· Private foundation
The Turtle Plastics 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund | $50,000 |
| National Fallen Firefighters Foundation | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| National Clean Water Collective Inc | $7,500 |
| Military Firefighter Heritage Foundation | $7,500 |
| Cleveland Blind Bowling League | $7,005 |
| Cleveland Buckeye Blind Bowling League | $5,500 |
| Literary Cleveland | $5,000 |
| Nalinikids Inc | $5,000 |
| IL Fire Service Institute Univ of Illinois | $5,000 |
| HCCEF | $5,000 |
| League of Womens Voters | $5,000 |
| Thrive for Change | $5,000 |
| Mama Moses the Underground Railroad | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +86% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 13 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- CLCOMMUNITY LIFE CENTERS OF HAITI3× · 2020–2022 · $173k · revenue +151%
- GMGLEAN MINISTRIES2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +194%
- NFNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $24k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TDTHE DALTON FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +86%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $12k
- MFMinnesota Farm Bureauone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
San francisco firefighters cancer prevention foundation (sffcpf) is committed to the prevention and early detection of cancer and providing access to cutting edge care for active and retired members of the san francisco fire department and…
The mission of firefighters for healing is to support burn and trauma survivors through direct emotional and financial support at the time they most need it. firefighters for healing provides innovative and holistic solutions to support…
Provide volunteer first responder service
To lead california communities in wildfire risk reduction and resiliency.
The preservation of materials related to Cincinnati firefighting history and promoting fire safety education.
We are committed to identifying the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of amniotic fluid embolism and bring our information and resources to healthcare providers and impacted families through our education and support programs.We…
Fusee engages in public education and policy advocacy promoting safe, ethical, ecological wildland fire management.
The mission of the professional fire fighters of wisconsin charitable foundation is to champion community risk reduction initiatives; promote fire safety and prevention; and deliver meaningful support to burn survivors, fire fighters and…
Assist Firefighters - Labor Union
To educate the public on rail safety around highway-rail grade crossings and pedestrian safety around tracks and trains.
The minnesota firefighter initiative (mnfire) is dedicated to providing minnesota's firefighters with the tools they need to prioritize and protect their health by focusing on the three health problems most commonly experienced by those in…
To resource, train, and mobilize volunteers, churches,& other organizations to respond to disasters in the united states & world-wide
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Society for the Blind and the most unlike its peers is The Dalton Family Foundation. 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 10 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 52% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 54 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 COMMUNITY LIFE CENTERS OF HAITI ↗
- Who funds Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund ↗
- Who funds GLEAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DALTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NALINIKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Literary Cleveland ↗
- Who funds THRIVE FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Crashcourse Village Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH ↗
- Who funds MAMA MOSES THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL FIRE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PIPERS ANGELS 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: The Cleveland Foundation · 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 Turtle Plastics 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.
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% 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.
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