· Private foundation
Sol & Doris R Swiss Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Creativity Explored | $7,000 |
| Lorain Coubnty Safe Harbor | $1,000 |
| ACLU of Ohio Foundation | $1,000 |
| Habitot Children's Museum | $1,000 |
| College and Community Fellowship | $500 |
| SEPA | $425 |
| Disability Rights Ohio | $400 |
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 (FY19–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +34%
- TCTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +11%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- UAURGENT ACTION FUND FOR WOMEN'S RIGHone grant, 2021 · $12k
- CFCOMMUNICATION FIRSTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +540%
- AWAUTISTIC WOMEN & NONBINARY NETWORKone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
Advocate for and effect systemic change to ensure justice and equity for all ohioans.
Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
The league of women voters is a nonpartisan political organization encouraging informed and active participation in government. it influences public policy through education and advocacy. we never support or oppose any political party or…
To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.
Advocates for basic legal equality, inc. (able) is a non-profit law firm that provides high quality legal assistance in civil matters to help eligible low-income individuals and groups in western ohio achieve self-reliance, and equal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Habitot Childrens Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 31 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 CREATIVITY EXPLORED INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNICATION FIRST ↗
- Who funds WORKMENS CIRCLE EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY SAFE HARBOR CORP ↗
- Who funds Habitot Childrens Museum ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds DOCS IN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds TASH 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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Sol & Doris R Swiss 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.
- Spoke Art Inc (Fka Medicine Wheel Productions Inc) — 22% 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.