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Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Workforce Development Board at a glance

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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.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $360k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+9 grants · $12M
$77,787
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%US TOGETHER INC: $14k → 15%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.
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.
03Its 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
Engage Cleveland Inc

Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater Cleveland.

Community Improvement
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
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
4
Cleveland Jobs With Justice

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.

Education
5
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
6
Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation

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…

Philanthropy
7
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
8
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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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9
Digitalc

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

Community Improvement
10
American Federation of Labor Ohio Afl-Cio

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…

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11
Cleveland Development Foundation

Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.

Community Improvement
12
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Towards Employment Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 41 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED LABOR AGENCY INC: $4,888,814 · OtherUNITED LABOR AGENCY INCTHE KAISER GROUP DBA DYNAMIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS: $1,763,415 · OtherTHE KAISER GROUP DBA DYNAMIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONSCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,481,296 · OtherCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGEURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $740,443 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELANDVALLEY COLLEGE: $693,215 · OtherVALLEY COLLEGE+24 more: $2,015,045 · Other+24 moreTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $1,153,129 · EmploymentTOWARDS EM…Economic Growth Foundation: $134,274 · EmploymentEconomic G…HARD HATTED WOMEN: $54,401 · EmploymentOhioGuidestone: $788,305 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $233,721 · Community ImprovementSpanish American Committee: $139,902 · Community ImprovementMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC: $107,964 · Community ImprovementCLEVELAND BUILDS INC: $336,736 · EducationACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF CLEVELAND: $60,174 · EducationASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $20,788 · EducationRID-ALL FOUNDATION INC: $124,116 · Youth DevelopmentUS TOGETHER INC: $14,358 · Human Services
Other$11,582,228Employment$1,341,804Health$788,305Community Improvement$481,587Education$417,698Youth Development$124,116Human Services$14,358

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 budgetOhioGuidestone: $788,305 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $233,721 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $202,014 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRID-ALL FOUNDATION INC: $124,116 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC: $107,964 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHARD HATTED WOMEN: $54,401 over 1y, 34% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $20,788 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS TOGETHER INC: $14,358 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 George Gund Found…The Reuter FoundationSaint Lukes Foundatio…The Swagelok Foundati…The Westfield Insuran…Columbus FoundationDeaconess FoundationMurphy Family Foundat…Higley Fund of the Cl…Third Federal Foundat…The Cleveland Clinic …
The Cleveland FoundationOH25.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Workforce Development Board funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Workforce Development Board. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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