Ohio · Private foundation
Bicknell Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $312k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Bicknell Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 27 | $307k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $285k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $334k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $359k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $309k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $290k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $285k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $185,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Cleveland Zoological Society | $143,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Archbold Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $90,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $75,500 | 2 | 0% |
| True Freedom Enterprises | $70,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Team Rubicon Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio | $58,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Cleveland | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($416k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bicknell Fund 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 Reinberger Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Swagelok Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn
How this is measured
About Bicknell Fund
- How much does Bicknell Fund give?
- Bicknell Fund reported 28 grants totaling $312,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bicknell Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (14%), Arts & Culture (14%), Education (12%).
- Who are Bicknell Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($186k), Cleveland Zoological Society ($143k), Archbold Foundation Inc ($100k).
- Does Bicknell Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bicknell Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bicknell Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Reinberger Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
- Where is Bicknell Fund based?
- Bicknell Fund is based in OH.
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