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The John Milton Costello Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2020
18
Grants FY2020
18
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2020
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 21
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations The John Milton Costello Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202018$28k0%
FY201921$25k14%
FY201819$25k11%
FY201717$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$40kFood & Nutrition$17kHealth$16kEducation$10kHousing & Shelter$9kCrime & Legal$6kEmployment$6kReligion$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jennings Center for Older Adults$8,00040%
Josephs Home$8,00040%
Regina Health Center$8,00040%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$6,50040%
Vocational Guidance Services$6,00040%
Urban Community School$5,50040%
St Malachi Center Incorporated$4,5004n/a
Metro Catholic Parish School$4,5004n/a
Merrick House$4,00040%
Cleveland Society for the Blind$4,00040%
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All grantees of The John Milton Costello Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jennings Center for Older Adults$8,00040%
Josephs Home$8,00040%
Regina Health Center$8,00040%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$6,50040%
Vocational Guidance Services$6,00040%
Urban Community School$5,50040%
St Malachi Center Incorporated$4,5004n/a
Metro Catholic Parish School$4,5004n/a
Merrick House$4,00040%
Cleveland Society for the Blind$4,00040%
Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center$3,00020%
Providence House Inc$3,00030%
OhioGuidestone$1,00010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The John Milton Costello Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJennings Center for Older Adults: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJosephs Home: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRegina Health Center: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVocational Guidance Services: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Community School: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMerrick House: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCleveland Society for the Blind: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Hearing and Speech Center: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence House Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 FoundationOH19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Reuter Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation · The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland

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.

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About The John Milton Costello Foundation

How much does The John Milton Costello Foundation give?
The John Milton Costello Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $28,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The John Milton Costello Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Health (15%).
Who are The John Milton Costello Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Jennings Center for Older Adults ($8k), Josephs Home ($8k), Regina Health Center ($8k).
Does The John Milton Costello Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John Milton Costello Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The John Milton Costello Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Sam J Frankino Foundation, The Reinberger Foundation.
Where is The John Milton Costello Foundation based?
The John Milton Costello Foundation is based in OH.

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 22 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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