· Private foundation
The Shannahley 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Pnc.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRIALS FOR HOPE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CITY DOGS CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
| TRIALS FOR HOPE | $10,000 |
| LEHMAN COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| EDEN ALTERNATIVE | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 97% of your 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.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TMTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +103%
- FOFRIENDS OF CITY DOGS CLEVELAND2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +12%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC2× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- AOACLU OF OHIOone grant, 2022 · $10k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2022 · $10k
- PPRETERMone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Collaborate Cleveland invests in local changemakers serving women and advancing gender justice in Cleveland while advocating for the long-term change of policies and practices that have historically disadvantaged women.
To transform cuyahoga county into a model of health and wellness by connecting individuals to access to care
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
To serve the local community of Cleveland, OH by distributing food, Bibles, backpacks, school supplies, hygiene products, and other essential consumer goods to alleviate poverty and homelessness.
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trials for Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 28 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 METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRIALS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY DOGS CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Cogswell Hall Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds Housing Plus Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EDEN ALTERNATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NORTH ADAMS AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds PLATTSBURGH COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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: 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 Shannahley 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.
- North Adams Ambulance Service Inc — 12% 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.