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The Conway Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $37,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL-MIRACLE FUND | $10,000 |
| WESTSIDE CATHOLIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| LAUREL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WELSH ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES | $5,000 |
| GESU PARISH SCHOOL-BOOSTER CLUB | $2,500 |
| NATURE CENTER OF SHAKER HEIGHTS | $2,500 |
| CLEVELAND BOOK BANK | $2,000 |
| GESU PARISH SCHOOL-WOMEN GUILD | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +10%
- CZCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY4× · 2020–2024 · $108k · revenue +53%
- LSLAUREL SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TWTHE WELSCH ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $20k
- LLLEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- UHUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CLEVELAND MIRACLE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
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.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School and the most unlike its peers is The Musical Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 39 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 CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN DREAMS ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BALLET ↗
- Who funds MURPHY IRISH ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
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 Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation · Lincoln Electric Fdn Pfdn
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 Conway 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.
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