Ohio · Nonprofit
HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND
HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,883,511 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ($502,629). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland does
Mission
The mission of Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland is feeding our communities' future. The organization accomplishes this by coordinating emergency food distribution and food recovery/waste reduction/sustainability response and other nutrition related services to individuals and families throughout cuyahoga county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland is incorporated under the laws of the state of ohio as a not-for-profit corporation. The organization offers 2 two distinct yet complementary services addressing hunger relief, health and nutrition, and food waste/sustainability. Hunger relief goals are met by providing funding and technical assistance to 71 pantry and hot meal locations. In 2025, hunger centers served 640,668 individuals and nutritionally balanced meals. Of the clients served, 28% were children 18 years of age and under while 26% were seniors 60 years of age and older. The organization is designed to maximize limited resources to ensure that those who are hungry have emergency food relief and assistance.
$12,306,346 spentof which $11,846,506 as grants96% of program spendingOur environmentally friendly hunger network's food rescue program experienced continued growth throughout 2025. Food rescue recovers perfectly viable food that is destined for our waste stream and redirects this surplus food to those who face food insecurity in our community. The program utilizes the food rescue hero app technology to connect food donors to nonprofit food recipients through dedicated volunteers who pick up and deliver the food. Food rescue also continued to expand into lake, lorain, geauga, and summit counties. In 2025, we had 691 total registered volunteers and 225 active volunteers that completed 6,602 rescues, resulting in an estimated 1,482,685 pounds of food rescued, which equates to 1,235,570 meals. Rescuing this food mitigated 2,556,367 pounds of co2 from our atmosphere. Retail value of this rescued food equates to 2,649,312 note: active volunteers are defined as a volunteer who has completed 1 or more rescues in that calendar year.
$488,350 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,794,696.
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 $1.9M to $2.6M (+34%).
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 36% · 2018 36% · 2019 46% · 2020 51% · 2021 44% · 2022 58% · 2023 27% · 2024 16% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Joe Dose
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $178k → $511k.
14 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
70% 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 HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 26% · 2019 34% · 2020 30% · 2021 24% · 2022 18% · 2023 15% — 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
69% of HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
91% of HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 37 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND?
- HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,883,511 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ($502,629). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $3,883,511 in grants to HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND is the largest funder on record, with $502,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 61 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