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The Nord 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k108 grants · $260k
- $10k–50k107 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k99 grants · $7.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO | $175,000 |
| COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC | $160,000 |
| EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC | $150,000 |
| THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND | $150,000 |
| LORAIN METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY | $130,000 |
| COMMON GROUND-THE CINDY NORD CENTER FOR RENEWAL | $105,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY | $104,500 |
| THE ELYRIA SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC | $100,000 |
| LORAIN METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY | $100,000 |
| HOMELESS NO MORE INC | $100,000 |
| CHN HOUSING PARTNERS | $100,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Nord Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
344 repeat relationships — 226 still active in FY2024, 118 since wound down; 29 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +94%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +22%
- ECEL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC6× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +78%
Funded once
- COCITY OF ELYRIA OHIOone grant, 2021 · $165k
- KLKEYSTONE LOCAL SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $100k
- LCLORAIN COUNTY ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INCone grant, 2018 · $90k · revenue +20%
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.
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…
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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…
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
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…
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Saint Francis Animal Sanctuary 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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
446 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. 446 of the 574 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY HEALTH & DENTISTRY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds EMERALD DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMIC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds New Legacy Charter School ↗
- Who funds MEDWISH MEDWORKS ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds OBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES OF LORAIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND THE CINDY NORD CENTER FOR RENEWAL ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY SAFE HARBOR CORP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAD FACTORY ↗
- Who funds Midlands Housing Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH 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: Community Foundation of Lorain County · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland
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 Nord 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.
- Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
- Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% 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.
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