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The Cyrus Eaton Foundation at a glance

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The Cyrus Eaton Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$168kInternational$125kHuman Services$106kArts & Culture$86kFood & Nutrition$73kEnvironment$48kCommunity Improvement$46kReligion$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CITY FRESH$3,000
FOSTERING HOPE$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
AMIS$3,000
LAND STUDIO INC$3,000
PROJECT HOPE FOR THE HOMELESS$2,600
CLEVELAND ENGINEERING SOCIETY$2,500
NEPTUNE THEATRE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CARING FOR KIDS: $2k → 13%HANNAH'S HOME: $3k → 9%HANNAH'S HOME: $3k → 9%HANNAH'S HOME: $2k → 9%HANNAH'S HOME: $2k → 9%JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME: $3k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $3k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME: $3k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $2k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $2k → 17%FOSTERING HOPE: $3k → 17%FOSTERING HOPE: $2k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $3k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $3k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $3k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $3k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $2k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $2k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $2k → 17%HOMELESS HOOKUP: $3k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $2k → 17%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.

Beyond the US: 24% of all-years giving ($203k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$203k · 14 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$766k · 59 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
30

Total granted

$766k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+26%

Still filing today

68%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $35k · revenue +8%
  • HN
    HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +9%
  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEST CREEK LAND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CLEVELAND HTS PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • JH
    JOSEPH HOUSE OF CLEVELAND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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2
Cleveland Leadership Center

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…

Education
3
Cleveland Mediation Center

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…

Crime & Legal
4
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.

Education
5
The Land Cle

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Cleveland Arts Prize

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Cleveland Jobs With Justice

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.

Education
8
Cleveland Museum of Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
9
Neighborhood Progress Inc

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…

Community Improvement
10
City Fields

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…

Community Improvement
11
Cleveland Public Market Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
12
Cleveland Builds Inc

Our mission is to connect motivated individuals in the greater cleveland area with career opportunities in construction.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 103 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
47/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUGWASH PARK COMMISSION: $157,500 · OtherPUGWASH PARK COMMISSIONCENTRE FOR LOCAL PROSPERITY: $32,000 · OtherCENTRE FOR LOCAL PROSPERITY+68 more: $301,050 · Other+68 moreUS PUGWASH: $120,000 · Public BenefitUS PUGWASHWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $14,500 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE…JOSEPHS HOME: $12,000 · Human ServicesJOSEPHS H…Hannahs Home: $11,900 · Human ServicesHannahs H…CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTO…Near Westside MultiService Corp: $7,500 · Human ServicesNear West…GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $7,500 · Human ServicesGLOBAL CL…FOSTERING HOPE: $5,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING…HOMELESS HOOKUP: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $21,000 · Food & NutritionCLEVELAND ARTS EDUCATION CONSORTIUM: $11,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $8,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND: $7,500 · Arts & CultureKulture Kids: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTalespinner Childrens Theatre Inc: $4,550 · Arts & CultureMAELSTROM COLLABORATIVE ARTS FORMERLY THEATER NINJAS INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $2,000 · Arts & CultureZYGOTE PRESS INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE ERIE INK: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOOTPATH FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentFinding Blank Inc: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LEADERS PROGRAM: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $15,500 · EnvironmentCROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER: $4,500 · EnvironmentSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $4,000 · EnvironmentCity Fresh: $3,000 · EnvironmentCLEVELAND WATER ALLIANCE: $2,500 · EnvironmentLAKE ERIE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · Environment
Other$490,550Public Benefit$120,000Human Services$73,900Food & Nutrition$56,000Arts & Culture$43,550Youth Development$35,500Environment$32,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUS PUGWASH: $120,000 over 6y, 77% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $12,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJOSEPHS HOME: $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHannahs Home: $11,900 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLEGAL WORKS INC: $11,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCLEVELAND ARTS EDUCATION CONSORTIUM: $11,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE ERIE INK: $10,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH CHALLENGE: $10,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $9,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAND STUDIO INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $8,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND: $7,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFOOTPATH FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS: $7,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFinding Blank Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKulture Kids: $6,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTalespinner Childrens Theatre Inc: $4,550 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER: $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MEETING PLACE LEARNING CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION MILES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLiterary Cleveland: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCity Fresh: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCLEVELAND ENGINEERING SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOMELESS HOOKUP: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMOAB HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUPCYCLE PARTS SHOP: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND WATER ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMMINGBIRD PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget2ND ACT ORG INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • 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 FOOTPATH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
  • Who funds TRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS ↗
  • Who funds Finding Blank Inc ↗
  • Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Kulture Kids ↗

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…The Char and Chuck Fo…The George Gund Found…The Swagelok Foundati…The Reinberger Founda…Murphy Family Foundat…Community West Founda…Higley Fund of the Cl…The Sam J Frankino Fo…Cavaliers Youth Found…The Sk Wellman Founda…The Abington Foundati…
The Cleveland FoundationOH80.9× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 2ND Act Org Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to The Cyrus Eaton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Cyrus Eaton 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 103 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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