· Private foundation
The Covia Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k251 grants · $430k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $314k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC FUND | $100,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $75,000 |
| COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC | $55,000 |
| EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC | $48,000 |
| HALLIBURTON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| MONARCH JOINT VENTURE | $32,500 |
| THE TURN | $30,000 |
| WILDLIFE HABITAT COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC | $16,500 |
| SAFE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $13,036 |
| WEDRON WOLFPACK BASEBALL | $12,000 |
| BELIEVE IN DREAMS | $11,700 |
| CAMP TUCKABATCHEE INC | $10,200 |
| ANTERO FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–24, $497k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
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 5% of The Covia 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 +29% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
432 repeat relationships — 166 still active in FY2024, 266 since wound down; 104 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k 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
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc5× · 2018–2023 · $666k · revenue +97%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $256k · revenue +40%
- HCHALLIBURTON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BCBERRIEN COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +82%
- HCHALLIBURTON CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT INCone grant, 2017 · $50k
- CMCLEVELAND METROPARKSone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Children's services
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Omniarts. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
666 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. 666 of the 1,336 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 Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TURN ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HALLIBURTON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Habitat Council ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA FEF ↗
- Who funds ANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN DREAMS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds FLASHES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
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 Swagelok Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust · The Reinberger Foundation · The Good Community Foundation · Community West Foundation · Hanson Family 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 Covia 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.
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