Ohio · Private foundation
B Charles and Jay G Ames 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.
- $716k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $140,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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 | 36 | $716k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $721k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $938k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $791k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $663k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $613k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $508k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $500k | 45% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $1,583,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Hope Ignites Cincinnati | $926,672 | 8 | 10% |
| Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center | $365,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | $182,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Open Doors Inc | $162,656 | 3 | 3% |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $128,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hathaway Brown School | $104,550 | 9 | 0% |
| The John's Island Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $70,238 | 4 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget B Charles and Jay G Ames 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 · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Connor Foundation · Sullivan Family Fund · John P Murphy Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · The Catherine L & Edward a Lozick Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland
How this is measured
Compare B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation with peer funders
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About B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation
- How much does B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation give?
- B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $715,686 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Youth Development (20%), Education (17%).
- Who are B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cleveland Museum of Natural History ($1.6M), Hope Ignites Cincinnati ($927k), Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center ($366k).
- Does B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does B Charles and Jay G Ames 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 B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation, The Lozick Family Foundation.
- Where is B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation based?
- B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation is based in OH.
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