Ohio · Nonprofit
Cleveland Freedom Project
Cleveland Freedom Project (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Cleveland Freedom Project runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,673 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,673 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Thomas H White Fdn Tashared fundersportfolio match
- East 66th Street Services Inclocalportfolio match
- United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inclocalportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Freedom Project’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 Freedom Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
50% 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 Freedom Project.
“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
50% of Cleveland Freedom Project'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 279 organizations that share them.
- Thomas H White Fdn Tashared fundersportfolio matchOH · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- East 66th Street Services Inclocalportfolio matchOH · funds 68 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inclocalportfolio matchOH · funds 42 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Equity in the Arts Fundlocalportfolio matchOH · funds 38 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · funds 80 organizations near you
- Board of Trustees of Woodward High Schoolportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coltman Thomas J Foundation Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Prosperity Foundation Incportfolio 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 Freedom Project
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cleveland Freedom Project: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Cleveland Freedom Project?
- Cleveland Freedom Project (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Cleveland Freedom Project have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,000 in grants to Cleveland Freedom Project.
- Who is the largest funder of Cleveland Freedom Project?
- The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cleveland Freedom Project 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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