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The Good Community 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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$250kArts & Culture$205kRecreation & Sports$203kPublic Benefit$168kCommunity Improvement$158kYouth Development$50kPhilanthropy$50kReligion$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$78k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CREW FOUNDATION$5,000
HARVARD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER$500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCA'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%HISPANIC ROUNDTABLE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: $3k → 17%OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCA'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%HELP FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 17%GREATER CLEVELAND DELTA FOUNDATION LIFE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%MATTHEW'S LENDING LIBRARY: $100 → 17%GIRLS WITH SOLE: $100 → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $39k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $7k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $100 → 17%HARVARD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $500 → 17%HARVARD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $500 → 17%HARVARD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $500 → 17%SPIRIT OF CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%YMCA OF CLEVELAND OHIO INC: $100 → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $16k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $120 → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$812k · 23 repeat orgs$400k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
78

Total granted

$812k
$400k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+25%

Still filing today

87%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • GC
    GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION)
    5× · 2017–2021 · $119k · revenue +12%
  • GL
    GLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $105k · revenue +283%
  • KH
    KARAMU HOUSE INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $74k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • TM
    The Musical Arts Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $82k · revenue +27%
  • TT
    THE TED GINN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $56k
  • GA
    GINN ACADEMYGINN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $49k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Literary Cleveland

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.

Education
3
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
4
Cleveland Development Foundation

Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.

Community Improvement
5
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
6
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
7
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
8
Engage Cleveland Inc

Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater Cleveland.

Community Improvement
9
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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10
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
11
Greater Cleveland Sports Commission

The mission of the greater cleveland sports commission is to measurably improve the economy of greater cleveland and enrich the community by attracting, creating, managing and enhancing significant sporting and competitive events.

Unclassified
12
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Marilyns Voice Inc. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr16%13%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr19%21%35–55yr19%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%10%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr19%11%35–55yr19%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/84
the rest of the field
13%
1,298/9,734

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.

04the grantee network

76 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. 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/76
Grantees still filing
51/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TED GINN FOUNDATION — $56,000 · OtherTHE TED GINN FOUNDATIONGINN ACADEMYGINN FOUNDATION — $49,000 · OtherGINN ACADEMYGINN FOUNDATIONBETH ISRAEL - THE WEST TEMPLE — $25,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL - THE WEST TEMPL…UNITED BLACK FUND OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $22,903 · OtherUNITED BLACK FUND OF GREATER…CLEVELAND METROPARKS — $14,530 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA-GREATER CLEVELAND — $11,000 · OtherRAINBOW BABIES AND CHILDREN HOSPITAL — $10,200 · Other+49 more — $116,529 · Other+49 moreGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY — $105,000 · EducationGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBA…THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND — $48,920 · EducationTHE CITY CLUB OF CLE…FRIENDS OF GINN ACADEMY CORPORATION — $19,600 · EducationFRIENDS OF GINN ACAD…CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $13,000 · EducationCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY C…VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION — $9,600 · Education+8 more — $19,250 · Education+8 moreGINN FOUNDATION — $176,703 · Human ServicesGINN FOUNDATIONSPIRIT OF CLEVELAND INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL CLEVELAND — $10,000 · Human Services+9 more — $6,500 · Human ServicesThe Musical Arts Association — $81,750 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Art…KARAMU HOUSE INC — $74,420 · Arts & CultureKARAMU HOUSE IN…+4 more — $9,040 · Arts & Culture+4 moreThe CREW Foundation — $73,750 · Community ImprovementThe CREW Foun…UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED — $25,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY CI…Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers — $17,300 · Community ImprovementGreater Cleve…DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE — $11,770 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN CLEV…SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT — $10,000 · Community ImprovementSLAVIC VILLAG…UNION MILES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $2,000 · Community ImprovementGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) — $118,600 · Public BenefitGMILUTH CHA…BPA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $38,099 · PhilanthropyGREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $16,000 · PhilanthropyMONTEFIORE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 · Philanthropy+4 more — $2,600 · Philanthropy
Other$305,162Education$215,370Human Services$203,203Arts & Culture$165,210Community Improvement$144,820Public Benefit$118,600Philanthropy$65,199

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGINN FOUNDATION — $176,703 over 6y, 64% of budgetGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) — $118,600 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY — $105,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $81,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKARAMU HOUSE INC — $74,420 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetThe CREW Foundation — $73,750 over 5y, 20% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND — $48,920 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBPA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $38,099 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED BLACK FUND OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $22,903 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers — $17,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $16,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE — $11,770 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPIRIT OF CLEVELAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND — $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION — $9,600 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMONTEFIORE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNION MILES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMICOS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOhioGuidestone — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Freedom Project — $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $4,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC — $4,440 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPPLEWOOD CENTERS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFAX RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT — $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO CANCER RESEARCH ASSOCIATES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACHING HEIGHTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOACH SAM'S INNER CIRCLE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND DELTA FOUNDATION LIFE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…The George Gund Found…The Albert B & Audrey…The Char and Chuck Fo…Jewish Federation of …Saint Lukes Foundatio…Dominion Energy Chari…Burton D Morgan Found…George Codrington Fdn…The Swagelok Foundati…John P Murphy Foundat…The Cleveland Clinic …
The Cleveland FoundationOH71.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · The Swagelok Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

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 Good Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Good Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Good Community 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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