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The Hankins Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $426k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Western Reserve Academy | $30,000 |
| Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges | $30,000 |
| Cleveland Play House | $25,000 |
| Hathaway Brown School | $20,000 |
| Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging | $20,000 |
| American Red Cross | $20,000 |
| Circle Health Clinic | $20,000 |
| HonorHealth Foundation | $20,000 |
| Beech Brook | $20,000 |
| Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center | $16,000 |
| South Central Community Foundation | $15,000 |
| Salvation Army | $15,000 |
| Achievement Center for Children | $15,000 |
| Cleveland Sight Center | $15,000 |
| Lawrence Arts Center | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
64 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- WRWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +56%
- BBBeech Brook5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +3%
- FFFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- WAWomens Auxillary to Childrens Medical Center of Dallasone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -5%
- BHBaylor Heart & Vascular Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
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.
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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 Armstrong Bradfield Preschool Association. 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 55 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 93 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 WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Beech Brook ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds 5 4 7 ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ARMSTRONG BRADFIELD PRESCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds NAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA ARTS CIRCLE LTD ↗
- Who funds EDWINS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Swagelok Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds
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 Hankins 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.
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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