How much did The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

financialsee attachedattached detail

2021

red crosspregnancypittsburghgreater cincinnaticapital humaneengineeringfair

2022

benevity mgamericanmgamerican onlinered cross-cleonline givingnever surrenderportagefoodbank

2023

silver bayironalger marquettecmty actionmiamibar foundarrowhead

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 176 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k57 grants · $258k
$10k–50k94 grants · $1.7M
$50k–250k22 grants · $1.6M
$250k+3 grants · $1.7M

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$6.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE$800,000
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND$472,000
American Online Giving Foundation$459,857
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA$175,000
DUNELAND YMCA INC$125,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA$104,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$100,000
ASM MATERIALS EDUCATION$100,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FDN PHILANTHROP$100,000
INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL$80,000
YMCA OF MARQUETTE COUNTY$75,000
MAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR$75,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA$75,000
GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY$62,500
THE SALVATION ARMY MIDDLETOWN$55,000

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $722k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$18M · 160 repeat orgs$7.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

160 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 81 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

160

304

Total granted

$18M

$5.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+42%

Still filing today

65%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

NF
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
3× · 2021–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +69%
FO
Friends of Breakthrough Schools
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +16%
CN
College Now Greater Cleveland Inc
4× · 2021–2024 · $972k · revenue +116%

Funded once

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SCHOLARSHIPS (SEE ATTACHED FOR DETAIL)
one grant, 2020 · $440k
BM
Benevity - MGAmerican Online Giving Foundation
one grant, 2022 · $366k
UW
UNITED WAY SEE ATTACHED FOR DETAIL)
one grant, 2020 · $326k

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.

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank

To enable other community organizations to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition

United Way of Central Ohio Inc

Uwco provides resources to help people meet critical basic needs and achieve student success.

Philanthropy

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy

United Way of North Central

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers engages people to serve the community through meaningful volunteer opportunities.

Philanthropy

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

Creating partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services

Greater Lansing Food Bank

Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

Jobsohio

To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.

Employment

Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc

Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.

Food & Nutrition

United Way of Bucks County

United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Settlement Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vista Maria. 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.

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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%1/289

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,276

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.

05the grantee network

270 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

264/270

Grantees still filing

211/270

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$13,677,813Education$3,399,302Philanthropy$2,673,109Animals$2,393,850Food & Nutrition$1,574,600Arts & Culture$939,670Human Services$768,792

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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Nisource Charitable FoundationOH36.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nisource Charitable Foundation · John W Anderson Foundation · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Legacy Foundation Inc · Duluth-Superior Area Community · The Reinberger Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family

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 organisation The Cleveland-Cliffs 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Golden Bear Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832598049 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Golden Bear Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 84% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

270 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation?

More from the funding graph

The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

270 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation?

More from the funding graph