Ohio · Private foundation
Cardinal Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $164k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,333
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Cardinal Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 20 | $164k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $118k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $174k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $72k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $112k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $114k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $113k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Carroll University | $147,413 | 7 | 0% |
| Lake Erie College | $100,400 | 3 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $58,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hiram College | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shaker Schools Foundation | $15,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Life Is Good No Matter What | $10,000 | 1 | 66% |
| Cincinnati Museum Association | $9,250 | 5 | 0% |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $7,333 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($445k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cardinal Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Brandon Family Foundation · Susan & John Turben Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Cardinal Charitable Foundation
- How much does Cardinal Charitable Foundation give?
- Cardinal Charitable Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $164,231 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Cardinal Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (34%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Cardinal Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: John Carroll University ($147k), Lake Erie College ($100k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($58k).
- Does Cardinal Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cardinal Charitable 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 Cardinal Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Brandon Family Foundation, Susan & John Turben Foundation.
- Where is Cardinal Charitable Foundation based?
- Cardinal Charitable Foundation is based in OH.
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