· Private foundation
The Fortney Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Les Turner ALS Foundation | $15,000 |
| Kidney Foundation | $10,000 |
| Cleveland Food Bank | $9,000 |
| Coalition to Cure Caplain 3 | $7,500 |
| Playhouse Square | $6,000 |
| The City Mission Cleveland | $5,250 |
| Holy Trinity School | $5,000 |
| Friendship APL | $5,000 |
| Palestinian Children's Relief Fund | $3,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $3,000 |
| The Cleveland Animal Protective League | $3,000 |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation | $2,250 |
| Evans Scholars Foundation | $2,000 |
| Rocky River Assistance Program | $2,000 |
| The Cleveland Music School Settlement | $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 (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 8 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 INC7× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +29%
- CCCleveland Christian Home Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $89k · revenue +81%
- TCTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- UHUniversity Hospitals Case Medone grant, 2018 · $15k
- TNTrue North Cultural Artsone grant, 2017 · $12k
MARCH OF DIMES INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -41%
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.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Standing Up to Pots Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 76 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 Christian Home Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Baby Quest Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KNOWLEDGE IS CANCERS KRYPTONITE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCKY RIVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO CURE CALPAIN 3 ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
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 · Coltman Thomas J Foundation Ta · The Swagelok Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Fortney 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.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.