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The Veale 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 $10k12 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $607k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $231k
- $250k+3 grants · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $5,000,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $573,000 |
| AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL | $400,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT GREATER CLEVELAND | $120,500 |
| JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $60,600 |
| elder high school | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE | $35,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $27,500 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $26,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| solon italian club foundation | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| HOLDEN ARBORETUM | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
65 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +50%- AFAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +11%
- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- SUSTETSON UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +17%
- CBCLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +53%
- MOMETROPOLITAN OPERAone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Edenculture. 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 61 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 103 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 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds GATES MILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Cogswell Hall Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUECOATS INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN FALLS EDUCATIONAL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds SHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPCYCLE PARTS SHOP ↗
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 Lozick Family Foundation · The Laub Foundation · The Howley Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Reinberger Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · Community West Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The George Gund 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 Veale 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.
- Stetson University 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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