· Public charity
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc
Provide funding and technical assistance to small and minority disadvantage businesses.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $125,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $240,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $114,100 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k16 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Eliza Bryant Village | $15,000 |
| Pregnant with Possibilities | $10,000 |
| Western Reserve Historical | $8,500 |
| Phoebe Foundation | $7,000 |
| Cleveland Baptist Association | $6,500 |
| David's Challenge | $6,100 |
| Renounce Denounce | $6,100 |
| University Settlement | $6,100 |
| Friends of Breakthrough School | $6,100 |
| Cleveland Treatment Center | $6,100 |
| Leading Ladies | $6,100 |
| Mumford | $6,100 |
| Greater Cleveland Veterans Resource | $6,100 |
| John Carroll University | $6,100 |
| By Leaps and Bounds | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- WRWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY4× · 2017–2020 · $39k · revenue +73%
- IIDEASTREAM3× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +14%
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $21k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- JCJordan Community Residential Centergraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue ×11
- GCGOLDEN CIPHERSone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -46%
- DCDIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIOone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -21%
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.
Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…
The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
Strives to permanently break the cycle of poverty for philadelphia families
Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.
Inspired by its heritage since 1906, matrix human services advocates for and services the most vulnerable in the metropolitan detroit community and empowers individiuals and families to enhance the quality of their lives and achieve self…
We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.
Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…
Bcs partners with people to overcome obstacles on their pathway toward self-determination (see schedule o).
Jefferson-puritas is committed to maintaining and enhancing the full diversity of its residental, commercial and industrial communities and providing the planning necessary to ensure the vitality of the neighborhood into the future.
Gesher human services is a bridge to hope and opportunity for people at work, at home, and in the community. gesher's workforce development, behavioral health, and inclusion programming serves all metro detroiters while meeting the needs…
Open doors academy (oda) provides year-round out-of-school time academic and enrichment programs to youth living in underserved communities. oda is based in cleveland, ohio and operates programs in northeast and northwest ohio. oda…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scranton Road Ministries Cdc and the most unlike its peers is Jarvis Gibson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 42 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 WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ELIZA BRYANT VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON ROAD MINISTRIES CDC ↗
- Who funds DAVIDS CHALLENGE INCORPORATED YOUND ACHIEVERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BPA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Henry Johnson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MUM FORD INC ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF DRUG ABUSE CLEVELAND TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKER SHARKS SWIMMING TEAM ↗
- Who funds Jordan Community Residential Center ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CIPHERS ↗
- Who funds DIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE PHEBE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCCALL CONSULTING & ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds Renounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program Corporation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds VERGE INC ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds DUFFY LITURGICAL DANCE ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds JARVIS GIBSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MOUNT PLEASANT NOW DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONSORTIUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Edwin D Northrup II Fund · East 66th Street Services Inc · The Abington Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation
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 United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc 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.