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The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
146
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY 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.

02FY2024 · 146 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k100 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE$200,000
SANDSTONE FOUNDATION$200,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS$150,000
FLYING HORSE FARMS$122,000
KHNEMU FOUNDATION INC$100,000
C2F3$75,000
EAST 66TH STREET SERVICES$75,000
ENLIGHTENED SOLUTIONS$50,117
BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES$50,000
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND$50,000
THE GATHERING PLACE$50,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$50,000
LEGALWORKS INC$44,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $25k → 6%JUST CHOICE: $20k → 15%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $25k → 6%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $25k → 6%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $25k → 6%JUVENILE JUSTICE COALITION: $25k → 15%FAITH CHOICE OHIO: $42k → 15%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $25k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $20k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $20k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $20k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $20k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $20k → 17%PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $30k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%THEA BOWMAN CENTER: $20k → 17%ENLIGHTENED SOLUTIONS: $200k → 17%ENLIGHTENED SOLUTIONS: $200k → 17%ENLIGHTENED SOLUTIONS: $100k → 17%ENLIGHTENED SOLUTIONS: $80k → 17%ENLIGHTENED SOLUTIONS: $54k → 17%ENLIGHTENED SOLUTIONS: $50k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $40k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $40k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $35k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 17%RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $25k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $25k → 17%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $35k → 17%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $35k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $30k → 17%ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $31k → 17%ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $30k → 17%ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $30k → 17%PASSAGES CONNECTING FATHERS AND SONS: $25k → 17%ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE: $25k → 17%PASSAGES CONNECTING FATHERS AND SONS: $25k → 17%GOODS BANK NEO: $21k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $50k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $30k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $50k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $25k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $25k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $25k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 261 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

261 repeat relationships — 117 still active in FY2024, 144 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

261
142

Total granted

$31M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+28%

Still filing today

76%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • LS
    LAND STUDIO INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +321%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +50%
  • TR
    THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE METROHEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • BARD COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +256%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $63k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
2
Cleveland Arts Prize

The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…

Arts & Culture
3
Greater Columbus Arts Council

Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.

Arts & Culture
4
Engage Cleveland Inc

Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater Cleveland.

Community Improvement
5
Lead Ohio

At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.

Education
6
Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation

To promote the increase of media production in Northeast Ohio using effective strategies for attraction and workforce development including building an artistic infrastructure through film, achieve increased economic development in…

Philanthropy
7
Cleveland Mediation Center

Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…

Crime & Legal
8
Neighborhood Progress Inc

Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…

Community Improvement
9
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Cleveland Jobs With Justice

To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.

Education
12
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Boudiccas Peace Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Supportive Housing & Life S…Cleveland Community Develop…Food Access & Community Res…Veterans Service Organizati…Family Charitable Foundatio…Jewish Federation Supportin…Catholic Community Support …Sports & Recreation ClubsLorain County Community Org…Public Charter SchoolsHealthcare Systems and Foun…Arts & Culture Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%15%5–10yr17%22%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr21%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%16%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr21%23%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/326
the rest of the field
13%
2,615/20,458

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.

04the grantee network

308 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. 308 of the 434 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
100
Early backer (in before they grew)
299/308
Grantees still filing
217/308
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS — $2,985,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSLAND STUDIO INC — $1,485,000 · OtherLAND STUDIO INC+103 more — $9,504,805 · Other+103 moreSAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC — $2,000,000 · EducationSAY YES CLEVELAND SC…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $1,381,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE…FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $1,000,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHRO…+16 more — $1,180,750 · Education+16 moreTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $1,040,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AND ROLL H…BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $775,000 · Arts & CultureBECK CENTER FOR THE…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $525,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF…ARTS IMPACT INC — $410,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IMPACT INCFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY — $355,000 · Arts & CultureFRONT EXHIBITION CO…KARAMU HOUSE INC — $200,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC — $195,000 · Arts & Culture+23 more — $1,482,976 · Arts & Culture+23 moreEnlightened Solutions — $684,367 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE — $190,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CLEVELAND — $163,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER — $155,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC — $145,000 · Human ServicesELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE — $115,500 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesMONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS — $103,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHEA BOWMAN CENTER — $85,100 · Human ServicesMERRICK HOUSE — $80,000 · Human Services+9 more — $420,000 · Human ServicesMAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC — $240,000 · HealthCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $205,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · HealthTHE ABRAHAM J AND PHYLLIS KATZ CORD BLOOD FOUNDATION — $98,000 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC — $90,000 · HealthSIGNATURE HEALTH INC — $85,000 · HealthSTEVEN G CANCER FOUNDATION — $83,500 · HealthPEEL DEM LAYERS BACK — $44,750 · Health+4 more — $148,000 · HealthSANDSTONE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $35,250 · PhilanthropyTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $254,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $200,000 · Community ImprovementEAST 66TH STREET SERVICES INC — $180,000 · Community ImprovementGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers — $93,000 · Community ImprovementVILLAGE OF HEALING — $80,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $80,000 · Community ImprovementOHIO CITY INCORPORATED — $56,500 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE — $35,000 · Community Improvement
Other$13,974,805Education$5,561,750Arts & Culture$5,183,476Human Services$2,350,967Health$1,294,250Philanthropy$1,160,250Community Improvement$978,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC — $2,000,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetLAND STUDIO INC — $1,485,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $1,381,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $1,040,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $1,000,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSANDSTONE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 5y, 91% of budgetBECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $775,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetEnlightened Solutions — $684,367 over 6y, 36% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $525,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND — $460,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS — $415,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetARTS IMPACT INC — $410,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY — $355,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS — $288,800 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $254,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC — $240,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetMOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS — $220,000 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO — $213,160 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $205,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetKARAMU HOUSE INC — $200,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT — $200,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $200,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC — $195,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE — $190,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $180,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA INC — $180,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetEAST 66TH STREET SERVICES INC — $180,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetLEGAL WORKS INC — $167,750 over 5y, 17% of budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND — $163,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC — $160,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY — $160,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER — $155,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE INK — $145,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $145,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE — $145,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC — $145,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS — $144,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetJULIA DE BURGOS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER — $126,750 over 7y, 25% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB — $124,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE — $115,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC — $110,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND — $110,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED BLACK FUND OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $106,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING — $105,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $104,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS — $103,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budget
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 SAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds SANDSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Enlightened Solutions ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds ARTS IMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds FRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS ↗
  • Who funds POLICY MATTERS OHIO ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KARAMU HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANZA INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST 66TH STREET SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCE CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗

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.

The George Gund Found…The Cleveland Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…The Abington Foundati…The Nord Family Found…Higley Fund of the Cl…Martha Holden Jenning…Jewish Federation of …Treu Mart FundJohn P Murphy Foundat…The Swagelok Foundati…Third Federal Foundat…
The George Gund FoundationOH248.9× affinity144 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Treu Mart Fund · John P Murphy Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Third Federal 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 Char and Chuck Fowler 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
87report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 434 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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