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The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$5.3MEducation$5.3MHealth$2.4MEnvironment$2.0MAnimals$1.3MHuman Services$911kRecreation & Sports$586kFood & Nutrition$265kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $445k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS$250,000
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$204,550
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART$200,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$170,500
WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY$170,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS$150,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$129,550
ARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC$125,000
GLOBAL AMBASSADORS LANGUAGE ACADEMY$100,000
LAND STUDIO$100,000
MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION$100,000
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE$90,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$60,000
BEST POINT EDUCATION & BEHAVIORAL H$50,000
THE MUSIC SETTLEMENT$50,000
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 (FY17–25, $933k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE NORTH CENTRAL REGION: $50k → 5%ANTHONY'S VILLA INC: $5k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI OHIO INC: $135k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%LIFELINE INC: $10k → 14%SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND: $25k → 13%BEST POINT EDUCATION & BEHAVIORAL H: $100k → 16%SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND: $20k → 13%BEST POINT EDUCATION & BEHAVIORAL H: $50k → 16%SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND: $7k → 13%STEPPING STONES: $25k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $7k → 16%ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $20k → 17%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHI: $15k → 17%BLOSSOM HILL INC: $10k → 17%NEAR WEST SIDE MULTISERVICE CORP: $25k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $15k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $27k → 17%CENTER FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $25k → 17%THE CENTERS: $15k → 17%ADOPTION NETWORK OF CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $25k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $8k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $5k → 17%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $50k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $15k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%BOBBY TRIPODI FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $20k → 17%KOINONIA HOMES INC: $5k → 17%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS STONEBROOK MONTESSORI: $20k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $20k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $10k → 17%BLOSSOM HILL INC: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
WA
IL
WI
NY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 102 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

102 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
129

Total granted

$14M
$4.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+12%

Still filing today

85%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $763k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +31%
  • CZ
    CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +72%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
    4× · 2017–2022 · $770k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TT
    TALL TIMBERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $300k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • GA
    GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +115%
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 Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
11
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
12
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections of Northeast Ohio; the most unlike its peers is Ridgeview Conservancy. 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

186 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 186 of the 252 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
181/186
Grantees still filing
125/186
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS: $575,000 · OtherHOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENSURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $515,000 · OtherURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: $338,000 · OtherTALL TIMBERS INC: $300,000 · OtherLINDNER CENTER OF HOPE: $300,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $250,000 · Other+84 more: $4,532,034 · Other+84 moreCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,153,500 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURA…The Musical Arts Association: $700,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Associati…TAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $500,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ARTCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $330,086 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ARTGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+31 more: $1,515,600 · Arts & Culture+31 moreTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO: $770,000 · EducationTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSIT…LAUREL SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationLAUREL SCHOOLSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $365,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGECASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $265,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE U…GLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY: $265,000 · EducationGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASS…HAWKEN SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationHAWKEN SCHOOLFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $235,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUG…Yale University: $150,000 · EducationRUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationSaint Martin de Porres High School: $131,000 · Education+16 more: $741,200 · Education+16 moreCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $950,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society: $100,000 · AnimalsONE HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $51,000 · AnimalsGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $45,000 · Animals+2 more: $55,000 · AnimalsThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $385,000 · Human ServicesTHOMASVILLE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $65,008 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $65,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC: $52,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesThe Centers for Families and Children: $40,000 · Human ServicesNear Westside MultiService Corp: $40,000 · Human ServicesMONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS: $40,000 · Human ServicesNORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $37,500 · Human ServicesNEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $35,000 · Human Services+5 more: $122,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $235,000 · EnvironmentWINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $170,000 · EnvironmentTALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $85,000 · EnvironmentJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc: $85,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $55,000 · EnvironmentRidgeview Conservancy: $50,000 · EnvironmentSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $45,000 · EnvironmentMaine Island Trail Association: $40,000 · Environment+3 more: $60,000 · EnvironmentARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · HealthMEDWISH MEDWORKS: $120,000 · HealthHOPEWELL: $60,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $55,000 · HealthCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $55,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $50,000 · HealthThe Cincinnati Eye Institute Foundation: $30,000 · Health+6 more: $130,000 · Health
Other$6,810,034Arts & Culture$4,399,186Education$3,822,200Animals$1,201,000Human Services$971,508Environment$925,000Health$800,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,153,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $950,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO: $770,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $700,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $515,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLAUREL SCHOOL: $500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $500,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $385,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $365,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $330,086 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $265,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY: $265,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL: $250,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $235,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $235,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC: $200,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetLAND STUDIO INC: $190,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $185,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $165,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $159,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $131,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $125,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetMEDWISH MEDWORKS: $120,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $110,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $100,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS: $95,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $90,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $87,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $85,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLOWIK MUSIC INSTITUTE: $85,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKARAMU HOUSE INC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $85,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $67,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMASVILLE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $65,008 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $65,000 over 2y, 3.5% 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 Cleveland FoundationOH100.1× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Swagelok Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities

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 Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
  • South Kent School Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
71report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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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