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Harvard Business School Club of Cleveland at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $241,310, the rows itemized in this filing. The $249,235 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,925 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.
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB$41,810
JUNIOR ACHIEVIEMENT OF GENERAL OH$25,000
YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$25,000
EDGE POWERED BY MAGNET$25,000
PRESIDENTS COUNCIL FDN$25,000
SEEDS OF LITERACY$20,000
YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE$15,000
FOOD STRONG$15,000
AMERICAN EXPRESS FOUNDATION$14,500
FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.

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

+98%
+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
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

  • 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%
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
Entrepreneurship Education Consortium Inc

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

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College Now Greater Cleveland Inc; 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 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. 16 of the 21 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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…Burton D Morgan Found…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Harvard Business School Club of Cleveland funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harvard Business School Club of Cleveland. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 10% 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, 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.

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 21 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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