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Global Cleveland

GLOBAL CLEVELAND is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

$115k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.

Human Services$198kInternational$70kCommunity Improvement$26kHealth$23kReligion$20kEducation$15kEmployment$8k
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $109,388 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $114,738 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,350 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFGHAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$68,446
MAY DUGAN$25,000
EAST 66TH STREET SERVICES$10,917
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY$5,025
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ASIAN SERVICE IN ACTION INC: $20k → 13%US TOGETHER: $20k → 15%US TOGETHER: $6k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 17%REFUGEE RESPONSE: $50k → 17%MAY DUGAN: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Community Refugee & Immigration Services Inc

Community refugee and immigration services, inc.'s mission is to help refugees and immigrants reach and sustain sufficiency and acheive successful integration into the centrl ohio community through teaching, employment assistance,…

Human Services
2
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
3
Ebenezer Healthcare Access Inc

Ebenezer healthcare access helps immigrants to overcome language and cultural barriers in accessing healthcare services, by providing health education, medical scheduling, cultural competency training for healthcare professionals,…

Health
4
Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc

Catholic charities of louisville serves people in need, especially the poor and oppressed. consistent with the principles of catholic social teaching, we build bridges of hope, mercy, and justice as we accompany struggling families and…

Human Services
5
Immigrant & Refugee Law Center

The Immigrant and Refugee Law Center provides accessible legal services to immigrant and refugee families in the Greater Cincinnati community.

Crime & Legal
6
Ohio Immigrant Alliance

Ohio immigrant alliance is a group of ohio immigrants and citizens working together to protect the dignity and rights of all individuals who choose to make ohio their homeregardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity…

Civil Rights
7
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
8
Center for Integration and Migrant Support

CIMS was founded to address the urgent and unmet needs of Sub-Saharan African migrant and refugee families in greater Philadelphia, particularly Congolese households facing food insecurity, trauma, language barriers, and economic hardship.…

Human Services
9
Neighborhood Progress Inc

Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…

Community Improvement
10
Partnership for Good Health

To advance health equity by reducing cultural and language barriers to healthcare and resources in cuyahoga county.

Human Services
11
Salaam Cleveland

Salaam cleveland promotes diversity and spread the message of peace, unity and equality. this is done based on common ethical principles to benefit all communities in northeast ohio, and to provide care to assist the homeless, and refugees.

Food & Nutrition
12
West Side Catholic Center

The west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Smart Development Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RESOURCE CLEVELAND — $50,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CLEVELANDUS TOGETHER INC — $25,500 · Human ServicesUS TOGETHER INCNear Westside MultiService Corp — $25,000 · Human ServicesNear Westside MultiService CorpASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATIONUS COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC — $70,000 · OtherUS COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMM…SUPPLYNOW — $15,400 · OtherSUPPLYNOWCleveland State University — $15,025 · OtherCleveland State UniversityEQUITY LANGUAGES AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES — $7,500 · OtherEQUITY LANGUAGES AND EMPLOYMENT S…AFGHAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $68,446 · Membership BenefitAFGHAN COMMUNITY ASSO…BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY — $20,000 · ReligionEAST 66TH STREET SERVICES INC — $10,917 · Community ImprovementSMART DEVELOPMENT INC — $9,071 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC — $8,000 · Health
Human Services$135,500Other$107,925Membership Benefit$68,446Religion$20,000Community Improvement$19,988Health$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUS COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetUS TOGETHER INC — $25,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST 66TH STREET SERVICES INC — $10,917 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMART DEVELOPMENT INC — $9,071 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Community West Founda…The George Gund Found…Three Arches Foundati…Healthy Lakewood Foun…Healthcomp FoundationWoodruff FoundationThe Reuter FoundationThe McGregor Foundati…The Andrews FoundationThe Abington Foundati…Murphy Family Foundat…
The Cleveland FoundationOH21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Three Arches Foundation · Healthy Lakewood Foundation · Healthcomp Foundation · Woodruff Foundation · The Reuter Foundation · The McGregor Foundation · The Andrews Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Murphy Family 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 Global Cleveland 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $6k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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