Ohio · Nonprofit
FLATS FORWARD
FLATS FORWARD (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $297,225 to it, the largest being DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE ($297,225). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FLATS FORWARD has grown faster than half of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Neighborhood Progress Inclocalportfolio match
- East 66th Street Services Inclocalportfolio match
- Equity in the Arts Fundlocalportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of FLATS FORWARD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $59k → $98k.
From the IRS filings of FLATS FORWARD’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FLATS FORWARD'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.
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.
- Neighborhood Progress Inclocalportfolio matchOH · funds 67 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- East 66th Street Services Inclocalportfolio matchOH · funds 68 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Equity in the Arts Fundlocalportfolio matchOH · funds 38 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohiolocalportfolio matchOH · funds 164 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Higley Fund of the Cleveland FoundationlocalOH · funds 126 organizations near you
- Shoes and Clothes for KidslocalOH · funds 140 organizations near you
- Brown Chls & Hln Memorial F Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Good Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The George Gund Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deaconess Foundationportfolio 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 FLATS FORWARD
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 FLATS FORWARD: 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 FLATS FORWARD?
- FLATS FORWARD (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $297,225 to it, the largest being DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE ($297,225). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLATS FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $297,225 in grants to FLATS FORWARD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLATS FORWARD?
- DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $297,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLATS FORWARD 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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