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Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$487k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.3MYouth Development$981kRecreation & Sports$901kPublic Safety & Disaster$485kHuman Services$79kHealth$46kArts & Culture$39kCommunity Improvement$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT$200,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO$100,000
CITY OF CLEVELAND$33,063
PITCCH IN FOUNDATION$26,000
POSITIVE COACHES ALLIANCE$10,000
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAKE COUNTY$8,000
MAPLE HEIGHTS BOYS LEAGUE$8,000
JARDIN 4 LIFE INC (ROBERTO CLEMENTE LEAGUE)$8,000
WEST DENISON BASEBALL LEAGUES INC$8,000
NEAR WEST RECREATION CENTER OHIO CITY INCORPORATED$8,000
EMPOWER SPORTS$8,000
B BUZZ BASEBALL LEAGUE$8,000
OLD BROOKLYN AREA LITTLE LEAGUE OBALL$8,000
ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN$8,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EMPOWER SPORTS: $8k → 17%EMPOWER SPORTS: $8k → 17%EMPOWER SPORTS: $8k → 17%EMPOWER SPORTS: $8k → 17%EMPOWER SPORTS: $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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 25 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
35

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

60%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO
    5× · 2020–2025 · $446k · revenue +22%
  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $68k · revenue +56%
  • PC
    POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • QD
    QUALIFIED DISASTER RELIEF GRANTS TO
    one grant, 2020 · $485k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $130k
  • CB
    CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION
    one grant, 2019 · $125k
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
Northeast Ohio Youth Sports

Training & Education

Youth Development
2
Launch Baseball Inc

Providing sports to youth in the community.

Recreation & Sports
3
East Liverpool Area Youth Baseball

Youth baseball league ages 4-14

Recreation & Sports
4
Central Accomack Little League

Provide little league association in our county for youth baseball and softball participants. to teach and practice team and leadership skills..

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5
Youngstown Class B Baseball Inc
Philanthropy
6
Northern Kentucky Sports Club

Youth Sports Organization

Recreation & Sports
7
Cambridge City Youth League

To provide youth with baseball and softball in wayne county

Recreation & Sports
8
Chardon Storm Fastpitch Inc

Provide education guidance and training in youth sports and community involvement in a safe and positive environment

Recreation & Sports
9
Green Baseball-Softball Federation

Community Service - Youth Baseball / Softball League

Recreation & Sports
10
Morgantown Baseball League

Providing a Youth Baseball League for North Central WV expanding across 3 counties

Recreation & Sports
11
Portage Youth Baseball Club Inc
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12
Little League Baseball Inc

Little League Inc. is a non-profit youth organization in New York City.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Get in the Game. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 70 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
17/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTR: $812,904 · OtherCLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRQUALIFIED DISASTER RELIEF GRANTS TO: $485,450 · OtherQUALIFIED DISASTER RELIEF GRANTS TOBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $456,170 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELANDCITY OF CLEVELAND RECREATION DEPARTMENT: $330,088 · OtherCITY OF CLEVELAND RECREATION DEPARTMENTCLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $200,000 · OtherCLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $130,000 · Other+45 more: $586,009 · Other+45 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $445,905 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…GET IN THE GAME: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION: $125,000 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAKE COUNTY: $36,000 · Recreation & SportsPITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · Recreation & SportsOLD BROOKLYN AREA LITTLE LEAGUE: $24,000 · Recreation & SportsCONCORD-LEROY-PAINESVILLE YAA INC: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $21,500 · Recreation & SportsBaldwin Wallace University: $100,000 · EducationPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $60,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $51,905 · EducationCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $5,500 · EducationEMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION: $37,000 · Human ServicesOHIO CITY INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,000,621Youth Development$470,905Recreation & Sports$247,500Education$242,405Human Services$37,000Community Improvement$30,000Arts & Culture$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $445,905 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $67,587 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $51,905 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWEST DENISON BASEBALL LEAGUES INC: $40,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetEMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION: $37,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAKE COUNTY: $36,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO CITY INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGET IN THE GAME: $25,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOLD BROOKLYN AREA LITTLE LEAGUE: $24,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCONCORD-LEROY-PAINESVILLE YAA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCUYAHOGA FALLS LITTLE LEAGUE NORTH INC: $8,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWEST AKRON BASEBALL LEAGUE: $6,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus Recreation and Parks Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF FINDLAY: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD GIRLS SOFTBALL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNEAUT LOCAL YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetB B A INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE DIAMOND CLUB OF HUDSON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFISHER-TITUS MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds WEST DENISON BASEBALL LEAGUES INC ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds OHIO CITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GET IN THE GAME ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OLD BROOKLYN AREA LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD-LEROY-PAINESVILLE YAA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds CUYAHOGA FALLS LITTLE LEAGUE NORTH 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.

Dick's Sporting Goods…The Cleveland Foundat…Good Sports IncSisters of Charity Fo…Hudson Community Foun…The Char and Chuck Fo…The George Gund Found…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Dick's Sporting Goods FoundationPA16.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Hudson Community Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Guardians Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%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
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 70 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-PF 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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