· Private foundation
The Joseph Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $43k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND | $100,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| COMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY | $43,000 |
| CUAYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $5,500 |
| VETERANS & FIRST RESPONDERS | $2,000 |
| MULTIPLE BREED RESCUE | $100 |
| TRUE BEAUTY DISCOVERY | $100 |
| ALUMINUM CANS FOR BURNED CHILDREN | $100 |
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $80k · revenue +26%
- KSKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2023 · $20k · revenue +5%
- TFTHE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- CKCLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUBone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- SIST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL OF CLEVELANDone grant, 2020 · $25k
- SIST IGNATIUSone grant, 2021 · $12k
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 the organization is to connect students residing in greater cincinnati with post-high school scholarship opportunities to pursue their educational goals
To provide income for distribution in the form of tuition, scholarships and awards for educational purposes.
The Columbus State University Foundation supports educational excellence and the expansion of educational opportunities at Columbus State University. The Foundation attracts, receives, invests, manages, and expends gifts and other…
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…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
To provide investment management and support for the mission and growth of cleveland university-kansas city.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
The purpose of this corporation is to perform the charitable functions of and carry out the charitable purposes of charles r. drew university of medicine and science (cdu), a california nonprofit public benefit corporation. this…
Cleveland public library foundation's mission is to raise philanthropic and advocacy support for the cleveland public library.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Veterans and First Responders. 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 29 years old; the field is 19. 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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 37 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 Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds Educational Assistance Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUB ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JLT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INMOTION ↗
- Who funds THE VETERANS AND FIRST RESPONDERS ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREETS DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARSON STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR KIDS OF WESTLAKE OH ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE BREED RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ALUMINUM CANS FOR BURNED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TRUE BEAUTY DISCOVERY ↗
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 Swagelok Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Joseph 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.