· Public charity
Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Workforce Development Board
Greater cleveland works (CLEVELAND-CUYAHOGA COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD) delivers impactful services for people and employers and drives the workforce ecosystem in cleveland and cuyahoga county.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+9 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED LABOR AGENCY INC | $4,888,814 |
| THE KAISER GROUP DBA DYNAMIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS | $1,763,415 |
| CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,481,296 |
| TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC | $1,153,129 |
| OHIOGUIDESTONE | $788,305 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $740,443 |
| VALLEY COLLEGE | $693,215 |
| CLEVELAND BUILDS | $336,736 |
| NORTHERN CAREER INSTITUTE | $296,031 |
| CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS | $233,721 |
| GREAT LAKES TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOL | $233,059 |
| LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $212,121 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED | $202,014 |
| CITY OF CLEVELAND | $153,776 |
| SPANISH AMERICAN COMMITTEE | $139,902 |
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 (FY25–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater 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.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.
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…
To promote the increase of media production in Northeast Ohio using effective strategies for attraction and workforce development including building an artistic infrastructure through film, achieve increased economic development in…
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.
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.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
To advance middle class and working class values by promoting social and economic justice. we join together over 263,000 union members to make our voice heard in the policy and political arenas. the ohio afl-cio represents 1,787 local…
Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Towards Employment Inc 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
15 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. 15 of the 41 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 UNITED LABOR AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BUILDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Spanish American Committee ↗
- Who funds Economic Growth Foundation ↗
- Who funds RID-ALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds HARD HATTED WOMEN ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds US TOGETHER 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 · The Reuter Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · The Swagelok Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Deaconess Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic 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 Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Workforce Development Board 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.
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.