· Private foundation
The Cyrus Eaton 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUGWASH PARK COMMISSION | $60,000 |
| US PUGWASH | $20,000 |
| NORTH CUMBERLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| CENTRE FOR LOCAL PROSPERITY | $5,000 |
| HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $5,000 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY | $3,500 |
| DRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CITY FRESH | $3,000 |
| AMIS | $3,000 |
| FOSTERING HOPE | $3,000 |
| LAND STUDIO INC | $3,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,600 |
| VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $2,500 |
| UPCYCLE PARTS SHOP | $2,500 |
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 US giving — 76% of grant dollars ($649k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 24% that went abroad ($203k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% 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.
Beyond the US — 24% of all-years giving ($203k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 14 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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× · 2019–2023 · $35k · revenue +27%
- HNHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +29%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- WCWEST CREEK LAND CONSERVANCYone grant, 2019 · $3k
- JHJOSEPH HOUSE OF CLEVELAND INCone grant, 2023 · $3k
- CWCLEVELAND WATER ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +430%
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.
The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
The Land is a local news startup that reports on Clevelands neighborhoods and inner ring suburbs. We deliver in-depth stories that foster accountability, inform the community, and inspire people to take action.
The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…
To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…
To operate as a community development corporation with the goal to transform disadvantaged neighborhoods through five primary areas: physical revitalization, social revitalization, economic development, neighborhood safety, and leadership…
Cleveland public market corporations mission is to preserve the city's public market tradition while making the local food system more accessible, equitable, and diverse.
Our mission is to connect motivated individuals in the greater cleveland area with career opportunities in construction.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is The Professional School of Cosmetol. 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 26 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 103 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 US PUGWASH ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMENSAFE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
- Who funds Hannahs Home ↗
- Who funds LEGAL WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ARTS EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE INK ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds FOOTPATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS ↗
- Who funds Finding Blank Inc ↗
- Who funds Kulture Kids ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE 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 Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Community West Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · Cavaliers Youth Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Abington 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 Cyrus Eaton 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.
- 2ND Act Org Inc — 5% 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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