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William O & Gertrude L Frohring Fdn Im

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$380k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$658kHealth$454kEducation$138kFood & Nutrition$89kEmployment$81kEnvironment$79kAnimals$59kHuman Services$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $318k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$45,000
Food Strong$28,000
Cleveland Rocks Past Present and$25,000
Cleveland Rocks Past Present and$20,000
Cleveland Institute of Music$20,000
Foundation for Geauga Parks$20,000
Great Lakes Astrophotography$19,500
Piano International Association of$15,750
Lake View Cemetery Foundation$15,000
Rainey Institute$15,000
Cleveland Music School Settlement$15,000
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$15,000
Geauga County Historical Society$15,000
Geauga County Humane Society$10,000
Happy Trails Farm Animal Sanctuary$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 62% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Foundation for Geauga Parks: $20k → 6%AUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $45k → 9%AUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $36k → 9%Geauga County Historical Society: $15k → 6%Geauga County Historical Society: $15k → 6%Geauga County Historical Society: $15k → 6%Geauga County Historical Society: $15k → 6%Foundation for Geauga Parks: $20k → 6%Cuyahoga Community College Foundation: $15k → 17%Cuyahoga Community College Foundation: $15k → 17%University Hospitals Geauga Medical: $100k → 6%Cuyahoga Community College Foundation: $15k → 17%University Hospitals Geauga Medical: $50k → 6%Cuyahoga Community College Foundation: $15k → 17%University Hospitals Geauga Medical: $46k → 6%Old Brooklyn Community Development: $20k → 17%University Hospitals Geauga Medical: $35k → 6%University Hospitals Geauga Medical: $30k → 6%University Hospitals Geauga Medical: $25k → 6%Food Strong: $28k → 17%Food Strong: $28k → 17%Cleveland Rocks Past Present and: $25k → 17%Cleveland Rocks Past Present and: $25k → 17%Cleveland Rocks Past Present and: $20k → 17%Cleveland Rocks Past Present and: $20k → 17%Rainey Institute: $15k → 17%Rainey Institute: $15k → 17%Rainey Institute: $15k → 17%Rainey Institute: $15k → 17%Rainey Institute: $15k → 17%Piano International Association of: $19k → 17%Piano International Association of: $16k → 17%Piano Cleveland: $15k → 17%Piano Cleveland: $15k → 17%Piano Cleveland: $15k → 17%Medworks: $25k → 17%Medworks: $25k → 17%Medworks: $25k → 17%Cleveland Institute of Music: $20k → 17%Cleveland Institute of Music: $20k → 17%Cleveland Institute of Music: $20k → 17%Cleveland Institute of Music: $20k → 17%Cleveland Institute of Music: $20k → 17%Lake View Cemetery Foundation: $15k → 17%Cleveland Music School Settlement: $15k → 17%Cleveland Music School Settlement: $15k → 17%Cleveland Music School Settlement: $15k → 17%Great Lakes Astrophotography: $20k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 31 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+179%

Still filing today

81%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • PI
    PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $79k · revenue +77%
  • TC
    THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +103%
  • FS
    FOOD STRONG
    3× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +320%

Funded once

  • OB
    OLD BROOKLYN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +179%
  • NV
    NEWBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +201%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +14%

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
Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services
3
Citymusic Cleveland Inc

Citymusic cleveland is a professional chamber orchestra, which performs free concerts throughout n.e. ohio, accompanied by art shows of local artists. our mission is to develop audiences & build communities through the arts by presenting…

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Cleveland Arts Prize

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…

Arts & Culture
6
The Cleveland Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
7
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
8
Greater Columbus Arts Council

Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.

Arts & Culture
9
Columbus Music Commission

To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Cleveland Botanical Garden

The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.

Environment
12
Chamberfest Cleveland

Chamberfest cleveland presents world-class musicians in intensive summer chamber music festivals of imaginative & immersive programs that create original, engaging audience experiences.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Institute of Art and the most unlike its peers is The Musical Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%13%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr18%28%35–55yr18%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%14%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr18%28%35–55yr18%34%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
1,359/10,364

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

32 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. 32 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University Hospitals Geauga Medical — $285,744 · OtherUniversity Hospitals Geauga MedicalPIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH — $79,250 · OtherPIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OHMOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS — $75,000 · OtherMOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKSELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE — $75,000 · OtherELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTEGEAUGA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $60,000 · OtherGEAUGA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYMUSICAL UPCOMING STARS IN THE CLASSICS — $52,000 · OtherMUSICAL UPCOMING STARS IN THE CLASSICSWOMENSAFE INC — $47,735 · OtherFieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding — $40,500 · Other+11 more — $196,152 · Other+11 moreCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $100,000 · EducationCLEVELAND INSTITUTE O…AUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $81,000 · EducationAUBURN EDUCATION FOUN…CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $70,000 · EducationCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY CO…THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART — $37,500 · EducationTHE CLEVELAND INSTITU…INTERGENERATIONAL CLEVELAND — $20,000 · EducationINTERGENERATIONAL CLE…+2 more — $12,000 · EducationCleveland Rocks Past Present and Future — $90,000 · Arts & CultureCleveland Rock…THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND …LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Arts & CultureLAKEVIEW CEMET…FRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR GEAUGA PARKS — $62,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $16,983 · EnvironmentFOOD STRONG — $64,900 · Food & NutritionHANNA PERKINS SCHOOL — $43,500 · HealthINMOTION — $10,000 · HealthInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation — $6,000 · HealthGEAUGA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $45,735 · AnimalsHAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $10,000 · AnimalsVALLEY SAVE A PET INC — $3,000 · Animals
Other$911,381Education$320,500Arts & Culture$225,000Environment$78,983Food & Nutrition$64,900Health$59,500Animals$58,735

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 budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCleveland Rocks Past Present and Future — $90,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $81,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetPIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH — $79,250 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS — $75,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT — $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD STRONG — $64,900 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR GEAUGA PARKS — $62,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetGEAUGA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $60,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetMUSICAL UPCOMING STARS IN THE CLASSICS — $52,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC — $47,735 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGEAUGA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $45,735 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHANNA PERKINS SCHOOL — $43,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART — $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $29,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOLD BROOKLYN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINTERGENERATIONAL CLEVELAND — $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $16,983 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEWBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY SAVE A PET INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 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 Cleveland Foundat…Jewish Federation of …Richard Horvitz and E…The Lozick Family Fou…The Char and Chuck Fo…The George Gund Found…The Kelvin & Eleanor …Emma R Fox Char Trust…The Swagelok Foundati…George Codrington Fdn…The O'Neill Brothers …John P Murphy Foundat…
The Cleveland FoundationOH37.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Swagelok Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · John P Murphy 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 William O & Gertrude L Frohring Fdn Im 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 · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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