· Private foundation
The Leonetticarlson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMENS COUNCIL CMA | $10,000 |
| LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION | $6,902 |
| BEDLAM THEATRE | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PIANO CLEVELAND | $2,500 |
| CINEMTIQUECIA | $2,000 |
| HOME REPAIR RESOURCE CENTER | $1,500 |
| PLYMOUTH CHURCH | $1,300 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT | $1,000 |
| NATURE CENTER OF SHAKER LAKES | $1,000 |
| REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| OHIO END OF LIFE OPTIONS | $1,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +58% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- LCLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +31%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +71%
- CPCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +257%
Funded once
- LCLINCOLN CENTER THEATER NYCone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- ELEDWINS LEADERSHIP RESTAURANT INSTone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Citymusic cleveland is a professional chamber orchestra, which performs free concerts throughout n.e. ohio, accompanied by art shows of local artists. our mission is to develop audiences & build communities through the arts by presenting…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
To be a national model for how a presenting organization serves its community, leveraging the worlds best modern and contemporary dance to inspire and educate audiences, local dancers, and community members.
Non-profit organization dedicated to presenting frees concert of Classical Music
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.
Music Performance - Performing free concerts of new symphonic music
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The cleveland pops orchestra, led by conductor carl topilow, performs the highest quality symphonic pops music to entertain and enrich a wide and diverse audience and provides educational programs to develop an enduring appreciation of…
Opera columbus enriches central ohio by educating, enlightening, and entertaining people of all ages and backgrounds through the live music theatre experience by employing a diverse and far-flung supply of creative talent, ideas and…
Balletmet will celebrate dance by engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, education programs, and creation of new work.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Public Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Exuma Foundation. 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 44 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 — 0.0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 86 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 LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DOBAMA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds OHIO END OF LIFE OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH ↗
- Who funds Elevator Repair Service Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF LITERACY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE EXUMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FutureHeights Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Kulas Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · John P Murphy Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · Thomas H White Fdn Ta
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 Leonetticarlson 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.