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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$545k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.2MEnvironment$447kReligion$266kHuman Services$143kCommunity Improvement$121kArts & Culture$50kEmployment$50kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $1,217,592, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,252,591 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,999 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $224k
  • $250k+2 grants · $900k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEROES SUPPORTING HEROES: $15k → 11%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 9 repeat orgs$460k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +50% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$2.0M
$354k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
+50%

Still filing today

89%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEmploymentPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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

  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +103%
  • JC
    Jordan Community Residential Center
    2× · 2020–2021 · $68k · revenue ×11
  • BA
    Bessies Angels
    3× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +212%

Funded once

  • UB
    URBAN BRIDGESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +166%
  • VH
    VETERANS HOUSING SOLUTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +240%
  • KS
    KING'S SON 820
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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2
Vision for Life

To impact community housing

Housing & Shelter
3
His House Outreach Ministries Inc Dba She Brews Coffee & Transition Prog

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Home for Homeless Women
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5
Operation Rebuild Hope

Operation Rebuild Hope serves veterans by providing fast-tracked housing solutions and support services to those in need

Public Benefit
6
House of Hope

We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.

Human Services
7
Born Again Ministries

To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future

Health
8
Lifehouse Ministries Inc
Housing & Shelter
9
The House That Mercy Built

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…

Religion
10
The Fuller Center for Housing Inc

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.

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11
One Bridge to Hope Inc

To provide a safe, transitional living home for drug-addicted, incarcerated women when they leave jail or detention systems.

Health
12
Habitat for Humanity in Cleveland County

Detailed on Sch O

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Bridges; 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.
04the 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 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,105,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCCUYAHOGA COUNTY LAND REUTILIZATION CORP: $383,407 · OtherCUYAHOGA COUNTY LAND REUTILIZATION CORPDNA RISING: $85,000 · OtherDNA RISINGEVEREST LAND TITLE: $58,585 · OtherEVEREST LAND TITLEKING'S SON 820: $50,000 · OtherKING'S SON 820THE KHNEMU LIGHTHOUSE: $50,000 · OtherTHE KHNEMU LIGHTHOUSEMINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION INC: $33,876 · OtherGILTZ & ASSOCIATES: $31,500 · OtherVETERANS HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC: $50,000 · OtherVETERANS HOUSING SOLUTIONS INCWOMEN OF HOPE INC: $48,729 · Other+8 more: $130,570 · Other+8 moreLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $110,000 · ReligionBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $33,500 · ReligionMARANATHA BIBLE COLLEGE & INSTITUTE: $5,000 · ReligionBuilding & Leveraging Opportunities Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyJordan Community Residential Center: $67,973 · HealthBessies Angels: $60,420 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN BRIDGES: $50,000 · Employment
Housing & Shelter$1,105,000Other$921,667Religion$148,500Philanthropy$100,000Health$67,973Youth Development$60,420Employment$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,105,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $110,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBuilding & Leveraging Opportunities Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetDNA RISING: $85,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetBessies Angels: $60,420 over 3y, 20% of budgetURBAN BRIDGES: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWOMEN OF HOPE INC: $48,729 over 2y, 34% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $33,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MEETING PLACE LEARNING CENTER: $22,308 over 1y, 10% of budgetHEROES SUPPORTING HEROES: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARANATHA BIBLE COLLEGE & INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOHIO LAND BANK ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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…Higley Fund of the Cl…Murphy Family Foundat…Community West Founda…Dollar Bank FoundationNetwork for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cleveland FoundationOH22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cuyahoga Land Bank Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cuyahoga Land Bank Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 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.

    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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