How much did BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED grant in FY2024?

Human Services$84kHealth$43kEducation$39kYouth Development$24kPhilanthropy$13kFood & Nutrition$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCommunity Improvement$10kArts & Culture$10kOther$119k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

encore fellow

2019

encore fellow

2021

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2022

createslifelonglearnersageindependent livingadvocacydisabilities

2023

foster careparentspromotingadoption kinshipkinship fosterfacilitatingconflict

2024

squashmentalprogrammingartsyoga mindfulnessclevelandeducational

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$10,000
KIDS' BOOK BANK$10,000
WATERLOO ARTS$10,000
ZENWORKS YOGA$10,000
NAMI GREATER CLEVELAND$10,000
URBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND$10,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

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

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

Digitalc

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

Community Improvement

Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers engages people to serve the community through meaningful volunteer opportunities.

Philanthropy

Cleveland Builds Inc

Our mission is to connect motivated individuals in the greater cleveland area with career opportunities in construction.

Education

College Now Greater Cleveland Inc

To increase postsecondary educational attainment through college and career access advising, financial aid counseling and scholarship and retention services.

Education

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education

Cleveland Development Foundation

Developing and improving Cleveland's civic visions.

Community Improvement

Greater Columbus Chamber of

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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Cleveland Public Theatre Inc

To raise consciousness and nurture compassion through ground-breaking performances and life-changing educational programs

Arts & Culture

Cleveland Rape Crisis Center

The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.

Health

Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation

To promote increased media production in Northeast Ohio using effective strategies for attraction and workforce development including building an artistic infrastructure through film.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esperanza Inc and the most unlike its peers is Welcome House 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 23 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/41

the rest of the field

11%

1,109/9,777

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.

05the grantee network

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

30/40

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$84,000Other$148,500Health$42,500Education$38,500Youth Development$24,000Philanthropy$12,500Food & Nutrition$12,000

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.

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 FoundationOH63.6× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Stocker 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 organisation BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED 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

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Plexus.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +58% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 320269719 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Plexus, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Business Volunteers Unlimited?

Find your warmest path to Business Volunteers Unlimited through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Business Volunteers Unlimited?

More from the funding graph

BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Business Volunteers Unlimited?

More from the funding graph