Ohio · Nonprofit
Spanish American Committee
Spanish American Committee (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,140,045 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ($884,234). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Spanish American Committee does
Mission
Mission: The Spanish American Committees mission is act and serve as a gateway to socioeconomic success for individuals and families in Northeast Ohio while maintaining and celebrating a Latino perspective and focus to all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Little Footsteps Early Childhood Enrichment Center: The Spanish American Committee Early Childhood Enrichment Center was the first bilingual day care in the State of Ohio and remains the only one in Cuyahoga County. The center offers early education and services to children as young as six-weeks (6 weeks) old to 8 years old. The Center provides a diverse bilingual and multicultural curriculum. The center is fully licensed and State certified as well as currently has 3-star and is seeking to obtain 5-stars in 2021.
$592,789 spent40% of program spendingFamilies First Program: A variety of social services are offered by our licensed social worker and case manager currently at the agency. Our Social worker and case manager aid clients in an array of services such as: applying for public assistance, including SNAP Benefits, social security, HEAP/PIPP, and similar programs, referrals to shelters in cases of homelessness or domestic violence instances, county childcare voucher application assistance, an on-site domestic violence counselor, help with job applications, document translation, immigration clinic every Wednesday, as well as getting connected to the Cleveland Furniture Bank and other partnering agencies who aid us in accepting referrals. In addition to the social services provided, under families first the agency offers employment and training services as well. This includes: job referral, job preparation counseling, job readiness training, and a job bank/job service.
$521,098 spent35% of program spendingMi Casa Housing Program: As a HUD certified Housing Counseling Agency, our certified Housing Counselor and Financial Literacy Advisor provide case management services in the areas of First Time Homebuyers, Mortgage Default and Delinquency (Foreclosure Prevention), Financial Literacy (Consumer Education), and Tenant Landlord mediation. Our Housing Counseling Program is also an affiliate member of UnidosUS. The agencies housing program works to build partnerships with the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to ensure renters can find available rental units, report any cases of discrimination or cases of scams, identity theft and credit problems, as well as with other housing agencies such as CHN Housing Partners and EDEN.
$212,596 spent14% of program spendingIn addition, we help with resumes, hold bi-weekly job fairs with roughly 10-13 different companies looking for employees, Spanish-language GED program, English Classes, NCLEX Examination Preparatory Classes, and the Latino Construction Program that began in 2018.
$157,146 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,483,629.
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 $1.2M to $1.7M (+39%).
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 23% · 2018 34% · 2019 52% · 2020 51% · 2021 41% · 2022 37% · 2023 33% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Spanish American Committee’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. 0 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.
Chief executive
Ramonita Vargas
Executive Director
Board chair
Angel Rodriguez
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $92k → $876k.
5 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Spanish American Committee’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
Spanish American Committee has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 Spanish American Committee.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 37% · 2019 52% · 2020 38% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 27% — 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
47% of Spanish American Committee's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
81% of Spanish American Committee's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $537k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Spanish American Committee runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Spanish American Committee
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 Spanish American Committee: 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 Spanish American Committee?
- Spanish American Committee (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,140,045 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ($884,234). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Spanish American Committee have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,140,045 in grants to Spanish American Committee, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Spanish American Committee?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND is the largest funder on record, with $884,234 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Spanish American Committee 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 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