· Private foundation
The SS Mack 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHAPEL | $6,000 |
| BAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $4,000 |
| CONNECTING FOR KIDS OF WESTLAKE OHIO | $3,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $3,500 |
| OH-GO | $3,000 |
| FEEDING SOULS MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,500 |
| LAKE ERIE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHRIS AND OWEN KEDAS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,000 |
| NATHANIELS HOPE INC | $1,500 |
| NUHOP CENTER FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING | $1,500 |
| ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH INC | $1,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 5% of The SS Mack 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.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE8× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +39%
- CFCONNECTING FOR KIDS OF WESTLAKE OH6× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +143%
- UOUniversity of Dayton4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- BRBAY ROCKETS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +31%
- SNSABRINA NOELLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $3k
- TWTHIRD WAVE VOLUNTEERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +61%
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.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
The mission of adventure crew is to connect city teens to nature and each other through engaging outdoor adventures. through adventure crew, city teens develop the courageous spirit to step out of their comfort zone and discover new worlds…
Youth for christ reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and…
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
Ohio invention league has a mission to inspire curiosity, confidence and creative problem solving in our youth and advance invention and entrepreneurial education. we envision a day when every child, regardless of gender, race, religion,…
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…
Our mission is to empower children and adults with disabilities and (continued on schedule o) their families to achieve their greatest potential through holistic and family-focused services.
Vision: we work for the day when everyone involved in senior living finds fulfillment through: (a) life with meaning and purpose; (b) enriching opportunities and experiences; (c) communities fostering relationship and perpetuating legacy.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
32 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. 32 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR KIDS OF WESTLAKE OH ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FILL THIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDRY SAILING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY VILLAGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BAY ROCKETS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS ↗
- Who funds THE BAY VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OH-GO ↗
- Who funds TEEN LEADERSHIP CORPS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MADISON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds Nathaniel's Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAVE VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds NUHOP CENTER FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds WALLEYES FOR WOUNDED HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY AREA MARITIME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
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 · Community West Foundation · The Arthur B McBride Sr Family Foundation · William Corley Foundation Westlake Bay Village Rotary · The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation · Erie County Community Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Reinberger Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 SS Mack 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.