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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.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$365kEducation$360kHealth$101kHuman Services$83kPhilanthropy$62kRecreation & Sports$35kYouth Development$16kAnimals$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $43k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALUMINUM CANS FOR BURNED CHILDREN$100
TRUE BEAUTY DISCOVERY$100
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VETERANS & FIRST RESPONDERS: $2k → 9%TRUE BEAUTY DISCOVERY: $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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$747k · 14 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$747k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+11%

Still filing today

43%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $80k · revenue +26%
  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2023 · $20k · revenue +5%
  • TF
    THE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND
    2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • CK
    CLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • SI
    ST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL OF CLEVELAND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • SI
    ST IGNATIUS
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
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
Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation

The mission of the organization is to connect students residing in greater cincinnati with post-high school scholarship opportunities to pursue their educational goals

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2
Cleveland State Community College Foundation

To provide income for distribution in the form of tuition, scholarships and awards for educational purposes.

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3
Columbus State University Foundation Inc

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…

Education
4
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
5
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
6
Trustees of Clark University

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…

Education
7
Colorado State University Foundation

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…

Education
8
Cleveland College Foundation Fund Inc

To provide investment management and support for the mission and growth of cleveland university-kansas city.

Education
9
The University of Toledo Foundation

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…

Education
10
Case Western Reserve University

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…

Education
11
Cdu Foundation

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…

Education
12
Cleveland Public Library Foundation

Cleveland public library foundation's mission is to raise philanthropic and advocacy support for the cleveland public library.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland State University Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 37 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Playhouse Square Foundation: $354,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Square Foundation+1 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES: $81,350 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIEScuyahoga community college: $54,500 · Othercuyahoga community collegeCLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUB: $25,000 · OtherCLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUBST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL OF CLEVELAND: $25,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL OF CLE…ORCHARDS LAKEST MARY'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $23,375 · OtherORCHARDS LAKEST MARY'S PREPARA…ST MARYS PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $17,355 · OtherST MARYS PREPARATORY SCHOOLST IGNATIUS: $12,000 · OtherCLIFF KEEN WRESTLING PROGRAM: $10,000 · Other+11 more: $29,972 · Other+11 moreCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $80,500 · EducationCUYAHOGA COMM…KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationKENT STATE UN…THE JLT FUND INC: $11,260 · EducationTHE JLT FUND …CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationCENTRAL STATE…+3 more: $5,500 · EducationEducational Assistance Fund Inc: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentEducational …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIR…+1 more: $300 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican Heart Association Inc: $80,000 · HealthAmerican H…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL M…+2 more: $3,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY: $60,500 · PhilanthropyTHE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND: $3,500 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$357,500Other$278,552Education$124,760Youth Development$110,300Health$93,500Philanthropy$60,500Recreation & Sports$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $354,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEducational Assistance Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $80,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY: $60,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JLT FUND INC: $11,260 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINMOTION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAT THE STREETS DETROIT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTING FOR KIDS OF WESTLAKE OH: $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Swagelok Foundati…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Nord Family Found…The Cleveland Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
The Swagelok FoundationOH15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Joseph Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joseph Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 37 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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