· Private foundation
The C Walder Parke Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $119k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLDENBURG FAMILY FOUNDATION | $97,000 |
| CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| REGINA HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| LES DELICES | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,500 |
| CLEVELAND EUCLID BEACH PARK | $10,924 |
| THEA BOWMAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SISTER OF CHARITY HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACH CHURCH | $5,500 |
| CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY | $5,000 |
| IDEASTREAM | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +59% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
- RHREGINA HEALTH CENTER5× · 2018–2022 · $110k · revenue +20%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +1%
- LCLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SHSHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +15%
- SVST VINCENT CHARITY CARE FUNDone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Shaker museum elevates shaker material culture to animate shaker values and beliefs and inspire individuals and communities to deepen bonds and seek meaningful approaches to social, economic, environmental, and spiritual issues.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
Preservation of historic sites
Operation of shelby county historical museum.
The society of the cincinnati promotes the memory and the ideals of the american revolution and the men who led the american and french forces to victory in the revolutionary war through museum, library and educational programs at anderson…
Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…
Preserve/Maintain Victoria Mansion
The adena mansion & gardens society is committed to the preservation and promotion of amg, the legacy of thomas worthington and family, and to help people connect and understand adena's role and presence in ohio history.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The holden arboretum connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Zoological Society and the most unlike its peers is The Oldenburg Family Foundation. 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 60 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 46 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 REGINA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OLDENBURG FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Bangor ↗
- Who funds LES DELICES ↗
- Who funds THEA BOWMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds BANGOR LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
- Who funds BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR ↗
- Who funds NORTH UNION FARMERS MARKET ↗
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 Oldenburg Family Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Ohio Humanities Council · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 C Walder Parke 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.