· Private foundation
The Abington Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k66 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k6 grants · $675k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN | $200,000 |
| LAKE VIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC DBA NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY PRACTICE | $75,000 |
| THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND | $75,000 |
| THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES | $45,000 |
| SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES | $30,000 |
| AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND | $25,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| STELLA MARIS | $25,000 |
| MALACHI HOUSE | $25,000 |
| BEECH BROOK | $20,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $984k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
80 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $423k 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
- LCLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +26%
- UCURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL2× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +140%
- PEPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM3× · 2021–2023 · $202k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- AIAFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS USAone grant, 2020 · $61k
- CCCleveland Christian Home Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +198%
- SHSHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +128%
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.
The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…
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.
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.
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.
Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
To welcome all to our music and arts community to learn, create, celebrate and heal.
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…
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…
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…
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Smart Development Inc. 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 44 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
103 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. 103 of the 124 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 SAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC ↗
- Who funds MOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Spanish American Committee ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF LITERACY ↗
- Who funds SMART DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
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 · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · The Reinberger Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Nord Family Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Treu Mart Fund
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 The Abington 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.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% 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.