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CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $786,554 to it, the largest being CS Foundation Inc ($538,432). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.2M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$787k
Net assets
$12M
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Cleveland State Community College Foundation does

Mission

To provide income for distribution in the form of tuition, scholarships and awards for educational purposes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Tuition, scholarships, awards, and special allocations

    $1,487,838 spentof which $573,905 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,487,838.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2018 Revenue 94 ($2.6M) Expenses 105 ($1.2M) Net assets 114 ($11M)2019 Revenue 65 ($1.8M) Expenses 89 ($1.0M) Net assets 121 ($12M)2020 Revenue 40 ($1.1M) Expenses 87 ($975k) Net assets 121 ($12M)2021 Revenue 66 ($1.8M) Expenses 351 ($3.9M) Net assets 111 ($11M)2022 Revenue 52 ($1.4M) Expenses 111 ($1.3M) Net assets 95 ($9.5M)2023 Revenue 44 ($1.2M) Expenses 113 ($1.3M) Net assets 99 ($10M)2024 Revenue 46 ($1.3M) Expenses 87 ($984k) Net assets 109 ($11M)2025 Revenue 77 ($2.2M) Expenses 152 ($1.7M) Net assets 115 ($12M)
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Revenue (77)Expenses (152)Net assets (115)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $9.5M (−15%).

$10M
$12M
$12M
$12M
$11M
$9.5M
$10M
$11M
$12M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
’17
$1.5M
’18
$810k
’19
$138k
’20
−$2.1M
’21
$194k
’22
−$44k
’23
$311k
’24
$458k
’25
6.0
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.

Board chair

Jonathan Cantrell

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121212121215141110
Joined·+1+0+0+0+9+6+6+0
No longer listed·10006791
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $84k → $39k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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 STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

26% 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 STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

68%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 85% · 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 56% — 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

40% of CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.

TN
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’22
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 8%Fundraising 5%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

63%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $786,554 to it, the largest being CS Foundation Inc ($538,432). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $786,554 in grants to CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
CS Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $538,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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