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The Center for Health Affairs

The mission of the organization is to implement programs and services to improve healthcare throughout northeast ohio.

$452k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.2MEducation$235kPublic Safety & Disaster$163kHuman Services$10k
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $443k
$16,205
Median grant
2
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHWEST GENERAL HEALTH CENTER$44,205
MCMC LLC$39,150
METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER$25,766
MERCY HEALTH LORAIN HOSPITAL$20,719
UH CLEVELAND MEDICAL CENTER$20,204
WEST MEDICAL CENTER$19,416
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$18,205
UH AHUJA MEDICAL CENTER$18,204
AVON HOSPITAL$18,180
FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL$18,161
EUCLID HOSPITAL$17,307
UH ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER$17,205
UH PARMA MEDICAL CENTER$16,205
HILLCREST HOSPITAL$14,807
MARYMOUNT HOSPITAL$14,258
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $66k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $16k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $13k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $13k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $7k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $7k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 25 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
3

Total granted

$3.5M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+13%

Still filing today

16%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +62%
  • LH
    LAKE HOSPITAL SYSTEM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +21%
  • SG
    SOUTHWEST GENERAL HEALTH CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN WEST SHORE
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • NO
    NORTHEAST OHIO NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +13%
  • HH
    HEATHER HILL CARE COMMUNITIES
    one grant, 2018 · $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
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM EAST REGION: $416,637 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM EAST REGIONUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $277,615 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INCTHE METROHEALTH SYSTEM: $254,124 · OtherTHE METROHEALTH SYSTEMMCMC LLC: $195,550 · OtherMCMC LLCLUTHERAN HOSPITAL: $144,770 · OtherLUTHERAN HOSPITALUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $133,869 · OtherMARYMOUNT HOSPITAL INC: $129,183 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $127,284 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $118,417 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $92,387 · Other+16 more: $751,073 · Other+16 moreTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $384,593 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATI…LAKE HOSPITAL SYSTEM INC: $213,890 · HealthLAKE HOSPITAL SYSTEM INCSOUTHWEST GENERAL HEALTH CENTER: $163,012 · HealthSOUTHWEST GENERAL HEALTH CENT…ASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER: $146,552 · HealthASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENT…+1 more: $24,194 · HealthST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $66,103 · Human Services
Other$2,640,909Health$932,241Human Services$66,103

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $384,593 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE HOSPITAL SYSTEM INC: $213,890 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST GENERAL HEALTH CENTER: $163,012 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER: $146,552 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $66,103 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITAL: $24,194 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES INC: $12,575 over 1y, 0.1% 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 THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAKE HOSPITAL SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST GENERAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗

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 Research & Educat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Research & Educational Foundation of the Ohio Hospital AssociationOH19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Research & Educational Foundation of the Ohio Hospital Association · 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 Center for Health Affairs funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Center for Health Affairs. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 32 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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