· Private foundation
The Mary a & Gerald F Franklin Sr 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PADUA HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| STRONGSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMM FNDN | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON - CHAMPION SCHOLARS | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| NEIGHBORHUB HEALTH | $800 |
| VETERAN HOUSING SOLUTIONS | $500 |
| CLEVELAND STORM SKATING CLUB | $500 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
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 (FY19–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% 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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND6× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +25%
- UOUniversity of Dayton5× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +38%
- CCCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND4× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- SBSt Bridget Churchone grant, 2017 · $1k
- MAMILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCESone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -4%
- FLFamily Living Centerone grant, 2017 · $800
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.
Providing veteran's children with scholarships.
Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
The foundation operates as a qualified active low income community business. it owns and leases the building and various exhibits to the children's museum of cleveland, a related organization.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
The organization's mission is to improve the health status of the community it serves.
Provide material and educational assistance for children in need to challenge poverty, one child at a time.
The angel scholarship fund (asf) serves as the scholarship granting organization of the catholic community foundation. its mission is to promote the state of ohio scholarship tax credit program with all who support catholic education in…
Greater cleveland community shares (community shares) is a non-profit corporation providing financial and other support for its member non-profit organizations and others located in northeast ohio. member organziations are actively engaged…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christ Child Society of Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Housing Solutions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 36 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 THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Strongsville Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Shared Blessings ↗
- Who funds VETERANS HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CONQUER CHILDHOOD CANCER NOW INC ↗
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: Medwish Medworks · The Cleveland Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mary a & Gerald F Franklin Sr 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.