Ohio · Nonprofit
GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $874,184 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($240,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $874k
- Net assets
- $236k
What Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation does
Mission
To promote the increase of media production in Northeast Ohio using effective strategies for attraction and workforce development including building an artistic infrastructure through film, achieve increased economic development in Northeast Ohio by using the artistic and culturally enriching activities of film and other media production to strengthen the workforce, support the media production industry and attract media production to the region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Greater Cleveland Film Commission (GCFC) is the only 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to driving economic development and job creation by cultivating a robust film and television industry in Northeast Ohio. From 2009 to 2020, media projects in Ohio generated over $1.1 billion in economic impact and created 6,192 full-time equivalent jobs. GCFC's work drives a large percentage of Ohio's film tax incentive spending and job creation to Greater Cleveland. In 2024, GCFC booked six productions in NE Ohio with total combined budgets of $77.8 Million to film in Northeast Ohio. Productions hired 2,926 crew, 2,570 Background Actors, & 406 Vendors. They also booked almost 31,000 hotel room nights with $4.5 million in hotel room night spending in 2024. COMPLETED NE WHAT WE DO * Advocate for public policy that drives production spending and hiring to Northeast Ohio * Actively pursue media production business by building relationships with producers and production studios * Provide a one-stop-shop supporting local, national and international filmmakers * Connect producers directly to local cast, crew, and vendors * Develop and host workforce training programs (Production Assistant Workshops,…
$788,629 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $788,629.
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 2021 to 2022, from $520k to $1.1M (+109%).
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: 2017 58% · 2018 44% · 2019 60% · 2020 66% · 2021 72% · 2022 57% · 2023 67% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $85k → $43k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $236k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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
GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 39% · 2019 56% · 2020 66% · 2021 54% · 2022 55% · 2023 53% — 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 GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
94% of GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k 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.
Against its field
GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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 GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $874,184 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($240,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $874,184 in grants to GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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