· Private foundation
The Brandon Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Thea Bowman Center | $5,000 |
| Jacob's Hope | $5,000 |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $5,000 |
| Church of the Saviour | $5,000 |
| Shaker Schools Foundation | $3,000 |
| Club 24 Inc | $2,000 |
| Stella Maris | $2,000 |
| Cleveland Foundation | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SMSTELLA MARIS INC3× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +54%
- SSSHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +4%
- C2CLUB 24 INC3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- FSFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +81%
- CCCHILD CRISIS ARIZONAone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +18%
- BSBEAUMONT SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
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…
Western reserve historical society preserves and uses its collections, historic sites, and museums to inspire people to discover the american experience by exploring the tangible history of northeast ohio.
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 provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…
Lindner center of hope (lcoh) is a mental health center staffed by a diverse team, united in the philosophy that by working together, we can best offer hope for people living with mental illness. the patients and their families are at the…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To preserve, develop, and share historic dunham tavern and its campus as an educational and cultural resource. we aspire for dunham tavern as an institution to provide an urban green space in midtown cleveland, and to return the tavern to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Club 24 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 27 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 STELLA MARIS INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEA BOWMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLUB 24 INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS EMERGENCY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
- Who funds BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
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 · Cardinal Charitable Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Brandon Family 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.
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.