Ohio · Private foundation
Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $55,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $508,064
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $2.2M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $2.5M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $2.2M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $2.6M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $4.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Cleveland | $1,401,044 | 6 | 2% |
| Yale University | $813,664 | 4 | n/a |
| Yale University | $601,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $600,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Gilmour Academy Inc | $502,609 | 2 | n/a |
| The Musical Arts Association | $500,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $250,522 | 5 | 0% |
| Vocational Guidance Services | $186,404 | 6 | 1% |
| Hopewell | $80,636 | 6 | 0% |
| New England Forestry Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Cleveland | $1,401,044 | 6 | 2% |
| Yale University | $813,664 | 4 | n/a |
| Yale University | $601,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $600,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Gilmour Academy Inc | $502,609 | 2 | n/a |
| The Musical Arts Association | $500,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $250,522 | 5 | 0% |
| Vocational Guidance Services | $186,404 | 6 | 1% |
| Hopewell | $80,636 | 6 | 0% |
| New England Forestry Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Front Exhibition Company | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University Circle Incorporated | $2,500 | 6 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Triple T Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · Bicknell Fund · B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Rig III Family Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena
How this is measured
Compare Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation with peer funders
About Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation
- How much does Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation give?
- Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,482,928 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (34%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Cleveland ($1.4M), Yale University ($814k), Yale University ($601k).
- Does Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation, Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation.
- Where is Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation based?
- Alexander and Sarah Cutler Family Foundation is based in OH.
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