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FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO
FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,757,145 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($10,094,666). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio does
Mission
The fund for our economic future is a creative space for philanthropic funders and civic leaders to explore what matters and implement what works to achieve equitable economic growth, emphasizing systemic, long-term change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule othe fund's strategy is to advance economic growth and equitable access to opportunity for the people of northeast ohio by articulating and advancing a regional agenda, empowering a leadership network and developing strategic funding to organizations which show the greatest potential for advancing growth and opportunity within the 18-county northeast ohio region.the focus is on four charitable priorities:- job creation (add jobs, combat community deterioration).- job preparation (skill building for employment, improvements in the quality of jobs).- job access (reducing geographic barriers between people and jobs by bringing jobs closer to people and people closer to jobs).- systemic racial inclusion (add jobs, connect people to jobs, eliminate neighborhood tension).
$2,428,561 spentof which $789,362 as grants$60,107 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,428,561.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $7.4M to $10M (+40%).
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 8% · 2023 69% · 2024 76% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Bethia Cullis Burke
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $3.8M → $1.6M.
6 of 32 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: $1.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cleveland Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO raised.
From the IRS filings of FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 66%; 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: 2017 73% · 2018 53% · 2019 51% · 2020 46% · 2021 62% · 2022 32% · 2023 35% — 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
63% of FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.
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
85% of FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO has grown faster than half of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Commerce$500k
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 FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO: 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 FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO?
- FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,757,145 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($10,094,666). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $19,757,145 in grants to FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,094,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO 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 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing