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The Luciano Family Foundation at a glance

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The Luciano 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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$7k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$74kHealth$69kEducation$51kEnvironment$47kArts & Culture$42kRecreation & Sports$30kInternational$25kReligion$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$645k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS$6,540
Individual grant recipient$6,400
WEST CREEK CONSERVANCY$5,000
CORNERSTONE OF HOPE$5,000
HOUSE OF CHAMPIONS$2,730
NATIONAL WASP WWII MUSEUM$2,500
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$2,500
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATON$2,117
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,000
ADVENTURE CYCLING ASSN$2,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE F$2,000
SMILE TRAIN$2,000
SEEDS OF CARING$1,500
02The need
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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, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $700 → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $600 → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $8k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $8k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $8k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $6k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%MISSION4MAUREEN: $1k → 17%MISSION4MAUREEN: $500 → 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

MT
MN
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$426k · 71 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

71 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
37

Total granted

$426k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+57%

Still filing today

52%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CO
    CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +156%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +12%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • KA
    Korean American Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +534%
  • IH
    INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • GB
    GENESIS BY THE LAKE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +301%
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
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
2
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
3
Interact for Health

Interact for health is a foundation that works with communities to advance health justice to ensure that people in our region are healthy and thriving, regardless of who they are or where they live. more information is available on our…

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4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
6
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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8
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
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
10
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
11
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
12
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Independence Athletic Booster Club. 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

59 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. 59 of the 116 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/59
Grantees still filing
42/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $38,925 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSMILE TRAIN INC: $18,250 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $16,250 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYHOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS: $13,940 · OtherLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 · OtherWEST CREEK CONSERVANCY: $15,840 · OtherWEST CREEK CONSERVANCY+77 more: $160,937 · Other+77 moreCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $53,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE O…CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $2,800 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $21,250 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION: $2,745 · Health+5 more: $2,500 · HealthHOUSE OF CHAMPIONS: $14,100 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $11,850 · EducationThe Ohio University Foundation: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $750 · EducationNATIONAL WASP WWII MUSEUM INC: $14,500 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Square Foundation: $2,850 · Arts & CultureKorean American Center: $2,607 · Arts & CultureOhio To Erie Trail Fund: $1,250 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,800 · Arts & CultureADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsBIKE CLEVELAND: $2,750 · Recreation & SportsINDEPENDENCE ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $1,850 · Recreation & SportsCLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION: $1,600 · Recreation & SportsINTANDEM CYCLING INC: $763 · Recreation & SportsCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INC: $6,750 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER: $5,250 · Animals
Other$288,142Human Services$57,300Health$30,495Education$29,700Arts & Culture$24,007Recreation & Sports$21,963Animals$19,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $53,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $21,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $18,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $16,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CREEK CONSERVANCY: $15,840 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WASP WWII MUSEUM INC: $14,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF CHAMPIONS: $14,100 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $11,850 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $9,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC: $7,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $6,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budget91 FOUR: $6,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER: $5,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF CARING: $5,037 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSKY CROSS INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $2,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIKE CLEVELAND: $2,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION: $2,745 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKorean American Center: $2,607 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSisters of the Skies Inc: $2,063 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVillage at Marymount: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $1,850 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetL ARCHE CLEVELAND INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION4MAUREEN: $1,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOhio To Erie Trail Fund: $1,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS BY THE LAKE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKARAMU HOUSE INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTANDEM CYCLING INC: $763 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $676 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetI'M IN MINISTRY: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WEST CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WASP WWII MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF CHAMPIONS ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds 91 FOUR ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF CARING ↗
  • Who funds SKY CROSS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIKE CLEVELAND ↗

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 Foundat…The Cleveland Clinic …The Cleveland Clinic …The Kurtz Foundation …The Fedeli Family Cha…Community West Founda…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Swagelok Foundati…Gregory and Lyn Kurtz…Sisters of Charity Fo…The Louise H & David …The Reinberger Founda…
The Cleveland FoundationOH32.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Kurtz Foundation Inc · The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Gregory and Lyn Kurtz Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Reinberger Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 116 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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