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Cavaliers Youth Foundation

To support programs for children, families, and young adults designed to positively impact the community in the areas of education, health, recreation, employment, entrepreneurship, and life skills.

$957k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Housing & Shelter$970kHealth$522kYouth Development$448kHuman Services$342kEducation$320kFood & Nutrition$243kRecreation & Sports$195kPublic Benefit$122kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 41 grants below total $725,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $957,405 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $232,405 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k39 grants · $625k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VETDOGS & AMERICAS VETDOGS$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEAST OHIO$50,000
THE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND$30,000
WOMENSAFE$30,000
FAMILY PROMISE$30,000
CLEVELAND PEACEMAKERS$30,000
BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES$30,000
THE CENTERS$30,000
NEW BRIDGE CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY$30,000
YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED$30,000
1000 TIES$30,000
A SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATION$30,000
LIFEACT$30,000
VISION TO LEARN$25,000
EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION$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 (FY20–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BATTERED WOMEN SHELTER: $10k → 13%EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION: $10k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $20k → 17%FRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT INC: $10k → 17%KOINONIA HOMES INC: $10k → 17%ZENWORKS YOGA: $10k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $15k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $10k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $10k → 17%THE CENTERS: $30k → 17%CLEVELAND PEACEMAKERS: $30k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIEESFATIMA FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 17%CARE ALLIANCE HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $13k → 17%CHAIR-ITY INC: $10k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $10k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $5k → 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

ME
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
MD
NC
DC
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 96% of Cavaliers Youth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 4%.

Cavaliers Youth Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 26 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
71

Total granted

$2.2M
$953k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+5%

Still filing today

92%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $885k · revenue +153%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO
    4× · 2019–2024 · $175k · revenue +357%
  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $138k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +47%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELANDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +142%
  • AS
    A SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -87%
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
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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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
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
4
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

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…

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5
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.

Education
6
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
7
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

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

Education
8
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
9
Community Learning Center Institute

Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.

Education
10
Cleveland Municipal School District Transformation

The cleveland transformation alliance (cta) is a trusted community partner working to ensure every student is engaged in a high-quality, equitable education. the cta gives families and students the information they need to commit to their…

Education
11
Lead Ohio

At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.

Education
12
Adoption Network Cleveland

Adoption network cleveland's mission is to connect and empower individuals, organizations, and communities impacted by adoption, kinship, and foster care, and we provide a source of healing for those in need.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Bessies Angels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

117 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. 117 of the 129 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/117
Grantees still filing
67/117
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $885,260 · Housing & ShelterGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FO…+1 more: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $80,000 · OtherACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDRENCITY YEAR INC: $71,899 · OtherCITY YEAR INCFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $45,000 · OtherYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $44,805 · OtherADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $60,000 · OtherTHE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $50,000 · OtherAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $50,000 · Other+61 more: $851,919 · Other+61 moreTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $118,768 · HealthTHE CLEVELAN…A SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATION CLEVELAND CHAPTER: $30,000 · HealthA SPECIAL WI…LIFEACT: $30,000 · HealthLIFEACTTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $30,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAN…VISION TO LEARN: $25,000 · HealthVISION TO LE…PRAYERS FROM MARIA CHILDREN'S GLIOMA CANCER FOUNDATION: $24,000 · HealthPRAYERS FROM…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $21,276 · HealthBeech Brook: $20,000 · HealthJessie Rees Foundation: $16,852 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $16,497 · Health+7 more: $73,130 · Health+7 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …1000 TIES: $30,000 · Youth Development1000 TIESOPEN DOORS INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPEN DOOR…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTH…Girls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio: $15,000 · Youth Development+5 more: $50,000 · Youth Development+5 moreSAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC: $100,000 · EducationSAY YES C…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $50,000 · EducationJUNIOR AC…BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $30,000 · EducationBIRTHING …THE TEACHING CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationTHE TEACH…CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $15,000 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $15,000 · EducationJOHN C HANEY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $10,000 · EducationACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF CLEVELAND: $10,000 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE TURN: $10,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $137,585 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $70,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $20,000 · Food & NutritionStark County Hunger Task Force Inc: $15,000 · Food & NutritionThe Centers for Families and Children: $30,000 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND PEACEMAKERS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $25,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF LITERACY: $20,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE: $13,384 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHAIR-ITY: $10,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesKOINONIA HOMES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMERRICK HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesZENWORKS YOGA: $10,000 · Human ServicesCARE ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Human Services
Housing & Shelter$905,260Other$1,253,623Health$405,523Youth Development$315,000Education$295,000Food & Nutrition$242,585Human Services$223,384

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 budgetGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $885,260 over 2y, 15% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $175,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $137,585 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $118,768 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $71,899 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $60,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $45,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $44,805 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATION INC: $35,394 over 1y, 13% of budget1000 TIES: $30,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetA SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATION CLEVELAND CHAPTER: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFEACT: $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND PEACEMAKERS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCleveland Christian Home Inc: $28,957 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRAYERS FROM MARIA CHILDREN'S GLIOMA CANCER FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $22,655 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $21,276 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TEACHING CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeech Brook: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHN HOUSING PARTNERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $16,852 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $16,497 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStark County Hunger Task Force Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 Char and Chuck Fo…The Swagelok Foundati…The George Gund Found…The Reinberger Founda…Higley Fund of the Cl…The Abington Foundati…Community West Founda…The Sk Wellman Founda…United Way of Greater…Jewish Federation of …The Cleveland Clinic …
The Cleveland FoundationOH114.7× affinity70 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 Swagelok Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

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 Cavaliers Youth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cavaliers Youth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
53report 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.

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 129 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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