Illinois · Private foundation
Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education
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.
- $266k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $195,838
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 6 | $266k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $165k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $2.7M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $263k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $6.5M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $244k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purdue Research Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Apostolic Church of God | $195,838 | 1 | n/a |
| Braven Inc | $190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Onegoal | $150,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Partnership for College Completion | $145,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Kids First Chicago for Education | $135,000 | 7 | 1% |
| City Year Inc | $100,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Project Syncere | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Surge Institute | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education 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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Vivo Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · The Osa Foundation · Square One Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education with peer funders
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About Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education
- How much does Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education give?
- Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education reported 6 grants totaling $265,838 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (9%), Education (8%), Youth Development (3%).
- Who are Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Purdue Research Foundation ($1.0M), Apostolic Church of God ($196k), Braven Inc ($190k).
- Does Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education 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 Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education based?
- Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education is based in IL.
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