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COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC

COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC (Ohio) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,382,888 to it, the largest being The George Gund Foundation ($6,491,400). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$39M
Revenue FY2025
132
Funders on record
$28M
Grants received
$30M
Net assets
94/132 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

Against its field

COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve4.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2018 Revenue 104 ($13M) Expenses 96 ($12M) Net assets 106 ($16M)2019 Revenue 116 ($14M) Expenses 108 ($13M) Net assets 110 ($17M)2020 Revenue 136 ($17M) Expenses 130 ($16M) Net assets 108 ($17M)2021 Revenue 150 ($18M) Expenses 136 ($17M) Net assets 128 ($20M)2022 Revenue 200 ($25M) Expenses 170 ($21M) Net assets 136 ($21M)2023 Revenue 225 ($28M) Expenses 185 ($23M) Net assets 166 ($25M)2024 Revenue 224 ($28M) Expenses 212 ($26M) Net assets 182 ($28M)2025 Revenue 314 ($39M) Expenses 295 ($37M) Net assets 199 ($30M)
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Revenue (314)Expenses (295)Net assets (199)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 27% · 2018 26% · 2019 30% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 21% · 2024 23% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

61% of COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$175k
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$768k
18
$730k
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$489k
20
$1.4M
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$3.4M
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$4.5M
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$1.2M
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$1.8M
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4.8
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 66 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $5.8M.

17 of 132 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)6% 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: $23M from 15 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cleveland Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC raised.

From the IRS filings of COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 132 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

COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

23%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 42% · 2019 42% · 2020 23% · 2021 28% · 2022 16% · 2023 39%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

55% of COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

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

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 132 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.2M on record.

Federal$17.2M
grants $17.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$16.4M
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$811k

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 COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 3%Fundraising 2%

Governance

47
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: 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.

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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 COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC?
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC (Ohio) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,382,888 to it, the largest being The George Gund Foundation ($6,491,400). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC have?
IRS filings report 132 organizations giving $28,382,888 in grants to COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC, 94 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC?
The George Gund Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,491,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 132funders 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