· Public charity
Treu Mart Fund
The fund is intended to be used for general charitable purposes which are in furtherance of the purposes of the cleveland foundation and the jewish federation of cleveland.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k37 grants · $678k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES INC | $35,000 |
| BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES | $35,000 |
| ESPERANZA INC | $30,000 |
| FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $30,000 |
| ARTS IMPACT INCORPORATED | $28,000 |
| SEEDS OF LITERACY | $25,000 |
| NEAR WEST THEATRE INC | $25,000 |
| NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $25,000 |
| ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO | $25,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $25,000 |
| THE CENTERS | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $443k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Treu Mart Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 99% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 14 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO4× · 2018–2021 · $266k · revenue +30%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO6× · 2018–2023 · $153k · revenue +134%
- EIESPERANZA INC5× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- CCCHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +22%
- TCTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELANDone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +25%
- GBGOODS BANK NEOone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +11%
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.
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,…
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.
The literacy cooperative of cleveland was formed for public, charitable, scientific, and educational purposes relating to the improvement of the literacy rate in the greater cleveland area.
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
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.
America scores cleveland inspires urban youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.
Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…
The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Foluke Cultural Arts Center 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 43 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 89 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 THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds KARAMU HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds MERRICK HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEAR WEST THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES AUTISM RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Naaleh Cleveland Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Reinberger Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Abington Foundation · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Swagelok 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 Treu Mart Fund 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.