Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers
Cleveland, OH · EIN 34-0714688. Reported 76 grants totalling $1,525,800 to 58 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S220) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 14% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 18% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $13,250. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $110,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Justice and Policy Center | Cincinnati, OH | $209,300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ohio Voice | Columbus, OH | $138,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tap Foundation | Arlington, VA | $101,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Ohio Organzing Collaborative | Youngstown, OH | $82,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation Inc | Cleveland, OH | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| ACLU | Cleveland, OH | $52,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Policy Matters Ohio | Cleveland, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ohioans to Stop Executions | Columbus, OH | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fair Elections Center | Washington, DC | $35,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Peace Development Fund Inc | Amherst, MA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Promise of Democracy Foundation Inc | Cleveland, OH | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry | Cleveland, OH | $23,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Midtown Cleveland | Cleveland, OH | $23,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Avanzamos Unidos | Cleveland, OH | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless | Cleveland, OH | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Council on American-Islamic Relations - Ohio | Hilliard, OH | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Greater Cleveland Congregations | Cleveland, OH | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality Inc | Dayton, OH | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Organization of Chinese Americans Inc | Cleveland, OH | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bail Project Inc | Venice, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Freedom Righteous Organizing Collaborative | Akron, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harm Reduction Ohio | Columbus, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Healing Broken Circles Inc | Columbus, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Heartbeat Movement Inc | Girard, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Juvenile Justice Coalition | Groveport, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates Inc | Lakewood, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Oriana House Inc | Akron, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Racial Justice Now | Silver Spring, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vincentian Ohio Action Network | Columbus, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Writers in Residence | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Towards Employment Incorporated | Cleveland, OH | $19,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Renounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund Inc | Atlanta, GA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Land Cle | Cleveland, OH | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alpha Omega Foundation Inc | Cleveland, OH | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Death Penalty Action | Columbus, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Cleveland Delta Foundation Life Development Center Inc | Cleveland, OH | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Smart Development Inc | Cleveland, OH | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| M-Pac Cleveland | Cleveland, OH | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| YG2D | San Francisco, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Birthing Beautiful Communities | Cleveland, OH | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Environmental Leaders Association | Solon, OH | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Concerned Citizens Organized Against Lead | Cleveland, OH | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eyej | Cleveland, OH | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| See You at the Top Inc | Cleveland, OH | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | Moreland Hls, OH | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kings & Queens of Art | Cleveland, OH | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asian Services in Action Inc | Akron, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bellaire-Puritas Development Corp | Cleveland, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community of Faith Assembly | Cleveland, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Delta Sigma Theta Sorority | Beachwood, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| March on Maryland Inc | Severna Park, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Martha and Tonya Johnson Legacy Project | Cleveland, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center | Cleveland, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohio Womens Alliance | Columbus, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cleveland Owns | Cleveland, OH | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tremont West Development Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
17 of 58 (29%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 49 of 58 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 25 | $253,800 | $8,000 |
| 2022 | 11 | $317,500 | $8,500 |
| 2023 | 40 | $954,500 | $19,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
84% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $13,250 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 40 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1814 E 40TH Street Ste Ste 4D, Cleveland, OH, 44103.
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