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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND$25,000
BEECH BROOK$25,000
OPEN DOORS ACADEMY$25,000
THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION$25,000
FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO$21,418
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS NE OHIO$20,000
SMART DEVELOPMENT INC$20,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND$20,000
FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND$20,000
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 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
64

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+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
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

  • 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
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 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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 133 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
38/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherOpen Doors Academy: $95,000 · Other+81 more: $1,604,637 · Other+81 morePlayhouse Square Foundation: $45,900 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Squ…NEAR WEST THEATRE INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNEAR WEST THE…The Musical Arts Association: $40,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical A…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUS…ART HOUSE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureART HOUSE INCARTS IMPACT: $32,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IMPACTTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'…DEVELOPING CONNECTIONS NORTHEAST OHIO: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDEVELOPING CO…GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT LAKES T…THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $29,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND…LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSKIDMARK CLE: $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 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 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 budgetSMART DEVELOPMENT INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $45,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBeech Brook: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% 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 budgetNEAR WEST THEATRE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $36,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetART HOUSE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARTS IMPACT: $32,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFOOTPATH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPING CONNECTIONS NORTHEAST OHIO: $30,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetGREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEACT: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 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

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 Thomas H White Fdn Ta funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas H White Fdn Ta. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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.

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 133 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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