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Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers

Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers association forges key partnerships with community based organizations to support educational programs and connect with residents and promote more

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Civil Rights$433kPublic Benefit$268kCrime & Legal$141kHuman Services$125kCommunity Improvement$89kSocial Science$70kArts & Culture$40kInternational$30kYouth Development$29kOther$302k
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $954,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,006,944 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,444 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

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $541k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $381k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ohio Justice & Policy Cent$103,000
The TAP Foundation$101,000
Ohio Organizing Collaborat$75,000
ACLU$52,000
Policy Matters Ohio$50,000
Peace Development Fund$30,000
Ohio Voice$28,500
Gr Cleveland Congregations$22,500
Ohio Families United Again$22,000
Vincentian Ohio Action Net$20,000
Heartbeat Movement$20,000
Freedom ROC$20,000
Ohioans to Stop Executions$20,000
Healing Broken Circles$20,000
The Bail Project$20,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 11%Gr Cleve Delta Fdn Life De: $15k → 17%Healing Broken Circles: $20k → 15%Vincentian Ohio Action Net: $20k → 15%Juvenile Justice Coalition: $20k → 15%NUEVA LUZ URBAN RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 17%Northeast Ohio Coalition: $15k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR HOMELESS: $9k → 17%ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION: $8k → 17%M PAC Cleveland: $13k → 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 edge
repeat funding

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$805k · 17 repeat orgs$681k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
17

Total granted

$805k
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+56%

Still filing today

94%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $527k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

  • OJ
    OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $209k · revenue +79%
  • OV
    OHIO VOICE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $139k · revenue +31%
  • TO
    THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $83k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SU
    SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +252%
  • TL
    The Land Cle
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue -36%
  • Y
    YG2Dgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +142%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Cleveland Jobs With Justice

To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.

Education
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
Opportunity City Political Action Committee

Local ballot issue committee

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4
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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5
Justice League

The mission of Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center (OCVJC) is to ensure that the constitutional and statutory rights of Ohio crime victims are protected and enforced in state and federal jurisdictions in all 88 Ohio counties. To fulfill this…

Crime & Legal
6
Cleveland Mediation Center

Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…

Crime & Legal
7
Ohio Progressive Collaborative

To convene a high capacity group of donors that strategically leverage resources to achieve political and policy goals advancing the progressive movement in Ohio by strengthening infrastructure.

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8
Ohioans for Redistricting Reform

Research organization focuses on eliminating and preventing gerrymandering in the State of Ohio.

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9
Lead Ohio

At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.

Education
10
The Ohio Environmental Council

To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.

Environment
11
Ohio Alliance for Civil Justice Inc

The ohio alliance for civil justice is a not-for-profit broad-based coalition which works to reform ohio's civil justice system.

Civil Rights
12
League of Women Voters of Ohio

The league of women voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ohio Organizing Collaborative 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.

Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%45%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr20%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%10%<5yr13%29%5–10yr17%8%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr16%36%35–55yr20%6%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
13%
3,620/28,022

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 58 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
27/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $209,300 · Civil RightsOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTERAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION O…OHIOANS TO STOP EXECUTIONS — $45,000 · Civil RightsOHIOANS TO STOP EXECUTIONSFair Elections Center — $35,500 · Civil RightsFair Elections CenterCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH — $22,500 · Civil RightsNORTHEAST OHIO VOTER ADVOCATES INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC — $18,000 · Civil RightsDEATH PENALTY ACTION — $15,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $7,500 · Civil RightsOHIO VOICE — $138,500 · Public BenefitOHIO VOICETHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $82,500 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING…PROMISE OF DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 · Public BenefitPROMISE OF DEMOCRAC…GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC — $22,500 · Public BenefitGREATER CLEVELAND C…ACLU — $52,000 · OtherACLUORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS INC — $21,000 · OtherRACIAL JUSTICE NOW — $20,000 · OtherFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 · OtherHEARTBEAT MOVEMENT INC — $20,000 · OtherRenounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program Corporation — $18,000 · OtherALPHA OMEGA FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 · OtherYoung Latino Network — $23,000 · OtherYoung Latino NetworkThe Land Cle — $17,000 · OtherPeace Development Fund — $30,000 · OtherPeace Development FundWRITERS IN RESIDENCE — $20,000 · OtherLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY — $23,500 · OtherLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTR…TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $19,500 · Other+12 more — $100,500 · Other+12 moreTAP Foundation — $101,000 · Crime & LegalTAP Founda…THE BAIL PROJECT INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BAIL P…ORIANA HOUSE INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalORIANA HOU…NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $23,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST…HEALING BROKEN CIRCLES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHEALING B…VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK — $20,000 · Human ServicesVINCENTIA…JUVENILE JUSTICE COALITION — $20,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE …GREATER CLEVELAND DELTA FOUNDATION LIFE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $14,500 · Human ServicesGREATER C…M-PAC CLEVELAND — $12,500 · Human ServicesM-PAC CLE…ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesASIAN SER…NUEVA LUZ URBAN RESOURCE CENTER — $7,500 · Human ServicesNUEVA LUZ…MIDTOWN CLEVELAND INC — $23,500 · Community ImprovementOHIO FAMILIES UNITE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY — $22,000 · Community ImprovementSMART DEVELOPMENT INC — $14,500 · Community ImprovementOhio Womens Alliance — $7,500 · Community ImprovementJEFFERSON-PURITAS WEST PARK CDC — $7,500 · Community ImprovementTREMONT WEST DEVELOPMENT CORP — $7,000 · Community ImprovementCleveland Owns — $7,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICY MATTERS OHIO — $50,000 · Social ScienceHARM REDUCTION OHIO — $20,000 · Social Science
Civil Rights$432,800Public Benefit$267,500Other$400,500Crime & Legal$141,000Human Services$125,000Community Improvement$89,000Social Science$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $209,300 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetOHIO VOICE — $138,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTAP Foundation — $101,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $82,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetOHIOANS TO STOP EXECUTIONS — $45,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetFair Elections Center — $35,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPeace Development Fund — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROMISE OF DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY — $23,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDTOWN CLEVELAND INC — $23,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYoung Latino Network — $23,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $23,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH — $22,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC — $22,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOHIO FAMILIES UNITE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY — $22,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHEALING BROKEN CIRCLES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetVINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWRITERS IN RESIDENCE — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetJUVENILE JUSTICE COALITION — $20,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetORIANA HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO VOTER ADVOCATES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHARM REDUCTION OHIO — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRenounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program Corporation — $18,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Land Cle — $17,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetALPHA OMEGA FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetDEATH PENALTY ACTION — $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND DELTA FOUNDATION LIFE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $14,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSMART DEVELOPMENT INC — $14,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetM-PAC CLEVELAND — $12,500 over 1y, 28% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYG2D — $9,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES — $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Environmental Leaders Association — $8,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEYEJ — $8,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetSee You At The Top — $8,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNUEVA LUZ URBAN RESOURCE CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOhio Womens Alliance — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEFFERSON-PURITAS WEST PARK CDC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTREMONT WEST DEVELOPMENT CORP — $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCleveland Owns — $7,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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…The George Gund Found…Ohio VoiceThe Char and Chuck Fo…The Center for Commun…Saint Lukes Foundatio…New Venture FundThe Nord Family Found…Amalgamated Charitabl…Borealis PhilanthropyPinnacle Gardens Foun…NEO Philanthropy Inc
The Cleveland FoundationOH65.4× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Ohio Voice · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Center for Community Solutions · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · New Venture Fund · The Nord Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Pinnacle Gardens Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc

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 Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers?

    Find your warmest path to Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $659k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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