Illinois · Nonprofit
CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION
CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,009,020 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($9,001,900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION has grown faster than half of the 9,089 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Robert R McCormick Foundationshared funderslocal
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- John P Murphy Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $8.0M.
From the IRS filings of CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Robert R McCormick Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 87 organizations that share your funders · funds 426 organizations near you
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John P Murphy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leonetticarlson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catanzarite Family Foundation - IVportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Good Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Anna Greenfield Charitable Fndportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lerner Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION?
- CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,009,020 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($9,001,900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,009,020 in grants to CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $9,001,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing