How much did THE ABINGTON FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE ABINGTON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

workshopstheatreprepcampusmiddleexpansionfacility

2021

foodbankneighborhoodworkforce trainingbuildingexpansiondeveloptherapy

2022

gradenortheastgradesarts enrichmentcleveland studentsmuseumprogramming cleveland

2023

buildinggradeclassroomsresidencies clevelandbankmuseumarts

2024

constructovermanagementexpandsummercareafter

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 75 grants

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

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$36M

Total assets

Largest grants

CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$250,000
THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN$200,000
LAKE VIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION$150,000
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$125,000
THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND$75,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC DBA NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY PRACTICE$75,000
THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES$45,000
SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES$30,000
STELLA MARIS$25,000
AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND$25,000
MALACHI HOUSE$25,000
MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION$25,000
LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND$20,000
EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $869k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.6M · 81 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

81 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.6M

$720k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+38%

Still filing today

70%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $423k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

LV
LAKE VIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +14%
UC
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
2× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +165%
US
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT
5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +77%

Funded once

AI
AFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS USA
one grant, 2020 · $61k
SH
SHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +12%
CC
CLEVELAND CHRISTIAN HOME INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +135%

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

04Your field

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.

Literary Cleveland

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.

Education

Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services

Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers engages people to serve the community through meaningful volunteer opportunities.

Philanthropy

Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement

Engage Cleveland Inc

Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater Cleveland.

Community Improvement

Cleveland Museum of Art

To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.

Arts & Culture

Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation

To promote increased media production in Northeast Ohio using effective strategies for attraction and workforce development including building an artistic infrastructure through film.

Philanthropy

Cleveland Builds Inc

Our mission is to connect motivated individuals in the greater cleveland area with career opportunities in construction.

Education

Cleveland Development Foundation

Developing and improving Cleveland's civic visions.

Community Improvement

Cleveland Leadership Center

Cleveland leadership center builds a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. clc's robust portfolio of programs develops leaders through experiences that inspire and…

Education

Cleveland State University

The CSUF is organized primarily to engage in activities to provide support and services to CSU.

Education

The Children's Museum of Cleveland

The children's museum of cleveland's focus: fostering creativity via exhibits and programming featuring the arts and concept of invention; being a key resource for parents/caregivers; creating powerful tools to enhance school readiness and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections of Northeast Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Motogo. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/90

the rest of the field

11%

1,109/9,728

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.

05the grantee network

86 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

84/86

Grantees still filing

63/86

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,485,825Arts & Culture$1,151,000Education$1,088,334Human Services$869,000Health$584,166Community Improvement$275,000Animals$250,000

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.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH121.2× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · Third Federal Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Murphy Family Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Nord Family 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 340715816 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Abington Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Abington Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ABINGTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

86 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Abington Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE ABINGTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

86 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Abington Foundation?

More from the funding graph