· Private foundation
The William Bingham 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $750k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Stella Maris Inc | $250,000 |
| Chandler School | $150,000 |
| Hawken School | $150,000 |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $100,000 |
| West End House Camp | $100,000 |
| Friends of Recovery NE Ohio | $100,000 |
| Washington School for Girls | $100,000 |
| Case Western Reserve University | $50,000 |
| CityMusic Cleveland | $45,000 |
| Apollo's Fire Baroque | $30,000 |
| Heights Arts | $25,000 |
| Musical Upcoming Stars in the Classics | $10,000 |
| The Haven Home | $5,000 |
| Museums of the Bethel Historical Society | $2,500 |
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, $682k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% 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 11% of The William Bingham 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. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 60% — 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 +38% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k 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
- TMThe Musical Arts Association5× · 2017–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +45%
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2022 · $575k · revenue +53%- SMSTELLA MARIS INC2× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- NFNorthern Forest Center Incone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +20%
- USUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INCone grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue -53%
- HKHALAU KE'ALAOKAMAILEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +535% · 41% of their budget
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 mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
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…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
To welcome all to our music and arts community to learn, create, celebrate and heal.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Earth Sangha. 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 47 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 90 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 The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STELLA MARIS INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Forest Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE CHANDLER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN RIVER WATERSHED PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMUSIC CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Recovery NE Ohio ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds HALAU KE'ALAOKAMAILE ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Earth Sangha ↗
- Who funds WORLD LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Old Westbury Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Andrews Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Reinberger 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 William Bingham 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.
- World Learning Inc — 39% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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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