· Private foundation
The Leonetticarlson Family Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH | $1,000 |
| DOBAMA THEATRE | $1,000 |
| REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| OHIO END OF LIFE OPTIONS | $1,000 |
| NATURE CENTER OF SHAKER LAKES | $1,000 |
| ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE THEATRE | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +58% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 86 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 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 THE EXUMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FutureHeights Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Leonetticarlson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leonetticarlson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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