· Private foundation
The McGrath-Spellman 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $262k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SETON HILL UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $40,000 |
| COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS | $25,000 |
| CLUB 24 | $25,000 |
| ERNIES LAW FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST ISABEL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $24,000 |
| JOSEPH'S HOME | $22,000 |
| ST DOMINIC'S CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FISH SANIBEL CAPTAVIA INC | $20,000 |
| OPEN DOORS ACADEMY | $16,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED | $6,000 |
| GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL | $5,800 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- CMCarnegie Mellon University5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +35%
- SHSETON HALL UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $116k · revenue +44%
- C2CLUB 24 INC2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +30% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- MHMARY'S HOMEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +10%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $16k
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 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…
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…
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…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
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…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Club 24 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 49 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 Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CLUB 24 INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Womankind Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Undies for Everyone ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY 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: The Cleveland Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · Corinne L Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences · The Lozick Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 McGrath-Spellman 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.
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
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.