How much did UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND grant in FY2025?

UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND reported 18 grants totaling $2,479,916 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND based?

UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND is based in OH.

UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND

To make an impact in the community by tapping into its collective ability to provide immediate relief for basic human needs and working across sectors, systems, and neighborhoods to prevent and eliminate the root causes of these needs and disparities in the first place.

$2.5M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$175k

Largest

01What you fund

0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$14MPhilanthropy$8.6MHealth$4.2MFood & Nutrition$2.7MEducation$2.3MCommunity Improvement$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.9MEmployment$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MOther$15M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

ensuremetrohealthuncfchildreneducationvitalityundergraduate

2020

childreneducationlivesadvocacyyouthnortheastcare

2021

childreneducationyouthlivesadvocacynortheastadults

2022

economic mobilityhealth pathwayshousing stabilityjewish

2023

economic mobilityhealth pathwayshousing stabilityjewish

2025

economic mobilityhealth pathwayshousing stability

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$125,000

Median grant

States reached

$41M

Total assets

Largest grants

LUTHERAN METROPOLITIAN MINISTRY$175,000
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY$175,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND$150,000
ASIA SERVICES IN ACTION INC$150,000
LEXINGTON BELL COMMUNITY CENTER$150,000
HUNGER NETWORK$140,000
RAVENWOOD HEALTH$125,000
PASSAGES INC$125,000
CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER$125,000
AXESSPOINTE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$100,000
BLACK CHILD DEVEOPMENT INSTITUTE OHIO$100,000
YWCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND$100,000
CLEVELAND CENTERS FOR ARTS & TECH$100,000
FOOD STRONG$100,000
MILESTONE AUTISM RESOURCES$100,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $13.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$50M · 85 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

85 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$50M

$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

-3%

Still filing today

94%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $525k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

CC
Catholic Charities Services Corp
6× · 2018–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +19%
UB
United Black Fund-Gr Cleveland
6× · 2018–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +293% · 69% of their budget
CF
CLEVELAND FOODBANK
2× · 2018–2019 · $2.2M · revenue +32%

Funded once

CA
CARE ALLIANCE
one grant, 2018 · $296k · revenue -15%
AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS GR CLEVE CHAPTER
one grant, 2018 · $234k
UNITED WAY OF AMERICA
one grant, 2018 · $213k · revenue -59%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services

Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement

United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy

Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education

United Way of North Central

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter

Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

To serve the community by providing services to individuals and families with barriers to health care.

Health

Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services

Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stages of life.

Human Services

Greater Columbus Chamber of

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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Tessie Cleveland Community Services Corporation

Our mission is to provide stellar and innovative human services that enhance the quality of life.

Health

Engage Cleveland Inc

Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater Cleveland.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Service Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Baldwin Wallace University. 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 48 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/123

the rest of the field

11%

1,109/9,695

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.

05the grantee network

111 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

106/111

Grantees still filing

76/111

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$13,703,512Other$19,653,424Philanthropy$8,600,240Health$4,216,181Food & Nutrition$2,660,125Education$2,260,987Community Improvement$1,979,174

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.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH137.7× affinity85 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · The Abington Foundation · Shoes and Clothes for Kids · The Reinberger 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 organisation UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: United Black Fund-Gr Cleveland.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 341366892 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on United Black Fund-Gr Cleveland, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 69% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Greater Cleveland?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Greater Cleveland through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

111 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Greater Cleveland?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

111 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Greater Cleveland?

More from the funding graph