Ohio · Nonprofit
CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION
CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,750 to it, the largest being WALTER & OLIVIA KIEBACH FOUNDATION ($313,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $509k
- Net assets
- $88k
What Cleveland Baseball Federation does
Mission
Cbf's mission is to provide the full funding of baseball so the city cleveland youth can experience the game of baseball and to provide leadership and promite social and educational values along the way
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Administration of complete free to play baseball teams for the youth.
$63,943 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $63,943.
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.
Chief executive
John Carter
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $68k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION’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 BASEBALL FEDERATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 83% · 2021 88% · 2022 80% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
100% of CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,888 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
Organizations like CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION
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
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION: 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 BASEBALL FEDERATION?
- CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,750 to it, the largest being WALTER & OLIVIA KIEBACH FOUNDATION ($313,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $508,750 in grants to CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION?
- WALTER & OLIVIA KIEBACH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $313,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 12 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing