Ohio · Nonprofit
AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND
AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,797,903 to it, the largest being THIRD FEDERAL FOUNDATION ($680,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $710k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $917k
What America Scores Cleveland does
Mission
America Scores Cleveland inspires urban youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Core soccer programming for grades 3-5 poet-athletes (students from partnering cleveland schools) meet with their soccer coaches for soccer practices and games during afterschool hours two days per week for 22 weeks of the school year, utilizing the america scores soccer curriculum. This curriculum emphasizes character-building skills such as leadership, teamwork and commitment, daily lessons end with discussion promoting healthy behaviors, self-esteem, goal setting and school stewardship. Poet-athletes play games between america scores schools at school sites and other community locations once per week. Program years begin and end with community soccer events. During fy25, 366 students in grades 3-5 participated in the program throughout the 22 weeks of which 73% were returning students from fall to spring. 86% of participants improved on the pacer test in the number of shuttles run from their pre- to post-assessment. 98% of caregivers agreed that their child spends more time physically active since being part of the scores program
$158,804 spent28% of program spendingCore writing programming for grades 3-5 poet-athletes (students from partnering cleveland schools) meet with their writing coaches for creative writing workshops during afterschool hours two days per week for 22 weeks of the school year. In the fall, poet-athletes are engaged in the "power of poetry" curriculum. The fall season ends with a poetry slam. The spring writing curriculum, "writing for the community", focuses on service-learning, where poet-athletes select a community issue and then work as a team to implement a service project. The spring season ends with a presentation of team-led community projects. During fy25, 366 students in grades 3-5 participated in the program throughout the 22 weeks. 79% of participants maintained or showed improved on their writing assessment, 91% of coaches surveyed, agreed that participants in the program showed improvement in their language arts skills; 93% of participants agreed that the scores program helped them become comfortable and confident when speaking in front of groups of people; 92% of caregivers/parents agreed that because of the scores program their child's academic performance improved since joining america scores.
$151,978 spent27% of program spendingAdditional programming additional programming in fy25 included a junior program for grades 1-2 at 12 schools and a middle school program for grades 6-8, offered in 5 schools and in partnership with 5 city of cleveland recreation and resource centers. Practices ranged from 60 to 120 minutes and were held two to four days per week, with an equal focus on soccer and literacy programming. 261 students participated in jr. Scores for at least one day of programming, with 93% improving or maintaining their scores on dolch sight word pre- and post-assessments. Additionally, 138 middle school students participated in the spring session, with 100% reporting that the scores program boosted their confidence, and 88% of caregivers agreed that their child spent more time reading or writing after joining the program. Summer programming spanned five to eight weeks in collaboration with community partners and organizations, cmsd summer schools, and the city of cleveland recreation centers. Additionally scores held clinics, winter sessions, and partnered in many city wide events scores served an additional 1,103 youth in grades 1-8 through its additional programs. Overall, america scores engaged…
$261,995 spent$56,463 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $572,777.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $507k to $655k (+29%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 16% · 2022 13% · 2023 14% · 2024 16% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Christian Trudell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $139k → $224k.
8 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
29% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 51% · 2019 47% · 2020 37% · 2021 32% · 2022 35% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
56% of AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND?
- AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,797,903 to it, the largest being THIRD FEDERAL FOUNDATION ($680,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,797,903 in grants to AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND?
- THIRD FEDERAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $680,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing