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The Figgie Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $450,000 |
| COATS FOR KIDS | $85,000 |
| THE HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY | $32,200 |
| MAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| GILMOUR ACADEMY | $13,000 |
| GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| NOTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| A KID AT ART FOR THE HEART INC | $5,000 |
| THE LITTLEST HEROES | $5,000 |
| THE KAULIG FOUNDATION | $3,983 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ABILIS INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2021 · $85k · revenue +19%- AOANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY3× · 2021–2025 · $76k · revenue +37%
- OCOHIO CONTEMPORARY BALLET3× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- UPUH PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIESone grant, 2017 · $99k
- GAGILMOUR ACADEMY - MUSIC ROOM RENOVATIONone grant, 2020 · $68k
- SCST CHRISTOPHER'S BY-THE-RIVERone grant, 2022 · $60k
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 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,…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
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…
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…
Balletmet will celebrate dance by engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, education programs, and creation of new work.
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.
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.
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
To be a national model for how a presenting organization serves its community, leveraging the worlds best modern and contemporary dance to inspire and educate audiences, local dancers, and community members.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School and the most unlike its peers is Kaulig Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
19 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. 19 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 SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO CONTEMPORARY BALLET ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KAULIG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS DANCE THEATER ↗
- Who funds SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds A KID AT ART FOR THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLEST HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
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 · John P Murphy Foundation · The Laub Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Covia Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Figgie 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.
- Abilis Inc — 74% 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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