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Shoes and Clothes for Kids

The mission of SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS is to break barriers to school attendance by providing new shoes, clothes, and school supplies for students in need.

$2.9M
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$6k
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, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$3.2MYouth Development$39kFood & Nutrition$26kCrime & Legal$23kHealth$22kHuman Services$14k
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $33,375, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,866,445 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,833,070 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.
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MURTIS TAYLOR$6,125
NEW SARDIS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH$2,500
BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH$2,500
LEXINGTON BELL COMMUNITY CENTER$2,500
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$2,500
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT$2,500
WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER$2,500
FAMICOS FOUNDATION$2,500
WILLIAM E SANDERS FAMILY CENTER$1,875
MT SINAI BAPTIST CHURCH$1,875
THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN$1,750
EAST END NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$1,250
MERRICK HOUSE$1,250
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$1,000
FRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT CORP$750
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 (FY17–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE TEACHERS DESK: $804k → 13%EAST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%FRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $8k → 17%WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $12k → 17%FRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $4k → 17%EAST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $4k → 17%EAST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $20k → 17%FRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $2k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $4k → 17%EAST END NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $1k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $3k → 17%FRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $750 → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $2k → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $1k → 17%EAST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $750 → 17%MERRICK HOUSE: $750 → 17%FRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT CORP: $750 → 17%EUCLID HILLCREST AREA FAMILY TO FAMILY: $5k → 17%EUCLID HILLCREST AREA FAMILY TO FAMILY: $1k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $4k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $4k → 17%THE CENTERS - CLEVELAND HEIGHTS: $2k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $2k → 17%THE CENTERS - CLEVELAND HEIGHTS: $1k → 17%EAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $750 → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $12k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $4k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $2k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $2k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $750 → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $9k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $2k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $888 → 17%CLEVELAND PEACEMAKERS ALLIANCE: $13k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $9k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $6k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $4k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $3k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%BEST COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $22k → 17%ST MARTIN DEPORRES: $6k → 17%ST MARTIN DEPORRES: $2k → 17%ST MARTIN DEPORRES: $2k → 17%ANOTHER CHANCE: $23k → 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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 31 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
40

Total granted

$1.6M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+17%

Still filing today

65%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UC
    URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $61k · revenue +164%
  • MH
    MERRICK HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +33%
  • FF
    FAMICOS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TEACHERS DESK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $804k · revenue +50%
  • CH
    CLEVELAND HEIGHTS-UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    6× · 2018–2024 · $93k
  • EH
    EUCLID HIGH SCHOOL
    4× · 2018–2021 · $82k
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
Cleveland College Preparatory School

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

Education
2
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
3
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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4
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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5
Ohio Collegiate Academy

Our vision is to create a culture of high expectations for behavior and academics through rigorous, research-based curricula and a focus on achievement. It is our goal that Ohio College Preparatory School scholars will attend a college…

Education
6
North Columbus Preparatory Academy

North Columbus Preparatory Academy is a public, community school. We are our own school district sponsored by the St. Aloysius Orphanage (Charter School Specialists) which provides oversight and enforces academic, fiscal, and legal…

Education
7
Nexus Academy of Cleveland

To provide opportunities for educational choice to students and families of this community. The organization is primarily engaged in providing instructional services to enrolled students in grades K-8.

Education
8
Cleveland Arts and Social Science Academy

The purposes for which the corporation was formed, as stated in its Articles of Incorporation, are to establish and run a charter school in the state of Ohio for the benefit of the children, of the community, and to engage in any other…

Education
9
Canton College Preparatory School

Our vision is to create a culture of high expectations for behavior and academics through rigorous, research-based curricula and a focus on achievement. It is our goal that Canton College Preparatory School scholars will attend a college…

Education
10
Lakeshore Intergenerational School

Lakeshore Intergenerational School is the second replicationof the award-winning Intergenerational School that opened on Cleveland 's east side in 2000. The school features a curriculum where students learn at their own pace and knowlege…

Education
11
Cleveland Municipal School District Transformation

The cleveland transformation alliance (cta) is a trusted community partner working to ensure every student is engaged in a high-quality, equitable education. the cta gives families and students the information they need to commit to their…

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Jbs Lunch and Literacy Outreach Center for Kids. 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

84 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/84
Grantees still filing
50/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $817,177 · OtherCLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICTCLEVELAND HEIGHTS-UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $93,128 · OtherEUCLID HIGH SCHOOL: $81,884 · OtherMAPLE HEIGHTS CITY SCHOOL DISTRIST: $64,315 · OtherURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $61,237 · OtherPARMA CITY SCHOOLS: $60,827 · Other+31 more: $617,921 · Other+31 moreTHE TEACHERS DESK INC: $803,672 · Human ServicesTHE TEACHERS DESK INC+15 more: $236,353 · Human Services+15 moreNORTHEAST OHIO COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $59,060 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $46,876 · EducationBEDFORD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $32,844 · EducationNoble Academy Cleveland: $26,148 · EducationCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL: $26,142 · EducationGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY: $25,969 · EducationThe Pencil Box Inc: $20,790 · EducationCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: $15,120 · Education+1 more: $5,930 · EducationMURTIS TAYLOR HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM: $83,870 · HealthPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $21,796 · HealthBeech Brook: $13,447 · HealthFAMICOS FOUNDATION: $25,883 · Housing & ShelterBURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC: $17,398 · Housing & ShelterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $21,328 · Youth DevelopmentMotivated and Empowered Inc: $16,398 · Youth DevelopmentCLEVELAND CHESED CENTER: $25,561 · Food & NutritionJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $23,492 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,796,489Human Services$1,040,025Education$258,879Health$119,113Housing & Shelter$43,281Youth Development$37,726Food & Nutrition$25,561Crime & Legal$23,492

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 budgetMURTIS TAYLOR HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM: $83,870 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $61,237 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $59,060 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $46,876 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBEDFORD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $32,844 over 7y, 28% of budgetMERRICK HOUSE: $30,702 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $27,621 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNoble Academy Cleveland: $26,148 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL: $26,142 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY: $25,969 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFAMICOS FOUNDATION: $25,883 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND CHESED CENTER: $25,561 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $24,014 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $23,492 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE OF OHIO: $22,570 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $21,796 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $21,328 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pencil Box Inc: $20,790 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $20,480 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLexington Bell Community Center: $18,991 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetEAST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $18,884 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC: $17,398 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDLY INN SETTLEMENT INC: $15,558 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND: $15,322 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $15,157 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: $15,120 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $14,732 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBeech Brook: $13,447 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $13,443 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCLEVELAND PEACEMAKERS INC: $12,822 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEAST CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10,247 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $9,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA INC: $6,225 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND: $6,166 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMART ACADEMY: $5,930 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $5,153 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTEP FORWARD: $375 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds THE TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
  • Who funds MURTIS TAYLOR HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds BEDFORD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERRICK HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds Noble Academy Cleveland ↗
  • Who funds CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FAMICOS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND CHESED CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
  • Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE OF OHIO ↗
  • Who funds BEST COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds The Pencil Box Inc ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Lexington Bell Community Center ↗
  • Who funds EAST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗

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…United Way of Greater…The George Gund Found…Medwish MedworksSaint Lukes Foundatio…Higley Fund of the Cl…Mt Sinai Health Care …The Char and Chuck Fo…Third Federal Foundat…Sisters of Charity Fo…The Cleveland Clinic …The Cleveland Clinic …
The Cleveland FoundationOH97.1× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The George Gund Foundation · Medwish Medworks · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

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 Shoes and Clothes for Kids funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shoes and Clothes for Kids. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report 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 71 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.5M 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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