Ohio · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE
COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,000 to it, the largest being SAUERLAND FOUNDATION ($126,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $299k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $235k
What Community Life Collaborative does
Mission
The clc is organized and operated for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. More specifically, it is dedicated to furthering efforts in support of social justice and environmental sustainability, while promoting collaborations and partnerships with like-minded organizations. The clc has two primary goals: establish a collaborative of nonprofits working together to create social and environmental change and promote sustainable living practices and climate change action across the northeast ohio region in an effort to connect the community and protect the environment. Community Life Collaborative (clc) mission statement: to engage communities in social and environmental justice by empowering untapped relationships, collaborations and understandings across boundaries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
2024 programming 1.climate fresk: climate fresk is a gamified workshop about how everything is connected in the climate crisis. The workshop empowered participants with an understanding and language to be able to speak to nuanced issues, and empowered them to build a foundation to move a community towards action. Led by megan yousef, an aptd-certified facilitator with a background rooted in change management. 2.our nature (part 1): getting our hands dirty: participants got their hands dirty in the urban gardens of east cleveland and worked side-by-side with volunteers working at the first saturday volunteer cleanup. This is the first of the two-part workshop with sara continenza and beth vild tackling food injustice and how we, as a community, can advance health equity. 3.our nature (part 2): the second part of the series highlighted two thriving vacant-to-vibrant models for mobilizing local food & garden ambassadors for neighborhood resilience in cleveland and akron neighborhoods. Presented by sara continenza and beth vild, this event wraps up our nature forum series. 4.3rd annual gala, dancing on dew drops: our 3rd annual garden gala celebrated with a sold out crowd featuring…
$192,484 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $192,484.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $232k to $360k (+55%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $51k → $26k.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE’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
COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 85% · 2023 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
72% of COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE is better cushioned than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE?
- COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,000 to it, the largest being SAUERLAND FOUNDATION ($126,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $247,000 in grants to COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE?
- SAUERLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $126,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY LIFE COLLABORATIVE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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