· Public charity
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 122 grants below total $38,549,390 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $174,159,105 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,609,715 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $151k
- $10k–50k80 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+6 grants · $35M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $28,802,439 |
| HEALTHY LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION | $4,600,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC | $717,571 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND | $391,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $343,800 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $335,000 |
| OHIO HEALTH INFORMATION PARTNERSHIP INC | $240,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $205,200 |
| FAIRFAX RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $152,049 |
| ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC | $150,000 |
| ONETEN COALITION INC | $150,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE | $130,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC | $108,295 |
| AATS FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| SAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
188 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2024, 111 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- HLHEALTHY LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +174% · 80% of their budget
- AFAXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC3× · 2017–2020 · $4.4M · revenue +90%
The Ohio University Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $2.9M · revenue +200%
Funded once
- TLTHE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4.1M · revenue +175%
- HCHITCHCOCK CENTER FOR WOMEN INCone grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue -58%
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +20%
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.
Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…
The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
The hospital council of northwest ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Physicians careconnection (pcc) mission is to optimize health for individuals experiencing healthcare challenges due to personal and systemic barriers.
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Usa-World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiatric Surgery. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
323 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. 323 of the 388 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
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
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 Martin Memorial Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAIRFAX RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds ONETEN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AND CAUSES INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIGITALC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OHIO HEALTH INFORMATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds AATS FOUNDATION ↗
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 Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Community West Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Akron Community 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 Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return 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.
- Urban League of Broward County Inc — 44% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Epilepsy Florida Inc — 8% of income from government
- Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jesus House of Hope Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Hispanic Unity of Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Orange Bowl Committee Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pga Tour Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.