How much does Business Volunteers Unlimited give?

Business Volunteers Unlimited reported 6 itemized grants totaling $60,000, out of $64,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Business Volunteers Unlimited fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Human Services (17%), Education (15%).

Who are Business Volunteers Unlimited's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Assessment & Treatment Services Inc ($13k), Art Therapy Studio ($13k), Cleveland Municipal School District Transformation ($13k).

Does Business Volunteers Unlimited fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Business Volunteers Unlimited?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, The George Gund Foundation.

Where is Business Volunteers Unlimited based?

Business Volunteers Unlimited is based in OH.

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Ohio · Public charity

Business Volunteers Unlimited

Bringing businesses and nonprofits together to provide board participation opportunities, volunteer referrals, and training to strengthen the overall performance of nonprofits primarily in northeast ohio.

$64k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 6
Itemized grants FY2024: 7
Organizations funded FY2023: 100%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $60k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 7; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $2.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Business Volunteers Unlimited funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	6	$60k	100%
FY2023	7	$70k	100%
FY2022	6	$60k	100%
FY2021	3	$30k	100%
FY2019	5	$58k	100%
FY2018	3	$31k	100%
FY2017	5	$54k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Health$100kHuman Services$62kEducation$56kCommunity Improvement$33kYouth Development$24kEmployment$20kFood & Nutrition$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Assessment & Treatment Services Inc	$12,500	1	0%
Art Therapy Studio	$12,500	1	2%
Cleveland Municipal School District Transformation	$12,500	1	3%
Group Plan Commission	$12,500	1	1%
Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center	$12,500	1	0%
Catholic Charities Corporation	$12,000	1	0%
Effective Leadership Academy	$12,000	1	2%
Open Doors Inc	$12,000	1	0%
The Gathering Place	$12,000	1	0%
Spice Field Kitchen Inc	$12,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Business Volunteers Unlimited by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Assessment & Treatment Services Inc	$12,500	1	0%
Art Therapy Studio	$12,500	1	2%
Cleveland Municipal School District Transformation	$12,500	1	3%
Group Plan Commission	$12,500	1	1%
Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center	$12,500	1	0%
Catholic Charities Corporation	$12,000	1	0%
Effective Leadership Academy	$12,000	1	2%
Open Doors Inc	$12,000	1	0%
The Gathering Place	$12,000	1	0%
Spice Field Kitchen Inc	$12,000	1	n/a
Benjamin Rose Institute	$10,000	1	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Cleveland Mediation Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Adoption Network Cleveland	$10,000	1	2%
Urban Squash Cleveland	$10,000	1	1%
Esperanza Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Welcome House Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Achievement Centers for Children	$10,000	1	0%
Linking Employment Abilities and Potential	$10,000	1	1%
Cleveland Kids' Book Bank	$10,000	1	1%
Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center	$10,000	1	0%
Bighearted Blooms	$10,000	1	15%
Zenworks Yoga	$10,000	1	11%
Plexus Education Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	17%
Canopy Child Advocacy Center	$10,000	1	1%
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry	$10,000	1	0%
Nami-Greater Cleveland	$10,000	1	1%
Union Miles Development Corporation	$10,000	1	1%
Waterloo Arts	$10,000	1	6%
Near West Intergenerational School	$10,000	1	0%
The Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Argonaut	$10,000	1	1%
Council of International Programs USA	$6,000	1	1%
Friends of Max S Hayes Vocational High School	$6,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Business Volunteers Unlimited supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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 FoundationOH61.5× affinity30 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 Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic 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.

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About Business Volunteers Unlimited

How much does Business Volunteers Unlimited give?: Business Volunteers Unlimited reported 6 itemized grants totaling $60,000, out of $64,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Business Volunteers Unlimited fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Human Services (17%), Education (15%).
Who are Business Volunteers Unlimited's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Assessment & Treatment Services Inc ($13k), Art Therapy Studio ($13k), Cleveland Municipal School District Transformation ($13k).
Does Business Volunteers Unlimited fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Business Volunteers Unlimited?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, The George Gund Foundation.
Where is Business Volunteers Unlimited based?: Business Volunteers Unlimited is based in OH.