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CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC

CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,956 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY ($102,456). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$180k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$105k
Net assets
$0
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Cleveland Emergency Shelter Inc does

Mission

Operation of a homeless shelter.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided emergency shelter facilities and basic necessities to indigent persons in bradley county, tn.

    $180,447 spentof which $180,447 as grants$180,447 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $180,447.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($249k) Expenses 100 ($249k) Net assets 100 ($321)2018 Revenue 69 ($171k) Expenses 69 ($171k) Net assets 100 ($321)2019 Revenue 73 ($182k) Expenses 73 ($182k) Net assets 100 ($321)2020 Revenue 88 ($220k) Expenses 88 ($220k) Net assets 100 ($321)2021 Revenue 258 ($644k) Expenses 259 ($644k) Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 264 ($658k) Expenses 264 ($658k) Net assets 0 ($0)2023 Revenue 73 ($182k) Expenses 73 ($182k) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 72 ($180k) Expenses 72 ($180k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (72)Expenses (72)Net assets (0)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $113k to $41k (−64%).

$19k
$41k
$22k
$70k
$111k
$113k
$41k
$68k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 51% · 2018 33% · 2020 53% · 2021 97% · 2022 92% · 2023 92% · 2024 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,334 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’17
$0
’18
$0
’19
$0
’20
−$321
’21
$0
’22
$0
’23
$0
’24
2.7
months of
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

Demetrius Ramsey

Executive director

Board chair

Howard Thompson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820202021202220232024
Listed16161616161621
Joined·+0·+1+0+0+12
No longer listed·0·1007
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $16k → $17k.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $306k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of the Ocoee Region). These are real filings, and they are not money CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC raised.

From the IRS filings of CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC’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 EMERGENCY SHELTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

100% 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 EMERGENCY SHELTER INC.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · above the median
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC

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In Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC?
CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,956 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY ($102,456). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $104,956 in grants to CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $102,456 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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