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THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION

THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 368 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,673,101 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($48,491,397). 191 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$9.7B
Funders on record
368
Grants received
$214M
Net assets
$8.8B
191/368 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Cleveland Clinic Foundation does

Mission

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $7,624,932,615 spentof which $141,164,972 as grants$8,115,749,217 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,624,932,615.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.0B) Expenses 100 ($5.6B) Net assets 100 ($5.4B)2018 Revenue 105 ($6.3B) Expenses 105 ($5.9B) Net assets 101 ($5.4B)2019 Revenue 114 ($6.8B) Expenses 112 ($6.2B) Net assets 116 ($6.3B)2020 Revenue 118 ($7.0B) Expenses 114 ($6.3B) Net assets 131 ($7.1B)2021 Revenue 135 ($8.1B) Expenses 123 ($6.9B) Net assets 158 ($8.5B)2022 Revenue 127 ($7.6B) Expenses 137 ($7.7B) Net assets 151 ($8.1B)2023 Revenue 150 ($9.0B) Expenses 153 ($8.5B) Net assets 154 ($8.3B)2024 Revenue 162 ($9.7B) Expenses 169 ($9.4B) Net assets 163 ($8.8B)
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Revenue (162)Expenses (169)Net assets (163)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $13.7B to $15.5B (+13%).

$10.9B
$11.0B
$12.4B
$13.7B
$15.5B
$15.4B
$15.9B
$17.4B
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 6% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$391M
’17
$371M
’18
$598M
’19
$693M
’20
$1.2B
’21
−$88M
’22
$440M
’23
$246M
’24
1.6
months of
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.

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Listed3752555454585451
Joined·+25+9+11+12+15+13+19
No longer listed·1061212111722
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 79 funders to 139 funders, grant income rose $18M → $29M.

68 of 368 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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: $86M from 73 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jobsohio); $500k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Cleveland Clinic Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 368 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 CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

98% 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 THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION.

23%
largest funder
33%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 31% · 2019 14% · 2020 13% · 2021 27% · 2022 18% · 2023 13% — 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

40% of THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 31 states in all.

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99M arriving through sponsors registered in 27 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Government funding THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $117.5M on record.

Federal$117.5M
grants $111.7Mcontracts $5.8M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$84.9M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$19.3M
  • National Science Foundation$5.3M
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$4.1M
  • Department of the Interior$2.7M
  • Department of State$812k

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 THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

22
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

52%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 20 states

NH
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
KY
MD
NM
KS
TN
SC
LA
MS
GA
FL

Part of a family of 98 related entities

  • Akron General Medical Center Outpatient Pharmacy LLC · disregarded
  • Ccf Ambulatory Surgery Centers LLC · disregarded
  • Ccf Hotel Services LLC · disregarded
  • Cleveland Clinic Concierge Medicine LLC · disregarded
  • Cleveland Clinic Florida Concierge Medicine LLC · disregarded

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: 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 CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION?
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 368 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,673,101 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($48,491,397). 191 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 368 organizations giving $213,673,101 in grants to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION, 191 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $48,491,397 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION 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 368 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