· Private foundation
The College Club of Cleveland Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE NOW | $33,000 |
| CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LORAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of The College Club of Cleveland Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 81%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +24%
- LCLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +188%
John Carroll University3× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CFCLEVELAND FOUNDATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF SAY YESone grant, 2019 · $200k
- BWBaldwin Wallace Universityone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +11%
- UOUNIVERCITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AID COORDINATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The College Club of Cleveland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The College Club of Cleveland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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