Ohio · Nonprofit
THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND
THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,257,949 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($1,060,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What The City Club of Cleveland does
Mission
The City Club of Cleveland's mission is to create conversations of consequence that help democracy thrive. We do this in pursuit of our vision of strong, informed individuals and communities that prize freedom of speech and civil, civic dialogue. (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To fulfill our mission, the city club produces forums on a range of topics for a variety of audiences. The backbone of our programming is the friday forum, a lunchtime program devoted to significant national and regional concerns. We also have forums on other days, at different times and venues (when in-person), including neighborhood bars and public square in downtown cleveland and virtually for livestreaming audiences. In today's political environment, our work has become increasingly critical because communities need a forum for understanding the nuances of various issues and reforms in relation to the way we live our lives. Some of our most successful forums are (continued on schedule o) developed by member-led teams and students. Every election season, you can count on the city club to convene candidate and issue debates. All told, we produce about 100 programs every year, from small, deep dive conversations with emerging community voices to large scale events, such as the state of the city.our organization promotes and encourages diversity by welcoming speakers, members, guests of various race, culture, and orientation. We are proud to report that in recent years, we have…
$1,964,313 spent$739,851 earned by the program90% of program spendingA growing national divide is reflected in the fractures we see in communities throughout northeast ohio. When it comes to education, the barriers that divide our community are particularly destructive. The city club aims to bridge this divide through four distinct programs that serves students and the educational community: city club youth forums, student participation, the free speech essay contest, and the annual high school debate championship. Since its inception in 1997, more than 14,000 students have attended city club youth forums. Students take charge of everything in the forum, from topic selection to panel moderation and delivering introductions. These forums are executed by a (continued on schedule o) planning council of high school students who come from area high schools (both public and private) to meet monthly to select topics and invite the speakers for as many as five forums each year. Youth forums provide a unique opportunity for participants to develop effective communication skills by holding group discussions on current events and public affairs at forums, develop analytical thinking abilities by debating the topic and points of view reflected by the forum…
$224,279 spent$224,279 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,188,592.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $7.9M (+416%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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
Dan Moulthrop
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $100k → $1.1M.
13 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $3.9M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cleveland Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 58% · 2019 47% · 2020 26% · 2021 32% · 2022 34% · 2023 22% — 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
44% of THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
86% of THE CITY CLUB OF 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. $601k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND is better cushioned than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The City Club Forum Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: 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 THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND?
- THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,257,949 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($1,060,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $4,257,949 in grants to THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,060,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CITY CLUB OF 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 57 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