· Private foundation
Woodruff Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k21 grants · $421k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER OF | $50,000 |
| THE CENTERS FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| THRIVE FOR CHANGE | $25,000 |
| LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY | $25,000 |
| STELLA MARIS | $25,000 |
| PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES | $25,000 |
| NAMI GREATER CLEVELAND | $25,000 |
| THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC | $20,785 |
| SIGNATURE HEALTH INC | $20,000 |
| CANOPY | $15,000 |
| THE LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDE | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $491k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 9 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- SMSTELLA MARIS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +172%
- CCCleveland Christian Home Inc4× · 2017–2023 · $158k · revenue +108%
- LMLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY8× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- MHMENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADV COALITIONone grant, 2019 · $35k
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue +43%- EDEMERALD DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMIC NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +57%
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 ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Serves as a safety net for those summit county residents who are most in need of behavioral health services as a result of severe and persistent mental illness the agency proveides comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective treatment,…
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Compass helps individuals and families build better lives and a stronger community.
To provide mental health care to children, adults, and families of the fairfield county area and occasionally to other counties in the state of ohio
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
To provide mental health, substance abuse, and integrated care services to residents of ross, pike, pickaway, fayette, and highland counties in ohio.
Unison behavioral health group, inc. is a community mental health agency that provides mental health and addiction services to lucas and wood counties. our mental health outpatient services are offered at many levels of care depending on a…
To provide behavioral healthcare services for the continual enhancement of the quality of life across the life span, emphasizing treatment, community involvement, and innovative programs.
To provide collaborative care and advocacy for people through three pillars of service: mental health, addiction recovery, and social support.
Our mission is to help the people we serve get better, sooner, for longer. centerpointe serves some of the most vulnerable in our communities who have co-occuring mental and physical health diagnoses, and who are experiencing or at risk of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is OhioGuidestone and the most unlike its peers is Us Together Inc. 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 48 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 79 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 STELLA MARIS INC ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Christian Home Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HEALING ↗
- Who funds LIFEACT ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Beech Brook ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
- Who funds FAR WEST CENTER ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES ↗
- 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 George Gund Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Abington Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · E S Prentiss Foundation-Ir · Ridgecliff Foundation · Three Arches 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 Woodruff 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.
- 2ND Act Org Inc — 5% 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.
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