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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $100 → 17%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $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%GINN FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE 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%THE GINN FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

+52%
+26%

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

76 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. 76 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/76
Grantees still filing
51/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPIRIT OF CLEVELAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetCleveland Freedom Project: $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetLAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION MILES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMONTEFIORE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAMICOS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% 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 budgetDIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetOHIO CANCER RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARVARD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetORT AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACHING HEIGHTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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 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

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 Good Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Good Community 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%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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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