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Cleveland Rotary Foundation

Providing funding to further charitable and educational activities throughout northeastern ohio

$88k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$48k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,320
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Cleveland Rotary Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPublic BenefitOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$48k40%
FY20242$11k0%
FY20234$23k50%
FY20223$20k0%
FY20216$44k83%
FY20202$14kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$66kHealth$31kInternational$30kCivil Rights$15kYouth Development$15kHuman Services$11kCommunity Improvement$6kEnvironment$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Achievement Centers for Children$36,03050%
College Now Greater Cleveland Inc$27,38630%
Thea Bowman Center$22,50032%
Footpath Foundation$21,00033%
Peacejam Foundation$15,32011%
Reach Success Inc$11,06021%
Rotary International District 6630$6,25013%
Nanze Childrens Services Inc$6,0001n/a
Because I Said I Would$5,00010%
Haitian Vision Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Cleveland Rotary Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Achievement Centers for Children$36,03050%
College Now Greater Cleveland Inc$27,38630%
Thea Bowman Center$22,50032%
Footpath Foundation$21,00033%
Peacejam Foundation$15,32011%
Reach Success Inc$11,06021%
Rotary International District 6630$6,25013%
Nanze Childrens Services Inc$6,0001n/a
Because I Said I Would$5,00010%
Haitian Vision Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Cleveland State University Foundation$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cleveland Rotary Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAchievement Centers for Children: $36,030 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Now Greater Cleveland Inc: $27,386 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThea Bowman Center: $22,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFootpath Foundation: $21,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPeacejam Foundation: $15,320 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetReach Success Inc: $11,060 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRotary International District 6630: $6,250 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBecause I Said I Would: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCleveland State University Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 9.

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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · 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.

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About Cleveland Rotary Foundation

How much does Cleveland Rotary Foundation give?
Cleveland Rotary Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $47,768, out of $87,958 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Cleveland Rotary Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (17%), International (16%).
Who are Cleveland Rotary Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Achievement Centers for Children ($36k), College Now Greater Cleveland Inc ($27k), Thea Bowman Center ($23k).
Does Cleveland Rotary Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cleveland Rotary Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Cleveland Rotary Foundation based?
Cleveland Rotary Foundation is based in OH.

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 12 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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