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The Cleveland Family Foundation at a glance

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The Cleveland Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$800kEducation$536kRecreation & Sports$110kPhilanthropy$100kHuman Services$34kReligion$10kYouth Development$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION$25,000
WOMEN'S BOARD OF PITTSBURGH$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
PRESBYTERIAN SENIOR CARE FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FOX FAMILIES CARE: $10k → 11%FOX FAMILIES CARE: $10k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of The Cleveland Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 71%.

The Cleveland Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$556k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+94%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $450k · revenue +11%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +14%
  • SS
    SHADY SIDE ACADEMY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • UH
    UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $350k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • AW
    ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +94%
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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
6
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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7
The Friends of the Pittsburgh Institutions
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8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
Upmc Carlisle

Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.

Health
10
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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11
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…

Education
12
Presbyterian Medical Center of Oakmont Pennsylvania Inc

An esteemed short-stay & long-term skilled nursing facility with rehabilitation, dementia & hospice services that serves persons of all incomes & is committed to excellence & person-centered care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is Adventures in Training With a Purpose. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER: $350,000 · OtherUPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTERCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH: $150,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGHUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - ATHLETIC DEPARTM…+2 more: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $450,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationSHADY SIDE ACADEMYWOMEN'S BOARD OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $26,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL O…ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyFox Families Care: $20,000 · Human ServicesPresbyterian Seniorcare Foundation: $13,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$615,000Education$546,000Health$300,000Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$20,000Housing & Shelter$13,500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $450,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFox Families Care: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWOMEN'S BOARD OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Seniorcare Foundation: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Cleveland Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Cleveland 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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