Ohio · Public charity
United Way of Greater Cleveland
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ("uwgc or the organization") is a not-for-profit corporation located in cleveland, ohio. Uwgc serves as an essential community connector, generating and coordinating resources across individual donors, corporations, service providers and government and civic leaders to improve lives and create community…
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 90
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations United Way of Greater Cleveland funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $2.2M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $3.1M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $3.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $3.5M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 71 | $4.4M | 3% |
| FY2020 | 75 | $4.9M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 81 | $12M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 90 | $14M | 2% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities Corporation | $6,232,092 | 8 | 2% |
| United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc | $4,080,996 | 8 | 69% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $3,248,384 | 3 | 1% |
| The Centers for Families and Children | $2,293,956 | 5 | 2% |
| Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry | $1,445,435 | 6 | 4% |
| Child Care Resource Center of Cuyahoga County | $1,428,062 | 7 | 3% |
| Journey Center for Safety and Healing | $1,373,709 | 7 | 7% |
| The Cleveland Play House | $1,368,942 | 3 | 6% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland | $1,331,543 | 5 | 10% |
| Chn Housing Partners | $1,289,008 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 135 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Greater Cleveland supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 117 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Shoes and Clothes for Kids · Treu Mart Fund
How this is measured
About United Way of Greater Cleveland
- How much does United Way of Greater Cleveland give?
- United Way of Greater Cleveland reported 18 itemized grants totaling $2,215,000, out of $2,479,916 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 90 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Greater Cleveland fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Philanthropy (16%), Health (11%).
- Who are United Way of Greater Cleveland's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Charities Corporation ($6.2M), United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc ($4.1M), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($3.2M).
- Does United Way of Greater Cleveland fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Greater Cleveland?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation.
- Where is United Way of Greater Cleveland based?
- United Way of Greater Cleveland is based in OH.
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