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Susan & John Turben Foundation at a glance

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Susan & John Turben Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$43k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$358kArts & Culture$273kReligion$167kHealth$166kEnvironment$118kRecreation & Sports$114kYouth Development$107kFood & Nutrition$29kOther$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,027
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME$12,350
IDEASTREAM$8,125
CHURCH OF THE WESTERN RESERVE$7,510
URBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND$5,027
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$4,500
VERO BEACH COMMUNITY CHURCH$4,000
MAPLE LEAF COMMUNITY RESIDENCES$1,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $1k → 7%CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER: $200 → 13%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $1k → 7%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $1k → 7%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $200 → 14%OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%LAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS: $500 → 9%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $10k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $8k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $5k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $4k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $300 → 17%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $1k → 17%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $4k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $3k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CT
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 58 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2022, 51 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
51

Total granted

$1.3M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+45%

Still filing today

72%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UC
    URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +140%
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $95k · revenue +51%
  • I
    IDEASTREAM
    6× · 2017–2022 · $77k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WILLOUGHBY
    one grant, 2017 · $31k
  • MS
    MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY - OH BUCKEYE CHAPTER
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
The College of Wooster

The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…

Education
3
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
4
Lehigh University

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…

Education
5
The Cleveland Institute of Art

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…

Education
6
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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11
John Carroll University

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…

Education
12
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School; the most unlike its peers is Bradford Alumni 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.
04the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 111 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
56/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLFIRST PESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $79,600 · OtherFIRST PESBYTERIAN CHURCHRAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $34,700 · OtherCHURCH OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $33,510 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WILLOUGHBY: $31,000 · OtherFIELDSTONE FARM TRC: $29,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $26,800 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $35,250 · Other+59 more: $259,450 · Other+59 moreUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $95,483 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOO…FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $64,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAK…LAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationLAKE ERIE COLLEG…+16 more: $18,350 · Education+16 moreGREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $33,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER CLEV…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $30,800 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MU…THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $18,750 · Arts & CultureTHE FINE ART…Playhouse Square Foundation: $15,200 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Sq…FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION: $13,000 · Arts & CultureFRANK LLOYD …RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $7,700 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $7,200 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,200 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $13,600 · Arts & Culture+5 moreWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $45,200 · EnvironmentWESTERN R…THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $36,800 · EnvironmentTHE HOLDE…MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $30,500 · EnvironmentMCKEE BOT…+2 more: $2,200 · EnvironmentURBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND: $75,027 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $3,250 · Recreation & SportsIDEASTREAM: $76,625 · Youth DevelopmentCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $67,200 · Philanthropy+1 more: $300 · Philanthropy
Other$729,310Education$202,833Arts & Culture$150,450Environment$114,700Recreation & Sports$78,277Youth Development$76,625Philanthropy$67,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $200,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $95,483 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $76,625 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND: $75,027 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $67,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $64,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $45,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $36,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $35,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $33,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $30,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $30,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $26,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $18,750 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $15,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES: $13,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE: $12,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $7,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $6,400 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEWELL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $3,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROOTED IN TREES: $3,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE CO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KIRTLAND COUNTRY CLUB COMPANY: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAPLE LEAF COMMUNITY RESIDENCES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cradle Foundation: $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetED KEATING CENTER INC: $1,075 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND BALLET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds URBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds TORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗

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 Foundat…Jewish Federation of …The Lozick Family Fou…Jane and Jon Outcalt …The Albert B & Audrey…The Covia FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Sullivan Family FundTriple T FoundationThe Catherine L & Edw…The Swagelok Foundati…The Nordson Corporati…
The Cleveland FoundationOH46.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Covia Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sullivan Family Fund · Triple T Foundation · The Catherine L & Edward a Lozick Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Nordson Corporation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Susan & John Turben Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan & John Turben Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • South Kent School Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Morristown-Beard School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Susan & John Turben Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Susan & John Turben Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 111 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home