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The William Bingham Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.2MEnvironment$1.6MEducation$1.2MHealth$880kHuman Services$425kInternational$208kYouth Development$185kRecreation & Sports$160kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $750k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stella Maris Inc$250,000
Chandler School$150,000
Hawken School$150,000
West End House Camp$100,000
Friends of Recovery NE Ohio$100,000
Southern Environmental Law Center$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wings for Kids: $50k → 12%Looking Upwards Inc: $30k → 7%Chagrin River Watershed Partners: $40k → 9%Earth Sangha: $50k → 6%Chagrin River Watershed Partners: $35k → 9%Earth Sangha: $50k → 6%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington: $55k → 14%Edna House for Women The: $70k → 17%Edna House for Women: $35k → 17%Seeds of Literacy: $30k → 17%Mary Mavec Opportunity School of Euclid: $7k → 17%Mary Mavec Opportunity School of Euclid Inc: $5k → 17%May Dugan Center: $100k → 17%University Settlement: $125k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
HI
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The William Bingham Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 60%.

The William Bingham Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 24 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
55

Total granted

$5.1M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+22%

Still filing today

96%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    5× · 2017–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +45%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $575k · revenue +53%
  • SM
    STELLA MARIS INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • NF
    Northern Forest Center Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +20%
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue -53%
  • HK
    HALAU KE'ALAOKAMAILEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +535% · 41% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cleveland Museum of Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
2
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
3
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
4
The Central European University

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…

International
5
Lehigh University

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…

Education
6
Western New England University

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…

Education
7
West Creek Conservancy

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…

Environment
8
John Carroll University

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…

Education
9
The Cleveland Music School Settlement

To welcome all to our music and arts community to learn, create, celebrate and heal.

Arts & Culture
10
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
11
Lewis & Clark College

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…

Education
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
51/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Musical Arts Association: $1,900,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts AssociationCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $156,975 · Arts & CultureLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY: $140,000 · Arts & CultureCITYMUSIC CLEVELAND INC: $130,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $275,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreTHE CHANDLER SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherTHE CHANDLER SCHOOLTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $150,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $120,000 · OtherFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC …West End House Camp: $100,000 · OtherHALAU KE'ALAOKAMAILE: $100,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $100,000 · OtherTHE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MARYLAND INC: $75,000 · OtherCentersCircle Health: $75,000 · OtherFriends of Recovery NE Ohio: $130,000 · OtherFriends of Recovery NE OhioTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $105,000 · Other+34 more: $915,500 · Other+34 moreNorthern Forest Center Inc: $250,000 · EducationNorthern Forest…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RE…DENISON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERS…HAWKEN SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationHAWKEN SCHOOLITHACA COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationITHACA COLLEGEWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $100,000 · EducationWASHINGTON SCHO…HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationHATHAWAY BROWN …THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $60,000 · EducationEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $72,000 · Education+2 moreCHAGRIN RIVER WATERSHED PARTNERS INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesCHAGRIN RI…UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY…EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesEDNA HOUSE…Earth Sangha: $100,000 · Human ServicesEarth Sang…Near Westside MultiService Corp: $100,000 · Human ServicesNear Wests…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $54,819 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC C…WINGS FOR KIDS: $50,000 · Human ServicesWINGS FOR …SEEDS OF LITERACY: $30,000 · Human ServicesLOOKING UPWARDS INC: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $12,600 · Human ServicesCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $575,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAK…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL R…WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $50,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN R…Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc: $35,000 · EnvironmentSTELLA MARIS INC: $300,000 · HealthBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $75,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthHOPEWELL: $40,000 · HealthCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $25,000 · HealthAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · InternationalWORLD LEARNING INC: $82,925 · International
Arts & Culture$2,851,975Other$2,070,500Education$1,157,000Human Services$742,419Environment$710,000Health$490,000International$207,925

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $1,900,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $575,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSTELLA MARIS INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHANDLER SCHOOL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $156,975 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY: $140,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCHAGRIN RIVER WATERSHED PARTNERS INC: $135,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCITYMUSIC CLEVELAND INC: $130,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFriends of Recovery NE Ohio: $130,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $120,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetEDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $105,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $105,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHALAU KE'ALAOKAMAILE: $100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetEarth Sangha: $100,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD LEARNING INC: $82,925 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MARYLAND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $54,819 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMING OUT LOUD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHOPEWELL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCLEVELAND BALLET: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $37,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $35,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY: $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAPOLLO'S FIRE BAROQUE: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Cleveland Foundat…The Char and Chuck Fo…The George Gund Found…Murphy Family Foundat…Higley Fund of the Cl…The Abington Foundati…The Lozick Family Fou…Jewish Federation of …Emma R Fox Char Trust…The Andrews FoundationThe Sk Wellman Founda…The Reinberger Founda…
The Cleveland FoundationOH44.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The William Bingham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William Bingham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The William Bingham Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The William Bingham Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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