· Public charity
Cleveland Rotary Foundation
Providing funding to further charitable and educational activities throughout northeastern ohio
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACEJAM FOUNDATION | $15,320 |
| THE BOWMAN CENTER | $7,500 |
| ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN | $7,500 |
| FOOTPATH FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| NANZE CHILDREN SERVICES | $6,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $5,448 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Cleveland Rotary Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 75%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +39%
- CNCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC3× · 2020–2023 · $27k · revenue +131%
- FFFOOTPATH FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6630one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -9%
- BIBECAUSE I SAID I WOULDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +79%
- HVHAITIAN VISION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THEA BOWMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOTPATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACEJAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6630 ↗
- Who funds Nanze Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cleveland Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cleveland Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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