· Private foundation
The Cleveland Family Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k8 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HACKLEY SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $31,668 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY TREASURERS OFFICE | $30,000 |
| CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS | $25,000 |
| OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| BOYS CLUB OF MOUNT KISCO INC - BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $14,068 |
| NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| OSSINING CHILDRENS CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WATERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| WATERVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| BEDFORD-KATONAH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| THE WINDWARD SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of The Cleveland Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
- HSHACKLEY SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $65k · revenue +43%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +80%
- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- TRThe Rippowam Cisqua School Incone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +24%
- ANAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $15k
- NENEW ENGLAND MUSIC CAMP ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +59%
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Windward school is a dynamic college-preparatory school that challenges each student to achieve excellence in a nurturing, inclusive community. windward teachers, parents, and administrators work together to inspire our students to be…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of new west charter school is to provide an academically rigorous, highly individualized education for 21st century students in grades 6 - 12. in the decades to come, personal success will require increasingly high levels of…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Andrew K Dwyer 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.
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 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 33 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
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 GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HACKLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Westchester Medical Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds OSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MU OF DKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD-KATONAH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND MUSIC CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS SYNDROME CHARITABLE FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS OF GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JCCA EDENWALD ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
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 New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase 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 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.
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.
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.