· Public charity
The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Group
The cafe group remains steadfast in its mission to transform philanthropy and advance educational equity through love-centered, systemic change.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $4,300,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,028,528 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $728,528 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.
By grant size · FY2023
- $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| B-360 BALTIMORE INC | $1,000,000 |
| KINGMAKERS OF OAKLAND | $1,000,000 |
| BEYOND 12 | $1,000,000 |
| MARCY LAB INC | $1,000,000 |
| PROJECT SYNCERE | $50,000 |
| INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| GENERATION CITIZEN | $50,000 |
| SCHOOL BOARD PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| TENNESSEE EDUCATORS OF COLOR ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- B1BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC2× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue -49%
- KOKingmakers of Oakland2× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue -83%
INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- BIBRAVEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $999k · revenue +115%
- BTBLACK TEACHER COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2021 · $999k · revenue -22% · 51% of their budget
- GHGENERATION HOPEone grant, 2021 · $999k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Building Bridges Education (BBE) is a non-profit organization at the forefront of creating transformative, high-impact programming. BBE is committed to equity-driven initiatives that empower students to embark on journeys of…
Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…
The mission of The Ingenuity Project is to prepare and launch the next diverse generation of nationally competitive STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) leaders from Baltimore City Public Schools.
Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.
The young people's project uses math literacy work to develop the abilities of elementary through high school students to succeed in school and in life.
Bpe's mission is to drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by…
Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.
To educate, empower and embolden african american youth to become student ambassadors of today, leaders of tomorrow and stewards of their communities by providing access to college preparatory education at participating independent schools…
To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.
To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Education Leader Fellowship and the most unlike its peers is Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance N. 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 10 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 28 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kingmakers of Oakland ↗
- Who funds B-360 Baltimore Inc ↗
- Who funds MARCY LAB INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK TEACHER COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE FELLOWSHIP BMEC INC ↗
- Who funds CALCULUS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc ↗
- Who funds Village Of Wisdom ↗
- Who funds Techbridge Girls ↗
- Who funds THE BLOC ↗
- Who funds Benola Inc ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CODED BY ↗
- Who funds PROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC ↗
- Who funds SURGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF HOPE ADULT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL BOARD PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RESURGENCE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SYNCERE ↗
- Who funds Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance N ↗
- Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVE MERIT INC ↗
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.
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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 Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Group 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.
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.
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