 4 Me Collaborative$339,000227%
Rid-All Foundation Inc$331,00077%
Funders Together to End Homelessnes$321,00087%
Case Western Reserve University$299,00080%
East 66th Street Services Inc$298,80067%
Sisters of Charity of St Augustine Health System Inc$291,02474%
OhioGuidestone$269,50060%
Burten Bell Carr Development Inc$260,55073%
Regina Health Center$259,02581%
Philanthropy Ohio$257,18573%
Mental Health Services for Homeless Persons Inc$254,80821%
St Ignatius High School of Cleveland$250,1003n/a
Forces4quality Northeast Ohio$235,00045%
Josephs Home$235,00088%
Children's Defense Fund$230,00041%
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry$222,50031%
Cleveland Leadership Center$214,754211%
Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio$200,00062%
Third Sector New England Inc$195,00070%
Community of Hope$195,000716%
Sisters of Notre Dame$171,0555n/a
Campus District Inc$170,000516%
Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland$163,0003n/a
The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland$151,00072%
Sisters of Charity of St Augustine$147,1006n/a
The Collaborative to End Human Trafficking$145,50076%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland$125,00031%
Ursuline Piazza$115,000715%
American Journalism Project Inc$115,00020%
Interfaith Wellness Ministry Inc$101,000627%
Light of Hearts Villa Inc$100,10081%
Kent State University Foundation$100,0002n/a
Esperanza Threads Inc$100,000523%
Cleveland Municipal School District Transformation$83,571410%
Chn Housing Partners$77,00020%
House of Champions$74,00067%
Catholic Community Connection$73,307315%
Catholic Charities Corporation$71,00030%
Children's Hunger Alliance$70,50020%
Task Force on Violent Crime Charitable Fund$70,00034%
Collinwood Neighborhood Catholic Ministries$64,0303n/a
St Aloysius St Agatha Parish$63,0004n/a
Trustees of Boston College$60,00020%
Lakewood Catholic Academy$58,5005n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland$55,0002n/a
Family Promise of Greater Cleveland$55,00022%
Notre Dame College$54,50020%
Village of Healing$51,500215%
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc$50,00014%
Cleveland Citywide Development Corporation$50,00012%
Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network Inc$50,00010%
Reverse Ridealong$50,0001n/a
Centering Space Inc$50,00024%
Blessing House$48,00051%
Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina$48,00030%
Catholic Diocese of Cleveland Health Benefit Trust Agreement$47,5503n/a
Urban Community School$47,53940%
Friendly Inn Settlement Inc$45,00031%
Values-In-Action Foundation$45,00025%
Humility of Mary Housing Inc$45,00041%
Emerald Development & Economic Network$43,50030%
Jennings Center for Older Adults$43,30040%
Snd Operations Corp$42,2001n/a
Men and Women of Central$41,1003n/a
Metro Catholic Parish School$40,0004n/a
Policy Matters Ohio$40,00022%
St Vincent Charity Health Campus Inc$40,000129%
St Paul School$35,6004n/a
Benjamin Rose Institute$35,00020%
Cleveland Peacemakers Inc$34,54013%
Saint Martin de Porres High School$33,10040%
Zelie's Home$30,50032%
Produce Perks Midwest Inc$30,00023%
Heritage and Research Center at Saint Marys Inc$30,0001100%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$30,00010%
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio$28,50020%
The City Club of Cleveland$26,50021%
Magnificat High School$26,3603n/a
Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown$26,0003n/a
St Adalbert Parish$25,0001n/a
Thrive Scholars$25,00010%
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers$25,00011%
Cleveland State University Foundation$23,05120%
Collaboration Station$23,00032%
JALS Inc$20,00028%
Youth Opportunities Unlimited$20,00010%
The Food Trust$20,00010%
Cornerstone of Hope Inc$20,00011%
Cleveland Public Library Foundation$20,00033%
River's Edge-A Place for Reflection and Action$20,00023%
Famicos Foundation$20,00020%
United Way of Greater Cleveland$18,00030%
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$18,00010%
Dominican Sisters of Peace Inc$16,5001n/a
Ursuline College$16,00020%
West Side Catholic Center$15,00010%
Neighborhood Leadership Institute$15,00011%
Greater than Math Inc$15,0001n/a
Leadership Conference of Women$15,0001n/a
Cleveland Culinary Launch Inc$15,0001n/a
Care Alliance$15,00010%
1000 Ties$15,000113%
Kings & Queens of Art$15,0001n/a
Joseph House of Cleveland Inc$15,0001n/a
Media Working Group$15,000116%
Bike Cleveland$15,00013%
Americans Making Immigrants Safe$15,00017%
Sisters of St Joseph of the Third Order of St Francis$14,0001n/a
Sisters of the Humility of Mary$14,0001n/a
Little Africa Food Collaborative Inc$13,5001n/a
Coalition for Juvenile Justice$12,00021%
Lifelong Learning Corporation$11,40021%
The Center for Community Solutions$11,10020%
Pregnant With Possibilities Resource Center$11,00021%
St John School$10,0001n/a
Gmiluth Chasodim (The Hebrew Free Loan Association)$10,00012%
Trials for Hope Inc$10,0001n/a
The Catholic Worker of Akron$10,0001n/a
Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer$10,0001n/a
St Vincent Charity Development Foundation$10,00011%
Mobilemed1 Inc Dba Medworks$10,00011%
Catholic Charities USA$10,0001n/a
Beatitude House Inc$10,00011%
The Cleveland Police Foundation$10,00013%
Cleveland Central Catholic High School$10,0001n/a
Catholic Relief Services$10,0001n/a
Archbishop James P Lyke School$10,0001n/a
Providence House Inc$10,00010%
Incarnate Word Academy$10,0001n/a
Front Steps Housing and Services Inc$9,52711%
Maggie's Place Inc$9,00010%
Village at Marymount$9,00010%
Julie Billiart School$9,0001n/a
Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph Inc$8,0001n/a
The Phillis Wheatley Association Inc$8,00013%
Thrive for Change$8,00011%
Slavic Village Development$7,50010%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$6,00010%
The Cleveland Music School Settlement$6,00010%
Greater Cleveland Partnership$6,00010%
University School$6,00010%
The Superhero Project$6,00014%
Project Hope of Cleveland Inc$6,00012%
University Settlement Inc$6,00010%
Ohio City Incorporated$6,00010%
Cleveland Metropolitan School District$6,0001n/a
Ohio State University Foundation$5,94010%
Jarvis Gibson Foundation$5,2331n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 116 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEnterprise Community Partners Inc: $1,177,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of Cleveland Ohio: $875,960 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetEnvironmental Health Watch: $640,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetSt Vincent Charity Medical Center: $441,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWomen Religious Archives Collaborative: $435,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetCoalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio: $380,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetFamily Connections of Northeast Ohio: $361,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetHealth Policy Institute of Ohio: $350,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetA Place 4 Me Collaborative: $339,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetRid-All Foundation Inc: $331,000 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetFunders Together to End Homelessnes: $321,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $299,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEast 66th Street Services Inc: $298,800 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetSisters of Charity of St Augustine Health System Inc: $291,024 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $269,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBurten Bell Carr Development Inc: $260,550 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetRegina Health Center: $259,025 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPhilanthropy Ohio: $257,185 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetMental Health Services for Homeless Persons Inc: $254,808 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetForces4quality Northeast Ohio: $235,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetJosephs Home: $235,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetChildren's Defense Fund: $230,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLutheran Metropolitan Ministry: $222,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCleveland Leadership Center: $214,754 over 2y, 11% of budgetFund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio: $200,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetThird Sector New England Inc: $195,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity of Hope: $195,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetCampus District Inc: $170,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetThe Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland: $151,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetThe Collaborative to End Human Trafficking: $145,500 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cleveland: $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUrsuline Piazza: $115,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetAmerican Journalism Project Inc: $115,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInterfaith Wellness Ministry Inc: $101,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetLight of Hearts Villa Inc: $100,100 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetEsperanza Threads Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetCleveland Municipal School District Transformation: $83,571 over 4y, 10% of budgetChn Housing Partners: $77,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouse of Champions: $74,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetCatholic Community Connection: $73,307 over 3y, 15% of budgetCatholic Charities Corporation: $71,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hunger Alliance: $70,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTask Force on Violent Crime Charitable Fund: $70,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Cleveland: $55,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNotre Dame College: $54,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVillage of Healing: $51,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetUnited Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 116.

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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 FoundationOH108× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland

How much does Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland give?
Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland reported 44 itemized grants totaling $1,589,000, out of $1,895,545 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 63 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (25%), Health (18%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Enterprise Community Partners Inc ($1.2M), Young Womens Christian Association of Cleveland Ohio ($876k), Environmental Health Watch ($641k).
Does Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio.
Where is Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland based?
Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland is based in OH.

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 158 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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