· Private foundation
The Joseph H & Ellen B Thomas Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k57 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY CIRCLE | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $44,905 |
| CHILDREN'S GUILD | $25,950 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE | $10,000 |
| STPAUL'S CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $5,000 |
| OVERLAND SUMMER FUND | $5,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE WESTERN RESERVE | $5,000 |
| HIRAM HOUSE | $3,700 |
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDENTS | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| NATIONWIDE HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $50) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 22 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UCUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED5× · 2020–2024 · $202k · revenue +29%
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $142k · revenue +20%
- CICLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC5× · 2020–2024 · $126k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELANDone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -28%
- SPST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MFMid-Ohio Foodbankone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 114 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS GUILD ↗
- Who funds OVERLAND SUMMERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE HIRAM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Kulas Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Andrews Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · The Catherine L & Edward a Lozick Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Joseph H & Ellen B Thomas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joseph H & Ellen B Thomas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
- Simmons University: 1% of income from government
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