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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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Education$7.5MYouth Development$4.2MEmployment$1.1MInternational$999kCivil Rights$997kPublic Benefit$100kHuman Services$50k
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $4,300,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,028,528 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $728,528 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.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
  • $250k+4 grants · $4.0M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%THE BLOC: $968k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 3 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
18

Total granted

$2.4M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-49%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • B1
    BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue -49%
  • KO
    Kingmakers of Oakland
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue -83%
  • INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • BI
    BRAVEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $999k · revenue +115%
  • BT
    BLACK TEACHER COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $999k · revenue -22% · 51% of their budget
  • GH
    GENERATION HOPE
    one grant, 2021 · $999k
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
Building Bridges Education

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…

Education
2
Bpe Inc

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…

Education
3
The Ingenuity Project Inc

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.

Education
4
Breakthrough Birmingham

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.

Education
5
Teach St Louis

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…

Education
6
The Urban Assembly Inc

To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.

International
7
The Young People's Project Inc

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.

Education
8
Bpe Inc

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…

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9
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
10
Fame

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…

Education
11
Inroads Inc

To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.

Education
12
The Teak Fellowship Inc

To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Education Leader Fellowship; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 28 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC: $1,100,000 · EducationBEYOND 12 EDUCATION INCKingmakers of Oakland: $1,100,000 · EducationKingmakers of OaklandMARCY LAB INC: $1,000,000 · EducationMARCY LAB INCBLACK TEACHER COLLABORATIVE: $998,835 · EducationBLACK TEACHER COLLABORATIVECALCULUS PROJECT INC: $992,053 · EducationCALCULUS PROJECT INCTechbridge Girls: $986,451 · EducationTechbridge GirlsBenola Inc: $968,036 · EducationBenola Inc+8 more: $500,000 · Education+8 moreB-360 Baltimore Inc: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentB-360 Baltimore IncBRAVEN INC: $998,835 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INCVillage Of Wisdom: $986,451 · Youth DevelopmentVillage Of Wisdom+2 more: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION HOPE: $998,835 · OtherGENERATION HOPETHE FELLOWSHIP BMEC INC: $996,815 · OtherTHE FELLOWSHIP …+1 more: $50,000 · OtherThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $986,451 · EmploymentINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EmploymentTHE BLOC: $968,036 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesGIVE MERIT INC: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$7,645,375Youth Development$3,135,286Other$2,045,650Employment$1,136,451Human Services$1,018,036Crime & Legal$50,000

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 budgetBEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC: $1,100,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetKingmakers of Oakland: $1,100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMARCY LAB INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $998,835 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBLACK TEACHER COLLABORATIVE: $998,835 over 1y, 51% of budgetTHE FELLOWSHIP BMEC INC: $996,815 over 1y, 21% of budgetThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $986,451 over 1y, 20% of budgetVillage Of Wisdom: $986,451 over 1y, 26% of budgetTechbridge Girls: $986,451 over 1y, 20% of budgetINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCODED BY: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSURGE INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetACADEMY OF HOPE ADULT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSCHOOL BOARD PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRESURGENCE HALL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT SYNCERE: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTennessee Educators of Color Alliance N: $50,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIVE MERIT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

Gates FoundationNew Profit IncNew Schools FundTides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Chicago Community…National Basketball A…Walton Family Foundat…Chan Zuckerberg Initi…Pwc Foundation IncWK Kellogg FoundationEducation Leaders of …
Gates FoundationWA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · New Profit Inc · New Schools Fund · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Basketball Association Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Education Leaders of Color Inc

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 The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Group funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Group. 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
    11report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Group?

    Find your warmest path to The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Group 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 28 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 $86k 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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