· Private foundation
The Union Home Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $40,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SUMMIT COUNTY | $15,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $12,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC | $10,000 |
| LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM | $10,000 |
| TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC | $10,000 |
| FEEDING TAMPA BAY | $10,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO | $10,000 |
| HOMESTRETCH INC | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA GREATER OHIO | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $7,500 |
| HOMELESS YOUTH CONNECTION INC | $7,500 |
| EMPOWERING & STRENGTHENING OHIO'S PEOPLE | $7,500 |
| HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE | $7,500 |
| CUYAHOGA LAND BANK CHARITIES | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of The Union Home Foundation Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 46% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 29 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
- MOMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $300k · revenue +119%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND6× · 2018–2023 · $102k · revenue +119%
- TETOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TCTHE CITY MISSIONLAURA'S HOMEone grant, 2022 · $15k
- CCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -16%
- TOTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +38%
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.
Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…
To provide families facing the crisis of homelessness with a safe place designed to engage, inspire, and guide them toward a future where they feel empowered to control the course of their lives. family promise of greater cleveland…
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…
Community housing network's (chn) mission is to empower people to live in affordable homes to help build thriving communities.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
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.
Chn housing capital is a certified community development financial institution serving low-income individuals and distressed communities guided by the belief that homeownership should be within everyone's reach.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity-midohio brings people together to inspire hope, build homes, empower families, and develop communities.
The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.
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.
The mission of hope house is to provide housing solutions, support and education to meet the needs of individuals and families facing homelessness in our community.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. maumee valley habitat for humanity adheres…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Summit County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smart Development Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
129 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. 129 of the 186 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 MBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Homestretch Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Homeless Youth Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF LITERACY ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING AND STRENGTHENING OHIO'S PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF CLEVELAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SMART DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARION MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA LAND BANK CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The George Gund Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · Firstenergy Foundation · Cavaliers Youth Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic 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 Union Home Foundation Inc 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.
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Destination Downtown Dover Inc — 5% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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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