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The Center for Community Solutions

THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS provides various support services to individuals and organizations throughout northeast ohio.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$1.3MCivil Rights$459kCrime & Legal$436kPublic Benefit$318kHuman Services$208kArts & Culture$94kYouth Development$60kEmployment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $15,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $50,940 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,940 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.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$5,000
THE OHIO POVERTY LAW CENTER$5,000
THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND$5,000
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 (FY17–23, $291k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK: $10k → 15%NUEVA LUZ URBAN RESOURCE CENTER: $40k → 17%Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center: $20k → 17%NUEVA LUZ URBAN RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 17%NUEVA LUZ URBAN RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 17%NUEVA LUZ URBAN RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 17%BRENDA GLASS MULTIPURPOSE TRAUMA: $15k → 17%Centers for Families and Children: $27k → 17%CARE ALLIANCE HEALTH CENTER: $59k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $13k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $13k → 17%GINN FOUNDATION: $25k → 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 23 repeat orgs$658k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
30

Total granted

$2.4M
$653k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+52%

Still filing today

91%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CH
    Circle Health Services
    6× · 2017–2023 · $400k · revenue +617%
  • LG
    LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER
    7× · 2017–2023 · $269k · revenue +186%
  • TM
    THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $165k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +65%
  • FI
    FAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue -66%
  • FI
    FAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE
    one grant, 2020 · $65k

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
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
2
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
3
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center

The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.

Health
4
Community Aids NetworkAkron Pride Initi

The organization's mission is to prevent further transmission of HIV through education and risk reduction efforts and to provide housing assistance and other supportive services to people already affected by HIV.

Human Services
5
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
6
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
7
The Columbus Partnership

Economic development: investigation and study of various areas of need for the development of plans and programs to be undertaken and the creation of strategies and programming to begin executing the same.

Community Improvement
8
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
9
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
10
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
11
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Inc

Advocate for and effect systemic change to ensure justice and equity for all ohioans.

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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 Healthcare Access Worldwide 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%22%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr18%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%9%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr16%31%35–55yr18%30%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/55
the rest of the field
13%
4,799/37,782

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

44 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. 44 of the 55 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $300,000 · Civil RightsOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTE…LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $269,405 · Civil RightsLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGEN…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIO…Equality Ohio Education Fund — $38,190 · Civil RightsOHIOANS TO STOP EXECUTIONS — $37,500 · Civil RightsASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS — $30,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $5,000 · Civil RightsCircle Health Services — $400,000 · OtherCircle Health ServicesFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE — $65,000 · OtherFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFENATIONAL NETWORK FOR JUSTICE — $42,500 · OtherFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC — $65,000 · OtherFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INCPROJECT LIFT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES — $50,000 · OtherPROJECT LIFT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SER…TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $50,000 · OtherTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC+19 more — $256,548 · Other+19 moreURSULINE PIAZZA — $230,677 · HealthURSULINE PIAZZATHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $165,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATI…UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $70,311 · HealthUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEA…PRETERM CLEVELAND INC — $50,000 · HealthPRETERM CLEVELAND INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GR…MINISTRY OF HOPE — $40,000 · HealthMINISTRY OF HOPE+3 more — $47,678 · Health+3 moreNUEVA LUZ URBAN RESOURCE CENTER — $80,000 · Human ServicesNUEVA LUZ …UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY…CARE ALLIANCE — $59,022 · Human ServicesCARE ALLIA…The Centers for Families and Children — $27,245 · Human ServicesThe Center…GINN FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesGINN FOUND…BRENDA GLASS MULTI PURPOSE CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesVINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK — $10,000 · Human ServicesWe Think 4 a Change — $138,000 · Community ImprovementOHIO FAMILIES UNITE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY — $8,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND — $112,381 · EducationGrassroots Power Project — $21,000 · EducationLEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY — $10,000 · EducationOHIO VOICE — $68,500 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $10,000 · Public Benefit
Civil Rights$780,095Other$929,048Health$653,666Human Services$291,267Community Improvement$146,000Education$143,381Public Benefit$78,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCircle Health Services — $400,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $300,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $269,405 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetURSULINE PIAZZA — $230,677 over 7y, 28% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $165,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWe Think 4 a Change — $138,000 over 4y, 52% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND — $112,381 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNUEVA LUZ URBAN RESOURCE CENTER — $80,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $70,311 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO VOICE — $68,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC — $65,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCARE ALLIANCE — $59,022 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRETERM CLEVELAND INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT LIFT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES — $50,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK FOR JUSTICE — $42,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetMINISTRY OF HOPE — $40,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund — $38,190 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOHIOANS TO STOP EXECUTIONS — $37,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children — $27,245 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGINN FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY — $24,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO — $23,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGrassroots Power Project — $21,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHRIVE FOR CHANGE — $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRENDA GLASS MULTI PURPOSE CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEquitas Health Inc — $12,012 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPPLEWOOD CENTERS INC — $10,370 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetORIANA HOUSE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAROON ARTS GROUP — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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…Greater Cleveland Nei…Ohio VoiceThe Char and Chuck Fo…Jewish Federation of …Women's Fund of Centr…Higley Fund of the Cl…Mt Sinai Health Care …NEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundSaint Lukes Foundatio…
The Cleveland FoundationOH41.6× affinity20 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 · Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers · Ohio Voice · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Women's Fund of Central Ohio · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio

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 The Center for Community Solutions 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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.

    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 55 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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