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Harvard Business School Club of Cleveland

Providing scholarships; furthering business education; promoting educational meeetings

$249k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$42k
Largest
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 FY20202024.

Education$516kEmployment$145kYouth Development$145kHuman Services$105kCommunity Improvement$90kFood & Nutrition$50kInternational$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $241,310 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $249,235 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,925 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.

$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB$41,810
PRESIDENTS COUNCIL FDN$25,000
YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVIEMENT OF GENERAL OH$25,000
EDGE POWERED BY MAGNET$25,000
SEEDS OF LITERACY$20,000
FOOD STRONG$15,000
YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE$15,000
AMERICAN EXPRESS FOUNDATION$14,500
FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS$10,000
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 (FY21–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%EDWINS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $20k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $20k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$595k · 11 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$595k
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+57%

Still filing today

73%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

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

  • YO
    YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +22%
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +136%
  • CN
    COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • EF
    EDWINS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +57%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CULINARY LAUNCH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0%

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
Entrepreneurship Education Consortium Inc

To cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, create practical experiences, and connect students to opportunities that advance them personally and professionally.

2
Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization

Premier entrepreneurship network which informs, supports, and inspires college students to be entrepreneurial and seek opportunity through enterprise creation. The organization, through more than 200 college and university chapters,…

Education
3
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
4
Consortium of African American Organizations

To utilize the resources of northeast ohio african americans professional organizatiaons to promote economic in afri-amer community and to enhance career & entreprenerial opportunities for afri-amer

Public Benefit
5
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
6
Cleveland Entrepreneurship Prep

The Prep Schools mission is to seek to provide a high quality, academically rigorous education for the college bound scholar. We empower our scholars to think critically, assume social responsibility, and serve for themselves and the…

7
Global Learning Accelerator
Education
8
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
9
Young Global Leadership Foundation

Global education programs

10
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

11
Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio

Junior achievement of north central ohio is part of the world's largest organization dedicated to preparing young people with the skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to drive economic mobility and opportunity. through hands-on learning…

International
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College Now Greater Cleveland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Workroom Program Alliance. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College — $328,717 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $70,000 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INCWORKROOM PROGRAM ALLIANCE — $60,000 · EducationWORKROOM PROGRAM ALLIANCEFRIENDS OF GINN ACADEMY CORPORATION — $23,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $20,000 · EducationYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED — $85,000 · OtherYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITEDTHE ENTREPRENEURS EDGE — $65,000 · OtherTHE ENTREPRENEURS EDGEFOOD STRONG — $50,175 · OtherFOOD STRONGNOTRE DAME COLLEGE — $45,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME COLLEGEYOUNG ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE — $30,000 · OtherYOUNG ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTEFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $29,700 · OtherFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLSCLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS — $20,000 · OtherCLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIR…AMERICAN EXPRESS FOUNDATION — $14,500 · OtherJunior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc — $75,000 · InternationalJunior Ach…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS — $10,000 · InternationalCLEVELAND …SEEDS OF LITERACY — $55,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF L…EDWINS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesEDWINS FOU…YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLEVELAND CULINARY LAUNCH INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementPRESIDENTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Employment
Education$501,717Other$339,375International$110,000Human Services$105,000Youth Development$40,000Community Improvement$25,000Employment$25,000

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $328,717 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED — $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc — $75,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ENTREPRENEURS EDGE — $65,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWORKROOM PROGRAM ALLIANCE — $60,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY — $55,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEDWINS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE — $40,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND CULINARY LAUNCH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetPRESIDENTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN EXPRESS FOUNDATION — $14,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 FoundationOH14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Harvard Business School Club of 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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, FY2025

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 21 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.

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