Ohio · Nonprofit
CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY (Ohio) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,017,025 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($5,122,462). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology does
Mission
Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. Values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. We will fight inherently inequitable systems. We will be joyful and determined in our pursuits. We will continuously listen and adapt to the needs of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transforming youth programs through career connected learningin 2024, the cleveland metropolitan school district (cmsd) discontinued all after-school programming, prompting a reevaluation of youth engagement strategies across the city. New bridge responded by transforming its youth programs for 6th-12th graders to a career connected learning (ccl) model. This bold, intentional shift better aligns our youth engagement efforts with our highly successful adult healthcare training programs and directly supports our regional healthcare sector partnership's focus on building a sustainable pipeline of future healthcare workers.defining career connected learning career connected learning integrates academic learning with hands-on career exploration. It connects students with real-world job experiences through classroom activities, simulations, site visits, mentorship, and interactive technologies. The goal is to help students understand and plan for high-demand careers while developing the skills, behaviors, and confidence to succeed in them (work-based learning and career connected learning, ns4ed, 2023).connecting youth to healthcare careersthrough this program, middle school students…
$563,518 spent$3,500 earned by the program29% of program spendingNew bridge cleveland: a bold vision for workforce development and community transformation founded in 2010, new bridge cleveland was created to break down barriers to education and employment for individuals from under-resourced communities. The vision was clear: high-quality workforce training tied directly to real jobs and long-term career success at no cost to students. Since then, new bridge has graduated over 800 students into in-demand healthcare fields, transforming not only individual lives but entire families and neighborhoods.current programs and career pathwayssince 2010, new bridge has launched 112 classes of future allied health professionals, opening doors to life-saving careers that are essential to the daily functioning of cleveland's hospital systems. Graduates are trained in high demand fields such as sterile processing, phlebotomy, and medical assisting roles that ensure the safety, accuracy, and efficiency of patient care. For many students, new bridge is more than a training program; it is a pathway to economic stability. On average, graduates experience a 65% increase in wages, dramatically improving financial conditions for themselves and their families.…
$1,003,519 spent$114,500 earned by the program52% of program spendingLaunched in august 2020 by the cuyahoga county, ohio workforce funders group (wfg), a public, private, philanthropic partnership of funders working collectively to drive systems change in workforce development, the employer-led workforce connect healthcare sector partnership (hsp) works to jointly develop strategies and solutions for hospitals' short and long-term talent needs and to improve collaboration, coordination, and impact within the education, training, and workforce ecosystem.currently, the hsp employers include all the major hospital systems, cleveland clinic, metrohealth, southwest general, and university hospitals with the intention to eventually include additional healthcare entities and employers.the hsp intermediary which facilitates, convenes, and coordinates the hsp work was initially awarded to tri-c. As of august 2022, the wfg selected new bridge, cleveland along with new growth group to serve in this role. The salus group, llc was formed to house the hsp intermediary. The collective impact of the hsp is driven to foster change in inaccurate perceptions of qualified talent and the systemic forces that contribute to the social determinants of work. The emphasis…
$311,781 spent16% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$47,606 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,926,424.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $5.3M (+92%).
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 20% · 2018 5% · 2019 14% · 2020 12% · 2021 16% · 2022 57% · 2023 46% · 2024 18% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Bethany Friedlander
President/CEO
Board chair
Mr Jason Drake
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $260k → $1.3M.
7 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 71% · 2019 79% · 2020 84% · 2021 87% · 2022 62% · 2023 45% — 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
25% of CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
72% of CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.1M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M 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.
Against its field
CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Central School of Practical Nursing Inc · exempt
- Central School of Practical Nursing Trust · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY?
- CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY (Ohio) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,017,025 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($5,122,462). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $11,017,025 in grants to CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,122,462 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY 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 41 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