Ohio · Nonprofit
CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS
CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,807,939 to it, the largest being GLOBAL TIES US ($1,218,664). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $619k
What Cleveland Council on World Affairs does
Mission
To inspire engagement in international affairs and world cultures through education, public dialogue, and citizen diplomacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Speaker programs to build better understanding of world affairs, global issues and u.s. Foreign policyin fiscal 2025, the council engaged with 1,260 attendees and 187 student participants through sixteen speaker forums that it organized on international affairs, global issues and u.s. Foreign policy. Speakers included leading experts from government, business, think tanks and academia. Our attendees recognized and appreciated the wide range of topics and supported the program offerings.our speaker programs foster dialogue between speakers and a wide audience from across the greater cleveland area and northeast ohio.
$198,885 spent$8,627 earned by the program17% of program spendingEducation programs for students grades 6-12 and post-secondarythe council has organized model united nations conferences for students since 1946 making ccwa's model un program one of the longest continuous programs in the u.s. Ccwa hosted five conferences and engaged 1,910 students from 58 high schools and middle schools in the region. Ccwa also hosted 27 workshops for students and teachers. Model un offers opportunities for students to experience real-life negotiations and practice their public speaking and critical thinking skills on key global issues that affect them such as international refugee response or preventing deforestation.
$360,513 spent$111,839 earned by the program30% of program spendingInternational visitor programs to build citizen diplomacy and international understandingccwa is a community-based member (cbm) with global ties u.s. And hosts exchange programs sponsored by the u.s. Department of state.as a cbm, ccwa virtually and in person hosted over 456 international exchange visitors from 110 countries through the international visitor leadership program (ivlp).ccwa was assisted in making our international visitors experience in cleveland more meaningful through the efforts of our 186 citizen diplomats (volunteers) that welcome international visitors into their homes for meals and occasional extended stays.
$515,118 spent$384,293 earned by the program43% of program spendingCcwa also offers continuing learning initiatives in the area of global education as part of its maura o'donnell-mccarthy center for global understanding. Ccwa offers a suite of programs to engage local students, educators, and young professionals in deepening their international knowledge and developing global perspectives. Program participants of all ages find ways to explore their curiosity through ccwa's global education programs which included diplomacy simulation to explore negotiation, diplomacy and conflict resolution in practice. Ccwa also distributed global competence assessments to local high school students to gauge global awareness. Our leads (leadership, exchange, and diplomacy) program, a eight-week initiative for young professionals to explore what it takes to be a leader in an increasingly globalized world, attracted 21 participants, including 9 "global ambassadors" who do a year long program.
$121,285 spent$47,250 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,195,801.
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 $1.2M to $769k (−33%).
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: 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Carina Van Vliet
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Paul Clark
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $213k → $493k.
3 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Ccwa Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS raised.
From the IRS filings of CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 61% · 2019 33% · 2020 60% · 2021 49% · 2022 44% · 2023 44% — 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
61% of CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $491k 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 COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $112k on record.
- Department of State$112k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Ccwa Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS?
- CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,807,939 to it, the largest being GLOBAL TIES US ($1,218,664). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $3,807,939 in grants to CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS?
- GLOBAL TIES US is the largest funder on record, with $1,218,664 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS 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 32 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