· Private foundation
The Sylvia and Heath Oliver Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| North Coast Community Homes | $100,000 |
| University Hospitals | $50,000 |
| Edwin's Foundation | $50,000 |
| Mooresville Arts Center | $50,000 |
| Cleveland Animal Protective League | $50,000 |
| Thea Bowman Center | $50,000 |
| The Lyceum | $25,000 |
| Mayfield High School Alumni Association | $25,000 |
| The Gathering Place | $15,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities-Northeast Ohio | $15,000 |
| TGH Foundation | $12,500 |
| Herps Alive Foundation | $10,000 |
| Cleveland Sight Center | $10,000 |
| Waldo's Rescue Pen | $10,000 |
| Billy Hurley III Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $680k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 99% 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
- NCNORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $285k · revenue +10%
- TCTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE5× · 2020–2025 · $253k · revenue +21%
- EFEDWINS FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIOone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -29%
- MAMooresvile Arts Guildone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $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.
Animal shelter that focuses on adoption, spay and neuter, and other humane education with the goal of making euthanasia of healthy animals unnecessary.
The society is dedicated to promoting care for all animals. we strive to never turn away sick or injured. our goal is to bring about a world where humane societies are no longer necessary.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of dayton's mission is to provide community, comfort, and hope to families of seriously ill children.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.
The Cleveland Christian Home, Inc. exists to be a haven of hope for children, youth, and families struggling with mental illness, abuse, and neglect in Northeast Ohio.
The organization maintains and operates a facility in morgantown, wv for the purpose of providing temporary lodging and other assistance to seriously and chronically ill children and their families. the organization also reaches out to the…
We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…
The organization provides a "home away from home" to families with seriously ill children, and supports initiatives to improve pediatric health.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of maryland, inc. provides a home away from home for seriously ill children and their families.
To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.
We, in partnership with our community, provide a comfortable and caring home away from home that supports keeping families together and reduces stress during a child's serious illness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waldos Rescue Pen Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THEA BOWMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDWINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LYCEUM ↗
- Who funds Mayfield High School Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VERITYS VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds Waldos Rescue Pen Inc ↗
- Who funds HERPS ALIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Cowboys Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
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.
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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 Sylvia and Heath Oliver 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.
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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