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The C Walder Parke Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$231k
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$492kHealth$151kPhilanthropy$122kReligion$61kEnvironment$44kAnimals$40kEducation$35kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2022 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $119k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
$10,924
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$10,000
THEA BOWMAN CENTER$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE JOSEPH'S HOME: $5k → 17%THE JOSEPH'S HOME: $3k → 17%THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $10k → 17%THE THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $5k → 17%THE THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$776k · 20 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
18

Total granted

$776k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+15%

Still filing today

70%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RH
    REGINA HEALTH CENTER
    5× · 2018–2022 · $110k · revenue +20%
  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +1%
  • LC
    LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SH
    SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +15%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT CHARITY CARE FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CULTURAL GARDENS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Maine Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Shaker Museum and Library

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Ohio Bankers League

Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.

Community Improvement
5
Blair County Historical Society

Preservation of historic sites

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6
Shelby County Historical Society

Operation of shelby county historical museum.

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7
The Society of the Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Marquette County Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Victoria Mansion

Preserve/Maintain Victoria Mansion

Arts & Culture
10
Adena Mansion and Gardens Society

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
12
The Holden Arboretum

The holden arboretum connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Zoological Society; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENOBSCOT THEATRE: $145,000 · OtherPENOBSCOT THEATREIndividual grant recipient: $90,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH: $60,500 · OtherOUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCHGREAT POND MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION: $29,500 · OtherGREAT POND MOUNTAIN CONSERVATIONCHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · Other+27 more: $170,924 · Other+27 moreWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $80,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RESERVE HISTORIC…LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDA…CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND RESTORATION SO…OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO HISTORY CONNECTIONSHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIET…LES DELICES: $17,500 · Arts & CultureLES DELICESTHE OLDENBURG FAMILY FOUNDATION: $97,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OLDENBUR…Maine Community Foundation Inc: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMaine Commun…REGINA HEALTH CENTER: $110,000 · HealthREGINA HEAL…MABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR: $4,000 · HealthCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $37,500 · AnimalsTHEA BOWMAN CENTER: $17,500 · Human ServicesJOSEPHS HOME: $7,500 · Human ServicesLiteracy Volunteers of Bangor: $20,000 · Education
Other$521,424Arts & Culture$237,500Philanthropy$122,000Health$114,000Animals$37,500Human Services$25,000Education$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREGINA HEALTH CENTER: $110,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OLDENBURG FAMILY FOUNDATION: $97,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $37,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Bangor: $20,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLES DELICES: $17,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHEA BOWMAN CENTER: $17,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBANGOR LAND TRUST: $13,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetJOSEPHS HOME: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH UNION FARMERS MARKET: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Literacy Volunteers of Bangor ↗
  • Who funds SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LES DELICES ↗
  • Who funds THEA BOWMAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BANGOR LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds MABEL WADSWORTH WOMEN'S HEALTH CTR ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Cleveland Foundat…The Oldenburg Family …John P Murphy Foundat…The O'Neill Brothers …Ohio Humanities Counc…The Lozick Family Fou…The Cleveland Clinic …Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Maine Community Found…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Cleveland FoundationOH18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The C Walder Parke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The C Walder Parke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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