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Third Federal Foundation
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 $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $965k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $730k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT | $430,000 |
| CLEVELAND CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| TWO FOUNDATION | $151,200 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD RENAISSANCE INC | $150,000 |
| THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $140,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND | $125,000 |
| GILMOUR ACADEMY | $110,000 |
| STELLA MARIS | $100,000 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| CITY YEAR CLEVELAND | $85,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED | $85,000 |
| JENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS | $85,000 |
| SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT | $75,000 |
| FAMILY CONNECTIONS | $75,000 |
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, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
167 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2024, 84 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
- USUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +17%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $2.8M · revenue +50%
CITY YEAR INC8× · 2017–2024 · $891k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- VCVILLAGE CAPITAL CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +39%
- WJWALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -25%
- EHETERNAL HOUSING FUNDone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
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.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.
To strengthen underserved neighborhoods and improve lives through innovative financing.
Credit union provides lending, savings and other financial services to its qualifying members at terms generally better than available in the marketplace and with a service-based emphasis that recognizes the members status as owners
Greater cleveland neighborhood centers association forges key partnerships with community based organizations to support educational programs and connect with residents and promote more
At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.
Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
166 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. 166 of the 259 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds SLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Heidelberg University ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds STELLA MARIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RENAISSANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds RHONDA'S KISS ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC UNITY OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING & EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING AND STRENGTHENING OHIO'S PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE CAPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS ↗
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 George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Murphy Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland
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 Third Federal 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.
- Urban League of Broward County Inc — 44% of income from government
- Housing Foundation of America Inc — 42% of income from government
- Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa Inc — 37% of income from government
- Florida Community Loan Fund Inc — 31% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- 2ND Act Org Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hispanic Unity of Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Solitas House Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Abe Brown Ministries 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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