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Avery Dennison 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.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
67
Grants FY2025
56
Organizations funded FY2024
54%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,207,000
Organizations funded a year
35 to 64
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
18
Total assets, FY2025
$26M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Avery Dennison Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $950k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving61$3.2M51%
FY202456$1.4M54%
FY202360$2.6M67%
FY202264$3.5M59%
FY202149$1.7M65%
FY202037$451k73%
FY201941$478k68%
FY201835$316k60%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$17MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MPhilanthropy$886kCommunity Improvement$874kEducation$619kArts & Culture$556kHuman Services$470kCivil Rights$456kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Lake County Inc$753,419418%
United States Fund for Unicef$683,00030%
Hola Ohio$620,000431%
United Nations Foundation Inc$500,00020%
Global Fund for Children$450,00022%
Ideoorg$445,00021%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$422,43050%
Women Win Foundation Inc$380,00022%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$250,00010%
United Way Inc$209,70050%
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All grantees of Avery Dennison Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Lake County Inc$753,419418%
United States Fund for Unicef$683,00030%
Hola Ohio$620,000431%
United Nations Foundation Inc$500,00020%
Global Fund for Children$450,00022%
Ideoorg$445,00021%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$422,43050%
Women Win Foundation Inc$380,00022%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$250,00010%
United Way Inc$209,70050%
Avina Americas Inc$200,00010%
Action Against Hunger - USA$200,00020%
Islamic Relief USA$200,00010%
Union Station Homeless Services$159,50030%
Global Forest Generation$150,00014%
Scholarship America Inc$140,3003n/a
Asheville GreenWorks$107,000213%
Save The Children Federation Inc$100,00010%
Textile Exchange$100,0001n/a
Rainforest Alliance Inc$100,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$100,00010%
Hunar Foundation Incorporated$100,000131%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$100,00010%
Building Markets Ltd$100,00012%
Painesville Cty Local Sch Educational Fd$88,000313%
Impact Hub Trust$87,50014%
Lake-Geauga Habitat for Humanity Inc$75,00042%
Surge for Water Inc$75,00015%
Backpack Beginnings$61,00061%
Cambodian Childrens Fund$50,00010%
Lemons of Love Inc$50,00061%
Room to Read$50,00010%
Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio$50,00013%
Westlake Chinese Culture Association$47,000527%
Baltimore Outreach Services Inc$46,00071%
Dancing Dreams$40,00052%
Cleveland Contemporary Chinese$37,00049%
Plexus Education Foundation Inc$35,00038%
Colors Plus$30,00035%
OneSky$30,00010%
Deepwood Foundation$28,00041%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$27,54040%
Lone Star Wheelers$27,0003n/a
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center$25,00011%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$25,00010%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$25,00020%
Lgbtq Lake County$25,000216%
Hannah's Treasure Chest$23,00021%
The Sub Zero Mission$23,00042%
Meals on Wheels of Northwest Indiana Inc$22,00050%
Ecumenical Shelter Network of Lake County Inc$22,00041%
The Haven Home LLC$22,00015%
L a Chinatown Firecracker Run Committee Inc$20,00022%
Drink Local Drink Tap Inc$20,00022%
YWCA of Glendale and Pasadena$20,00040%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Denton County Inc$20,00020%
PFLAG Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Inc$20,0002n/a
Michelles Love$20,00033%
Hispanic Heritage Foundation$20,00011%
Meals on Wheels of Hancock County Inc$20,0001n/a
Providence House Inc$20,00020%
Share-A-Vision Co Inc$20,000319%
Water Is Life Kenya$20,00021%
Bogg Ministries Inc$20,00011%
Inner-City Arts$20,00020%
Teach Democracy$19,25040%
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals$19,00042%
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights$17,50020%
Alcott Center for Mental Health Services$17,00020%
Embrace Waiting Children Inc$17,00022%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$16,00030%
Quakertown Food Pantry$16,00032%
Midwest Food Bank Nfp$16,00030%
Leadership Lake County Inc$15,00015%
Hispanic Scholarship Fund$15,00010%
Women in Manufacturing Association$15,00011%
Lekotek of Georgia Inc$15,00012%
Volunteers of America Inc$15,0003n/a
United Negro College Fund Inc$15,00010%
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute$13,00020%
Brigid's Path Inc$13,00020%
Clinton County Women's Center Inc$13,00021%
House of Bread$13,00020%
Manna Food Bank Inc$13,00020%
The Recing Crew$10,00011%
Towards Employment Inc$10,00010%
Brilliant Cities$10,00010%
American Legion Post No 102$10,0001n/a
Babe Whitley County Inc$10,00013%
McKinley Community Outreach Center$10,00018%
Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster - a Nonprofit Educational$10,00010%
Beyond the Badge Foundation$10,0001n/a
Resource Center of Dallas Inc$10,00010%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Habitat for Humanity of Ottawa County Inc$10,00012%
Step Up Women's Network$10,00010%
Chair-Ity$10,0001n/a
Diy Girls$10,00021%
San Francisco CASA$10,00010%
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc$10,00010%
Veteran's Freedom Fleet Mission$10,0001n/a
Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer Inc$10,00010%
Cleveland Council of Black Colleges Alumni Association Inc$10,0001n/a
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$10,00010%
Whip Pediatric Cancer Inc$10,00017%
Next Wave Ministries Inc$10,0001n/a
One Step at a Time Lake County$10,0001n/a
Paralyzed Veterans of America Buckeye Chapter Inc$10,00013%
Dress for Success Cleveland$10,00014%
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$10,00010%
Wings Program Inc$10,00010%
Serve Source$10,00013%
Lock Haven University Foundation$10,00010%
There With Care$10,00010%
The YESS Institute$10,00011%
College Axis Project Inc$10,00019%
Riverview Industries Inc$10,00010%
Little Annies Hope Train$10,0001n/a
Cleveland Kids' Book Bank$10,00011%
Dress for Success Columbus$10,00021%
Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc$10,00010%
Miami Valley Meals Inc$10,0001n/a
Hvaf of Indiana Inc$10,00010%
Catholic Charities Corporation$10,00010%
Changing Footprints Inc$10,000113%
Project Ropa$10,00011%
Clinton County SPCA$10,00012%
Asheville Humane Society Inc$10,00010%
Digitunity Inc$10,00010%
Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals$10,00010%
Carbon County Friends of Animals$10,00014%
YWCA Dayton$10,00010%
Womensafe Inc$10,00010%
Refugee Care Collective Northwest$10,00011%
St Francis High School of la Canada Flintridge$10,0002n/a
Big Sunday$10,00020%
Oregon Food Bank$9,00030%
Veteran Impact Services Inc$7,00012%
Connecting for Kids of Westlake Oh$7,00013%
Wings of Eagles Discovery Center$7,00014%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Memphis$7,00010%
Hope House Rescue Mission Inc$7,00011%
Mother and Child Alliance$7,00010%
Doty Island Development Council Inc$7,0001n/a
Miracle League of Lake County$7,00016%
The Call$7,00010%
Positively Empowering and Restoring Ladies Self- Esteem Inc$7,0001n/a
A Giving Spirit Foundation Inc$7,000114%
Penn-York Valley Project Grow$6,0002n/a
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children$6,00020%
Hannahs Home$6,00021%
Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc$6,00020%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$5,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$5,00010%
Operation Service Inc$5,000110%
Community Partners$5,00010%
Los Angeles Unified School District$5,0001n/a
St Francis High School$5,0001n/a
Hope Abides$5,0001n/a
Council on Foundations Inc$4,60010%
Southern California Grantmakers$3,85010%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Nw Indiana$3,00010%
Greensboro Urban Ministry$3,00010%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio Inc$3,00010%
Fort Wayne Rescue Mission Ministries Inc$3,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$3,00010%
Operation Be Kind$3,00016%
The Lower East Side Girls Club of New York Inc$3,00010%
Honor Flight Northeast Indiana Inc$3,00010%
Ashtabula County Community Action Agency$3,00010%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$3,00010%
The Animal Haven Inc$3,00011%
Laurel School$3,00010%
Ravenwood Mental Health Center Inc$3,00010%
Helping Hands of Dayton$3,0001n/a
Children's Heart Foundation$3,00010%
Footprints Center for Autism$3,0001n/a
National Council of Jewish Women - Cleveland$3,00010%
Madison Food Center$3,0001n/a
Eliza Bryant Village$3,00010%
The Fine Arts Association$3,00010%
Geneva Area Interfaith Food Pantry$3,0001n/a
Valor Clinic Foundation$3,0001n/a
City Mission$3,0001n/a
A Special Wish Foundation Cleveland Chapter$3,00010%
Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central Ohio$3,00010%
Children's Miracle Network$3,00010%
Shoes That Fit$3,00010%
Kylees Kare Kits for Kidz Inc$3,00013%
Meadowlands Area YMCA$3,00010%
Suit Yourself Inc$3,0001n/a
Mid-South Food Bank$3,00010%
Young Innovators Society$3,0001n/a
Beyond Bedtime Inc$3,00010%
Room to Grow National Inc$3,00010%
Pants Off Racing$3,0001n/a
Autism Unbound$3,00016%
Good Shepherd Shelter of Los Angeles$3,00010%
Youth Focus Inc$3,0001n/a
RSVP of Allen County Inc$3,0001n/a
Quakertown Band of Quakertown$3,00017%
Coro Southern California Inc$2,50010%
The Plus Me Project$2,50010%
Plaza Comunitaria Sinaloa$2,00011%
Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Bay Area Women Leader Network$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Avery Dennison Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 173 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Lake County Inc: $753,419 over 4y, 18% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $683,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHola Ohio: $620,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetUnited Nations Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGlobal Fund for Children: $450,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetIdeoorg: $445,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $422,430 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWomen Win Foundation Inc: $380,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $209,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAvina Americas Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAction Against Hunger - USA: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIslamic Relief USA: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnion Station Homeless Services: $159,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGlobal Forest Generation: $150,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAsheville GreenWorks: $107,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Alliance Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHunar Foundation Incorporated: $100,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding Markets Ltd: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPainesville Cty Local Sch Educational Fd: $88,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetImpact Hub Trust: $87,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLake-Geauga Habitat for Humanity Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSurge for Water Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBackpack Beginnings: $61,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLemons of Love Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetRoom to Read: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDiversity Center of Northeast Ohio: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWestlake Chinese Culture Association: $47,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetBaltimore Outreach Services Inc: $46,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetDancing Dreams: $40,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCleveland Contemporary Chinese: $37,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetPlexus Education Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetColors Plus: $30,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetOneSky: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDeepwood Foundation: $28,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,540 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCradles to Crayons Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLgbtq Lake County: $25,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHannah's Treasure Chest: $23,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Sub Zero Mission: $23,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Northwest Indiana Inc: $22,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEcumenical Shelter Network of Lake County Inc: $22,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 173.

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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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH38× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Avery Dennison Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Avery Dennison Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Avery Dennison Foundation

How much does Avery Dennison Foundation give?
Avery Dennison Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $4,700,416 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Avery Dennison Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (72%), Public Safety & Disaster (5%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are Avery Dennison Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Lake County Inc ($753k), United States Fund for Unicef ($683k), Hola Ohio ($620k).
Does Avery Dennison Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Avery Dennison 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 Avery Dennison Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Swagelok Foundation.
Where is Avery Dennison Foundation based?
Avery Dennison Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 292 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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