Ohio · Nonprofit
SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND
SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,915,750 to it, the largest being GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION ($2,915,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundationlocal
- The Conway Family Foundationportfolio 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.
89% of SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2.0M → $337k.
From the IRS filings of SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundationlocalportfolio matchOH · funds 80 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Higley Fund of the Cleveland FoundationlocalOH · funds 126 organizations near you
- The Conway Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disanto Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shoes and Clothes for KidslocalOH · funds 140 organizations near you
- Jumpstart Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The O'Neill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jobsohioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gries Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University Hospitals Health System Inc Group Returnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William O & Gertrude L Frohring Fdn Importfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Good Community 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 SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND
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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Greater Cleveland Sports Commission · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND: 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 SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND?
- SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,915,750 to it, the largest being GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION ($2,915,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,915,750 in grants to SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND?
- GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $2,915,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPORTS EVENT DEVELOPMENT FUND 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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing