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The Reuter Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$634k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$580kHuman Services$532kPublic Safety & Disaster$530kHealth$317kInternational$247kEmployment$127kReligion$97kFood & Nutrition$88kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $424k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
$17,275
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND$155,000
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS$50,000
RECOVERY RESOURCES$49,949
PROVIDENCE HOUSE$25,000
HUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING$25,000
ZELLE'S HOME$25,000
SALVATION ARMY OF GC$25,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL-RAINBOW$20,000
CITY MISSION$20,000
AMERICA MAKING MIGRANTS SAFE$20,000
MAY DUGAN CENTER$20,000
CARE USA$20,000
BEECH BROOK FAMILY CENTER$20,000
ST HERMAN HOUSE$20,000
ORPHAN OUTREACH$17,275
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $332k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HANNAH'S HOME: $5k → 9%HELP FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%THE COSTA HOUSE: $25k → 17%THE EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $25k → 17%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $21k → 17%EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $20k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $10k → 17%US TOGETHER: $20k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $20k → 17%WESTSIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $20k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $20k → 17%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK: $21k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK: $1k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK: $1k → 17%LOVE INC: $10k → 17%FOSTERING HOPE: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 29 repeat orgs$972k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
52

Total granted

$1.9M
$745k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+10%

Still filing today

76%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationEmploymentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CN
    COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $418k · revenue +131%
  • ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $240k · revenue +78%
  • Orphan Outreach
    3× · 2022–2024 · $87k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • BU
    BRAC USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -50%
  • JC
    JOURNERY CENTER FOR SAFETY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • LC
    LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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3
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

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…

Philanthropy
4
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
5
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
6
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center

The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.

Health
7
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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8
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
9
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
10
Ohio Living Quaker Heights

To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.

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11
Columbus House Inc

Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…

Housing & Shelter
12
Cleveland Mediation Center

Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Hannahs Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr20%18%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr14%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr14%41%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
11%
3,450/30,313

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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 92 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
46/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — $150,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY — $90,000 · OtherJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETYCITY MISSION — $80,047 · OtherCITY MISSIONPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC — $65,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL-RAINBOW — $60,000 · OtherJOURNERY CENTER FOR SAFETY — $50,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $54,392 · OtherBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY — $49,000 · Other+46 more — $626,496 · Other+46 moreCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $417,500 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER C…SCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC — $85,067 · EducationSCRANTON ROAD MINISTR…BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES — $40,000 · EducationBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL CO…+1 more — $2,000 · EducationNear Westside MultiService Corp — $60,000 · Human ServicesNear Westside…EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesEDNA HOUSE FO…SEEDS OF LITERACY — $40,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF LITE…WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE CAT…CLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK — $25,000 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND FUR…COSTA HOUSE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCOSTA HOUSE I…RESOURCE CLEVELAND — $21,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CLEV…EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesEAST CLEVELAN…US TOGETHER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesUS TOGETHER I…HELP FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Human Services+5 more — $31,224 · Human Services+5 moreALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $240,000 · Public Safety & DisasterALL HANDS…Orphan Outreach — $87,275 · InternationalBRAC USA INC — $60,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $25,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $20,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $10,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalRECOVERY RESOURCES — $49,949 · HealthThe Lantern — $44,691 · HealthSTELLA MARIS INC — $30,261 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthMEDWISH MEDWORKS — $25,000 · HealthLIFEACT — $11,000 · HealthJENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS — $10,000 · HealthNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND — $10,000 · HealthLINKING EMPLOYMENT ABILITIES AND POTENTIAL — $45,000 · EmploymentVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES — $27,500 · EmploymentTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $24,014 · Employment
Other$1,224,935Education$544,567Human Services$332,224Public Safety & Disaster$240,000International$223,275Health$205,901Employment$96,514

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $417,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $240,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOrphan Outreach — $87,275 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC — $85,067 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRAC USA INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $54,392 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY RESOURCES — $49,949 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY — $49,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLINKING EMPLOYMENT ABILITIES AND POTENTIAL — $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC — $45,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetThe Lantern — $44,691 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY — $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTELLA MARIS INC — $30,261 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES — $27,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCLEVELAND FURNITURE BANK — $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetZELIE'S HOME — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMEDWISH MEDWORKS — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOSTA HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $24,014 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $21,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND — $21,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS TOGETHER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetESPERANZA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHELP FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEACT — $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOCUS NORTH AMERICA — $10,224 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSpanish American Committee — $9,789 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE — $5,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $5,207 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…Higley Fund of the Cl…Community West Founda…Murphy Family Foundat…The Sk Wellman Founda…United Way of Greater…The Swagelok Foundati…The George Gund Found…The Abington Foundati…The Sam J Frankino Fo…Dominion Energy Chari…
The Cleveland FoundationOH75.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Swagelok Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 Reuter 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Reuter Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Reuter 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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