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University Hospitals Health System Inc Group Return

University hospitals (the system) is guided by its mission "to heal.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$940k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$15MCommunity Improvement$977kArts & Culture$634kEducation$619kHuman Services$405kRecreation & Sports$228kPhilanthropy$187kScience & Tech$154kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $270k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARMA HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$940,212
LAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$402,675
ROBINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$360,737
GREATER CLEVELAND REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY$125,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$77,500
THE MT SINAI HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$67,666
YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO$20,000
ACADEMY OF MEDICINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$15,000
LIFEACT$15,000
FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS$15,000
ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$11,740
PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND$10,000
BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED$10,000
PFLAG$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $549k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 14%ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $103k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $70k → 13%ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $59k → 13%ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $44k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $16k → 13%ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $12k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $25k → 17%PASSAGES CONNECTING FATHERS AND SONS INC: $10k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $20k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $100k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $38k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 33 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
37

Total granted

$17M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+9%

Still filing today

94%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
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

  • PH
    PARMA HOSPITAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +139% · 86% of their budget
  • LH
    LAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +97% · 71% of their budget
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • FE
    FRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -96%
  • IC
    IMG COLLEGE LLC
    one grant, 2018 · $189k
  • CR
    CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $154k
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
Diabetes Partnership of Cleveland

Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.

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2
Cleveland Development Foundation

Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.

Community Improvement
3
Greater Cleveland Partnership

Business association mobilizing private, civic, and public leadership, expertise, and resources to accelerate growth and prosperity across the region.

Community Improvement
4
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

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…

Philanthropy
5
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
6
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
7
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
8
Atrium Medical Center Foundation

To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.

Health
9
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
10
Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…

Health
11
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
12
Mount Carmel Health System

We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Western Reserve Historical Society. 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

64 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. 64 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
46/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARMA HOSPITAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $7,097,181 · HealthPARMA HOSPITAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONROBINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,279,457 · HealthROBINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,392,286 · HealthLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,133,800 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $760,000 · Health+13 more: $662,201 · HealthGREATER CLEVELAND REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY: $750,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVE…YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $320,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS …GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION: $191,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVE…IMG COLLEGE LLC: $189,100 · OtherIMG COLLEGE L…CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INC: $154,385 · OtherCHARLES RIVER…REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY: $125,000 · OtherREGIONAL TRAN…+21 more: $463,500 · Other+21 moreELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $304,871 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE: $162,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL CLEVELAND: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY: $250,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCOLLECTIVE ARTS NETWORK: $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $26,667 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Association: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $37,500 · Arts & CultureACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF CLEVELAND: $200,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $81,500 · EducationCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $37,000 · EducationCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+3 more: $26,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $131,962 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyEconomic Growth Foundation: $100,000 · EmploymentTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $10,000 · Employment
Health$14,324,925Other$2,192,985Human Services$549,371Arts & Culture$529,167Education$369,500Philanthropy$186,962Employment$110,000

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 budgetPARMA HOSPITAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $7,097,181 over 8y, 86% of budgetROBINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,279,457 over 8y, 88% of budgetLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,392,286 over 3y, 71% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,133,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $760,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $320,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $304,871 over 6y, 14% of budgetFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMt Sinai Health Care Foundation: $201,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF CLEVELAND: $200,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION: $191,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetLIFEACT: $185,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $162,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $131,962 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEconomic Growth Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $81,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $63,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY: $60,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLECTIVE ARTS NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKER HEIGHTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $32,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Community Health Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $26,667 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $26,201 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDTOWN CLEVELAND INC: $24,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPFLAG: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF MEDICINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFLASHES OF HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMEDWISH MEDWORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Cleveland Foundat…The Cleveland Clinic …The Cleveland Clinic …The George Gund Found…The Char and Chuck Fo…Jewish Federation of …Akron Community Found…Mt Sinai Health Care …Dominion Energy Chari…The Swagelok Foundati…Firstenergy FoundationThe Fedeli Family Cha…
The Cleveland FoundationOH57× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Akron Community Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Fedeli Family Charitable 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 University Hospitals Health System Inc Group Return funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University Hospitals Health System Inc Group Return. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    23report 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.
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    How do I get to University Hospitals Health System Inc Group Return?

    Find your warmest path to University Hospitals Health System Inc Group Return through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 74 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 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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