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The Paula and Bill Cosgrove Family Foundation at a glance

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The Paula and Bill Cosgrove 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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$1.4MArts & Culture$46kCrime & Legal$21kPhilanthropy$20kEducation$18kPublic Benefit$10kRecreation & Sports$6kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION$10,000
UH RAINBOW BABIES AND CHILDREN$5,500
STRONGSVILLE BOOSTER CLUB$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YORK YOUNG REVOLUTION: $5k → 9%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%INTERNATIONAL THYMIC MALIGNANCY INC GROUP: $400 → 9%ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%ALZHEIMERS ASSOC MICHIGAN CHAPTER: $10k → 8%KENSTON COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $500 → 6%MEDINA COUNTY OHIO SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $12k → 7%LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%COLUMBIA YOUTH FOOTBALL: $500 → 13%CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE: $10k → 17%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%MEDINA COUNTY OHIO SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $9k → 7%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%LIGHT OF HEARTS VILLA: $3k → 17%ST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 17%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND: $8k → 17%DRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP: $5k → 17%ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM: $18k → 17%THE UNION HOME FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM: $13k → 17%STRONGSVILLE BOOSTER CLUB: $500 → 17%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE MS SOCIETY: $3k → 17%THE MS SOCIETY: $2k → 17%THE MS SOCIETY: $2k → 17%HOMESTEAD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $400 → 17%MAKE THEM KNOW YOUR NAME FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%MAKE THEM KNOW YOUR NAME FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%MAKE THEM KNOW YOUR NAME FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%UH RAINBOW BABIES AND CHILDREN: $10k → 17%UH RAINBOW BABIES AND CHILDREN: $6k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of The Paula and Bill Cosgrove Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 83%.

The Paula and Bill Cosgrove Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 7 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$1.4M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+31%

Still filing today

57%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SC
    Southwest Community Health Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +6% · 25% of their budget
  • MT
    MAKE THEM KNOW YOUR NAME FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +1%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • TU
    THE UNION HOME FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -54%
  • TL
    THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -56%
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
Leonard Parker Pool Institute for Health

The leonard parker pool institute for health encourages and facilitates cross-sector collaboration to enable meaningful, place-based improvements in the health of our community. our mission is to provide meaningful and sustained…

Health
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio
Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
6
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
7
The Heart Foundation

The heart foundation (thf) was created to save lives from heart disease by increasing awareness, educating the public, and supporting innovative research at smidt heart institute at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california.…

Philanthropy
8
Colorado Longitudinal Study

Advancing the health of people through advancing the science of medicine. the colorado longitudinal study (cols) is building the world's most comprehensive longitudinal collection of biological specimens matched with clinical health and…

Education
9
Atrium Medical Center Foundation

To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.

Health
10
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Union Home Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southwest Community Health Foundation: $1,250,000 · HealthSouthwest Community Health FoundationMAKE THEM KNOW YOUR NAME FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Health+3 more: $47,500 · HealthPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNION HOME FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMEDINA COUNTY OHIO SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $20,817 · OtherUH RAINBOW BABIES AND CHILDREN: $15,500 · OtherST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE MS SOCIETY: $6,000 · Other+5 more: $3,300 · OtherTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $30,500 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Square Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public BenefitCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $7,500 · EducationSTRONGSVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $500 · EducationDRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC: $5,000 · InternationalYORK YOUNG REVOLUTION: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$1,357,500Philanthropy$80,000Other$65,617Arts & Culture$45,500Public Benefit$10,000Education$8,000International$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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 budgetSouthwest Community Health Foundation: $1,250,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetMAKE THEM KNOW YOUR NAME FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $30,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION HOME FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK YOUNG REVOLUTION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetLIGHT OF HEARTS VILLA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRONGSVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cleveland FoundationOH17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Paula and Bill Cosgrove Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paula and Bill Cosgrove Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Paula and Bill Cosgrove Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Paula and Bill Cosgrove Family Foundation 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.

    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 26 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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