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· Private foundation

Thomas H White Fdn Ta

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$706kArts & Culture$690kPhilanthropy$625kYouth Development$435kCommunity Improvement$345kHuman Services$278kCrime & Legal$212kHealth$178kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $934k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISPANIC BUSINESS CENTER$150,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND$50,000
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND$40,000
PRE4CLE$30,000
STARTING POINT$30,000
BEECH BROOK$25,000
OPEN DOORS ACADEMY$25,000
THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND$25,000
FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO$21,418
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS NE OHIO$20,000
TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INCORPORATED$20,000
SPANISH AMERICAN COMMITTEE$20,000
CITY YEAR INC$20,000
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $21k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 17%RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $11k → 17%FOSTERING HOPE: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $15k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $15k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%PASSAGES CONNECTING FATHERS AND SONS INC: $12k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $9k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 55 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
65

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+19%

Still filing today

85%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LA
    LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +21%
  • CN
    COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +57%
  • CC
    CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • *F
    **Cleveland Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • LA
    Legal Aid Society of Cleveland
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • CN
    College Now Greater Cleveland
    one grant, 2021 · $40k

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

04Your field

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.

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 Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
3
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology

Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…

Arts & Culture
4
Hope for Cleveland's Children
—
5
Cleveland Freedom Project

Youth-led Cultivators

Youth Development
6
Community Learning Center Institute

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.

Education
7
The Cleveland Music School Settlement

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

Arts & Culture
8
Open Doors Inc

Open doors academy (oda) provides year-round out-of-school time academic and enrichment programs to youth living in underserved communities. oda is based in cleveland, ohio and operates programs in northeast and northwest ohio. oda…

Youth Development
9
Literary Cleveland

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.

Education
10
Cleveland Pops Orchestra

The cleveland pops orchestra, led by conductor carl topilow, performs the highest quality symphonic pops music to entertain and enrich a wide and diverse audience and provides educational programs to develop an enduring appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
12
Dobama Theatre Inc

Dobama theatre, inc. is dedicated to premiering important new plays by established & emerging playwrights in professional productions of the highest quality. through theatrical production, community engagement, and education programming,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily & Youth Support Serv…Community Development & Foo…Cleveland Community Philant…Neighborhood Development Co…Cleveland Community Develop…Residential Care & Housing …Member-Owned Credit UnionsYouth Leadership and Opport…Residential Support ServicesArts & Culture OrganizationsSenior Care and Hospice Ser…Jewish Federation Cleveland…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr16%13%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr19%27%35–55yr19%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr16%9%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr19%22%35–55yr19%50%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
13%
1,299/9,747

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.

04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 134 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
39/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

**Cleveland Foundation — $200,000 · Other**Cleveland FoundationHISPANIC BUSINESS CENTER — $150,000 · OtherHISPANIC BUSINESS CENTERLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND — $150,000 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELANDPRE4CLE — $110,000 · Other+83 more — $1,699,637 · Other+83 morePlayhouse Square Foundation — $45,900 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Squ…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUS…NEAR WEST THEATRE INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNEAR WEST THE…The Musical Arts Association — $40,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical A…ART HOUSE INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureART HOUSE INCARTS IMPACT — $32,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IMPACTGREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT LAKES T…THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'…DEVELOPING CONNECTIONS NORTHEAST OHIO — $30,000 · Arts & CultureDEVELOPING CO…THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE — $29,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND…LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSKIDMARK CLE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC — $17,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $425,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELA…COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $110,000 · EducationCOLLEGE NO…CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY — $60,000 · EducationCHILD CARE…SCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC — $60,000 · EducationSCRANTON R…Saint Martin de Porres High School — $45,000 · EducationSaint Mart…THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $25,000 · EducationTHE LITERA…CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING — $19,000 · EducationCLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Education+5 more — $48,100 · Education+5 morePOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM — $50,000 · HealthBeech Brook — $45,000 · HealthCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $35,000 · HealthLIFEACT — $25,000 · HealthJENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS — $20,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthSEEDS OF LITERACY — $45,000 · Human ServicesNear Westside MultiService Corp — $40,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $21,418 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC — $16,500 · Human ServicesPassages Connecting Fathers & Sons — $12,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CLEVELAND — $10,500 · Human ServicesFOSTERING HOPE — $10,000 · Human ServicesSpanish American Committee — $60,000 · Community ImprovementSMART DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,309,637Arts & Culture$484,400Philanthropy$425,000Education$382,100Health$197,500Human Services$155,418Community Improvement$120,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $425,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND — $75,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC — $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSpanish American Committee — $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSMART DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation — $45,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBeech Brook — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY — $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp — $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES — $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetESPERANZA INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEAR WEST THEATRE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER — $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $36,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetART HOUSE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARTS IMPACT — $32,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFOOTPATH FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetDEVELOPING CONNECTIONS NORTHEAST OHIO — $30,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE — $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLIFEACT — $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetREACH OUT & READ GREATER CLEVELAND — $22,500 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $21,418 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSKIDMARK CLE — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Abington Foundati…The Cleveland Foundat…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Reinberger Founda…The George Gund Found…Higley Fund of the Cl…Third Federal Foundat…Treu Mart FundMartha Holden Jenning…United Way of Greater…The Lozick Family Fou…The Nord Family Found…
The Abington FoundationOH106× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Abington Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Nord Family 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 Thomas H White Fdn Ta 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Bethune-Cookman University — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
37report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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