· Private foundation
The Bob & Susan Card Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of THE BOB & SUSAN CARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY PROMISE | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GREENWAY (CLEVELAND) | $18,000 |
| STRINGS ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN | $12,500 |
| LEE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| THE BAYLOR FUND (BAYLOR SCHOOL) | $5,000 |
| ST THERESE OF LISIEUX | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $2,738 |
| 100 BLACK MEN OF BRADLEY COUNTY | $2,000 |
| HUNTER MUSEUM | $1,200 |
| MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WILLIAM HALL RODGERS FUND | $500 |
| KIWANIS CLUB | $400 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $265 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your 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.
31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES7× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +120%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF BRADLEY COUNTY2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +24%
- LULEE UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CGCLEVELANDBRADLEY GREENWAYSone grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue -52% · 48% of their budget
- CFCOMMNUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $24k
- CSCLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -18%
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 barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Private Baptist College
Promotion of commerce
To facilitate ethical stewardship of philanthropic resources by helping connect those resources with the needs of cleveland and bradley county.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Educating students to become servants of christ to make a difference in the world.
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
Bradley university empowers students for immediate and sustained success in their personal and professional endeavors by combining professional preparation, liberal arts and sciences, and co-curricular experiences. alongside our dedication…
Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…
Bradford Academy is Classical and Christ-centered in order to glorify God by educating children to love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love their neighbor as themselves.
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is 100 Black Men of Bradley County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 69 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 CLEVELANDBRADLEY GREENWAYS ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BRADLEY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 100 Black Men of Bradley County Inc ↗
- Who funds National Center for the Development of Boys ↗
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: United Way of the Ocoee Region · Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County · George R Johnson Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Bob & Susan Card Charitable 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.
- American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% 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.