· Private foundation
Thomas & Lisa Mandel Family 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $713k
- $250k+1 grant · $408k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Community Board of Akron | $408,000 |
| United Way of Summit & Medina Mandel Community Cen | $200,000 |
| Case Western Reserve University | $175,000 |
| Jewish Community Centers Association | $100,000 |
| Temple Israel | $75,100 |
| Stewart's Caring Place | $62,500 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh | $50,000 |
| Syracuse University | $50,000 |
| Akron Marathon Charitable Corporation | $45,000 |
| Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park | $30,000 |
| Akron Community Foundation | $25,000 |
| Summit Artspace | $25,000 |
| Victim Assistance Program | $15,000 |
| University Circle Incorporated | $15,000 |
| Open Tone Music | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $488k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 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; $47k 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
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $475k · revenue +13%- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +14%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- GAGREATER AKRON AMENITIES INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%
- FOFRIENDS OF CROWELL HILAKAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +122%
- SASalvation Army Theone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
To promote business in the tri-county area
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland including the preservation of jewish cemeteries
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
The mission of the Akron History Center is to create an enduring long-lasting free museum-quality exhibit about Akrons history that inspires residents educates young people and welcomes visitors to our community.
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…
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,…
Inspired by jewish values, we create meaningful experiences and opportunities to enrich, connect, and celebrate a vibrant jewish community.
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Board of Akron and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Crowell Hilaka. 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 54 years old; the field is 22. 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 12% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 37 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds GREATER AKRON AMENITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AKRON MARATHON CHARITABLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OLD TRAIL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ARTSPACE ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CROWELL HILAKA ↗
- Who funds WITAN Corp ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP AKRON ↗
- Who funds THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Open Tone Music ↗
- Who funds The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · The Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt 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 & Lisa Mandel Family 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.
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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