· Public charity
Cuyahoga Land Bank Charities
CUYAHOGA LAND BANK CHARITIES, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit subsidiary of cuyahoga land bank, works in partnership with municipalities, nonprofits and faith-based organizations to help provide housing opportunities to vulnerable populations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $1,217,592 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,252,591 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,999 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $224k
- $250k+2 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC | $545,000 |
| CUYAHOGA COUNTY LAND REUTILIZATION CORPORATION | $355,457 |
| LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY | $65,000 |
| EVEREST LAND TITLE | $58,585 |
| BUILDING & LEVERAGING OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DNA RISING | $50,000 |
| BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY | $31,500 |
| GILTZ & ASSOCIATES | $31,500 |
| BESSIE'S ANGELS INC | $15,550 |
| HEROES SUPPORTING HEROES | $15,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +103%
- JCJordan Community Residential Center2× · 2020–2021 · $68k · revenue ×11
- BABessies Angels3× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- UBURBAN BRIDGESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +166%
- VHVETERANS HOUSING SOLUTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +240%
- TKTHE KHNEMU LIGHTHOUSEone grant, 2022 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
To impact community housing
We equip and empower women transitioning out of incarceration by providing stable employment and housing, life skills, and mentors to walk alongside them. Through this, we inspire hope, disrupt cycles of incarceration, and restore families.
Operation Rebuild Hope serves veterans by providing fast-tracked housing solutions and support services to those in need
We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.
To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future
Faith based residential program that will provide a safe environment for women to be transformed from teh inside out. a place that helps women bring order, accountability, and a strong spiritual foundation where there has been chaos, lack…
The fuller center for housing, faith-driven and christ-centered, promotes collaborative and partnership with individuals and organizations in an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter.
To provide a safe, transitional living home for drug-addicted, incarcerated women when they leave jail or detention systems.
Detailed on Sch O
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Bridges and the most unlike its peers is Bessies Angels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 25 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 GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Building & Leveraging Opportunities Foundation ↗
- Who funds DNA RISING ↗
- Who funds Jordan Community Residential Center ↗
- Who funds Bessies Angels ↗
- Who funds URBAN BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
- Who funds THE MEETING PLACE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEROES SUPPORTING HEROES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds MARANATHA BIBLE COLLEGE & INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OHIO LAND BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Community West Foundation · Dollar Bank Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cuyahoga Land Bank Charities 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Cuyahoga Land Bank Charities?
Find your warmest path to Cuyahoga Land Bank Charities 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.