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Ohio Boys Town Inc

To carry on charitable and educational purposes by providing funds and contributions to individuals entities and programs that provide services support and educational opportunities for the benefit and advancement of neglected abused and at-risk boys girls adolescents and young adults in the greater Northeast Ohio area

$88k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$108kYouth Development$80kHuman Services$60kFood & Nutrition$30kEmployment$20kHealth$13kReligion$10kCivil Rights$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Youth Opportunities Unlimited$10,000
Cleveland Angels$10,000
Rahab s Ministries$10,000
Hope Ignites Northeastern Ohio$10,000
Partnership Schools Cleveland$10,000
Ben Curtis Family Foundation$10,000
St Martin de Porres High School$8,000
Effective Leadership Academy$7,500
Bessie s Angels$7,500
Urban Community School$5,000
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 (FY19–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BLESSING HOUSE: $10k → 13%Blessing House: $8k → 13%BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE NORTHEAST OHIO: $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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$346k · 11 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$346k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+223%

Still filing today

91%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BC
    BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +23%
  • EL
    EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +38%
  • YO
    YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED
    3× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • HI
    HOPE IGNITESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +327%
  • HF
    HUGS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue 0%
  • OD
    OPEN DOORS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +28%
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.

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Hope for Cleveland's Children
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2
Hope Ignites Cincinnati

Hope Ignites Cincinnati nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…

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3
Hope Ignites Baltimore Inc

Boys Hope Girls Hope nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…

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4
Community of Hope

To build lasting relationships, nurture hope, and restore dignity by creating family-like relationships for cleveland's youth. we connect young adults & young families to groups of committed volunteers from the community, using a national…

Youth Development
5
Hope Ignites Chicago

Boys Hope Girls Hope nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…

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6
University of Cleveland Preparatory School

Our mission is to prepare students for a college preparatory high school that will ensure success and graduation and acceptance into a four year college.

Education
7
Hope Ignites New Orleans

Boys Hope Girls Hope nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…

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8
Emmanuel Christian Academy

Emmanuel's mission is to provide instruction in god's word and conventional instruction that meets or exceeds state standards for all who desire a biblical foundation. to serve children who historically have been defined as at-risk of not…

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9
New Heights Youth Inc

To educate and empower promising underserved youth to be leaders, champions and student-athletes by developing the skills necessary for success in high school, college and life.

Youth Development
10
Harlem Children's Zone Inc

We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.

Human Services
11
Greater Schools

To provide students, from preschool and kindergarten through grade 8, a course of study that meets or exceeds the requirements for school accreditation in the state of ohio.

Education
12
Covenant House Michigan

Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Ignites Northeastern Ohio Inc; 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

17 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. 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherBEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATIONYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $30,000 · OtherYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITEDBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE ACADEMY PROGRAM: $30,000 · OtherBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE ACADEMY PROGRAMIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUGS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · OtherHUGS FOUNDATIONHOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC: $10,000 · OtherHOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INCST MARTIN DE PORRES: $10,000 · OtherST MARTIN DE PORRESIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS: $10,000 · OtherTRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELSEND SLAVERY NOW: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherTHE URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL PROPERTY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL…Saint Martin de Porres High School: $45,500 · EducationSaint Martin de Porres Hig…HOUSE OF CHAMPIONS: $10,000 · EducationHOUSE OF CHAMPIONSEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentEFFECTIVE LEADERSH…Bessies Angels: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBessies AngelsOPEN DOORS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPEN DOORS INCBLESSING HOUSE: $17,500 · Human ServicesHOPE IGNITES: $15,000 · Human ServicesREACHING ABOVE HOPELESSNESS & BROKENNESS MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 · ReligionPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$185,000Education$105,500Youth Development$72,500Human Services$32,500Religion$30,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL PROPERTY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $45,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $32,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE ACADEMY PROGRAM: $30,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetREACHING ABOVE HOPELESSNESS & BROKENNESS MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBessies Angels: $30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLESSING HOUSE: $17,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHOPE IGNITES: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHUGS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY CLEVELAND ANGELS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Akron Community Found…Catholic Community Fo…The Nord Family Found…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cleveland FoundationOH19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Ohio Boys Town Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio Boys Town Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Ohio Boys Town Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ohio Boys Town Inc 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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