· Private foundation
The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE HELEN F & LOUIS STOLIER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k80 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIELDSTONE FARMS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE | $5,000 |
| MALACHI HOUSE | $4,000 |
| COLLEGE NOW | $3,000 |
| LAW ENFORECEMENT FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $3,000 |
| CLEVELAND KIDS BOOK BANK | $3,000 |
| URSULINE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| HUNGER NETWORK | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $3,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV | $3,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 14 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- TMThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +37%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +50%- MHMALACHI HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- USURSULINE SISTER OF CLEVELANDone grant, 2018 · $20k
- NDNOTRE DAME COLLEGE THRIVEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- SAST ANSELM SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $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.
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…
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.
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.
The mission of united cerebral palsy is to empower children and adults with disabilities to advance their independence, productivity and inclusion in the community.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Our mission is to prepare students for a college preparatory high school that will ensure success and graduation and acceptance into a four year college.
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.
At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.
College now's mission is to increase postsecondary educational attainment through college and career access advising, financial aid counseling and scholarship and retention services.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The breakthrough public schools mission is to provide cleveland area scholars with an education that empowers them to lead lives full of impact and opportunity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Bighearted Blooms. 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 33 years old; the field is 22. 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 13% 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.
82 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. 82 of the 155 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 Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds LIFEACT ↗
- Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Lozick Family Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · Edwin D Northrup II Fund · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Sam J Frankino 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 Helen F & Louis Stolier Family 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.