· Private foundation
The Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn Charitable Trust
Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of The Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn Charitable Trust’s FY2017 grant dollars went to The Cleveland Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2017 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k17 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $3,009,181 |
| CARE ALLIANCE HEALTH | $10,000 |
| RAINEY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| STONEBROOK MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FAMILY CONNECTIONS | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $9,000 |
| MEDWORKS | $9,000 |
| CORNERSTONE | $8,300 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH | $7,500 |
| TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT | $7,500 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $7,500 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $7,500 |
| GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER | $7,500 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
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.
Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.
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…
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
The cleveland transformation alliance (cta) is a trusted community partner working to ensure every student is engaged in a high-quality, equitable education. the cta gives families and students the information they need to commit to their…
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…
Minds matter of cleveland helps high school students from low income families prepare for and gain admission to four year college and universities by providing classes and act prep.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF LITERACY ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Christian Home Inc ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND VOLUNTEERS ↗
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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · The George Gund Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · The Sk Wellman Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Third Federal 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 Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn Charitable Trust 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.
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.