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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

$174M
Granted FY2024still arriving
122
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$29M
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$239MPhilanthropy$13MEducation$5.0MCommunity Improvement$4.5MEmployment$2.5MPublic Benefit$2.3MInternational$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 122 grants below total $38,549,390, the rows itemized in this filing. The $174,159,105 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $135,609,715 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k80 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+6 grants · $35M
$16,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$26.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ONETEN COALITION INC$150,000
ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY 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
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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $3.0M → 10%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $25k → 14%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $30k → 10%CANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $25k → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES: $38k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $36k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $13k → 14%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ON AGING: $54k → 17%SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC: $11k → 12%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC: $28k → 13%HIBISCUS CHILDRENS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $16k → 10%FORT LAUDERDALE INDEPEDENCE TRAINING & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $16k → 13%OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL: $15k → 13%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE OF AGING: $30k → 17%THE CHILDRENS PLACE AT HOME SAFE INC: $26k → 11%GREATER STARK COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $14k → 13%DIAPER BANK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $25k → 17%OPPORTUNITY PARSH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY: $25k → 13%DIAPER BANK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $15k → 17%AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER AND URBAN LEAGUE INC: $13k → 13%AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER AND URBAN LEAGUE INC: $11k → 13%LAKEWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $64k → 17%URBAN LEAGUE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $23k → 13%URBAN LEAGUE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $20k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $50k → 13%SISTERS HAVEN: $25k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $15k → 17%PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 17%PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 17%PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $12k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $15k → 17%JOSEPHS HOME: $27k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $25k → 17%NEAR WESTSIDE MULTISERVICE CORPORATION: $22k → 17%CARE ALLIANCE: $15k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY: $25k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY: $25k → 17%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND: $38k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $37k → 17%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND: $15k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $15k → 17%CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $15k → 17%HISPANIC ROUNDTABLE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: $15k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $93k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $33k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $33k → 17%THE MANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CLEVELAND: $16k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$259M · 188 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

188
148

Total granted

$259M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+11%

Still filing today

77%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HL
    HEALTHY LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +174% · 80% of their budget
  • AF
    AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $4.4M · revenue +90%
  • The Ohio University Foundation
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.9M · revenue +200%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4.1M · revenue +175%
  • HC
    HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR WOMEN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue -58%
  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +20%
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
Columbus Community Clinical Oncology Program

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,…

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2
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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3
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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4
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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5
Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio

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…

Health
6
Highmark Health

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.

Health
7
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
10
Physicians Care Connection

Physicians careconnection (pcc) mission is to optimize health for individuals experiencing healthcare challenges due to personal and systemic barriers.

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11
Diabetes Partnership of Cleveland

Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.

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12
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Usa-World Congress of Pediatric Cardiolo. 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

323 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. 323 of the 388 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
67
Early backer (in before they grew)
311/323
Grantees still filing
215/323
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CLEVELAND CLINIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $180,569,790 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION+99 more: $12,644,214 · Other+99 moreMartin Memorial Medical Center Inc: $18,439,678 · HealthMartin Memorial Medi…INDIAN RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $11,762,581 · HealthINDIAN RIVER MEMORIA…HEALTHY LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION: $5,100,000 · HealthHEALTHY LAKEWOOD FOU…AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $4,383,094 · HealthAXESS FAMILY SERVICE…HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $2,500,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,133,940 · Health+33 more: $6,640,719 · Health+33 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $7,524,863 · PhilanthropyTHE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION: $4,100,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1,853,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $1,102,500 · Philanthropy+6 more: $1,231,928 · PhilanthropyThe Ohio University Foundation: $2,885,805 · EducationSaint Martin de Porres High School: $523,925 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $466,477 · EducationSAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC: $200,000 · EducationBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $192,500 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $184,000 · Education+12 more: $931,139 · EducationTIDES CENTER: $3,000,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE: $187,500 · Human Services+21 more: $1,024,092 · Human ServicesFAIRFAX RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT: $2,716,716 · Housing & ShelterFAMICOS FOUNDATION: $151,281 · Housing & Shelter+6 more: $231,400 · Housing & ShelterONETEN COALITION INC: $2,400,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $50,000 · Civil Rights
Other$193,214,004Health$50,960,012Philanthropy$15,812,791Education$5,383,846Human Services$4,211,592Housing & Shelter$3,099,397Civil Rights$2,450,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetMartin Memorial Medical Center Inc: $18,439,678 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $7,524,863 over 5y, 38% of budgetHEALTHY LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION: $5,100,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetAXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $4,383,094 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $3,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $2,885,805 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetFAIRFAX RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT: $2,716,716 over 8y, 28% of budgetHITCHCOCK CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $2,500,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetONETEN COALITION INC: $2,400,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,133,940 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1,853,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,669,903 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $1,171,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $1,102,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $794,871 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $544,978 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $531,175 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $523,925 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $489,962 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $466,477 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS AND CAUSES INC: $423,675 over 1y, 39% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $380,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetDIGITALC: $345,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetNORTH COAST HEALTH: $264,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $260,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOHIO HEALTH INFORMATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $240,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $231,050 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION: $225,700 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetAATS FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC: $222,376 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetA WOMAN'S NATION: $218,096 over 1y, 12% of budgetSAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC: $200,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $199,213 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $192,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $187,500 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetNORTH UNION FARMERS MARKET: $186,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $184,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $183,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $178,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $169,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION: $163,029 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER AKRON CHAMBER: $158,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR GENETIC EYE DISEASE: $158,234 over 2y, 51% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $154,125 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMICOS FOUNDATION: $151,281 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSPLANT HOUSE OF CLEVELAND: $151,230 over 5y, 15% 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.

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 Clinic …The Cleveland Foundat…The George Gund Found…Community West Founda…Mt Sinai Health Care …United Way of Greater…The Char and Chuck Fo…Higley Fund of the Cl…The Swagelok Foundati…The Reinberger Founda…Murphy Family Foundat…Akron Community Found…
The Cleveland Clinic FoundationOH373.7× affinity194 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
58report 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
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 388 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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