Ohio · Public charity
Cleveland Browns Foundation
The CLEVELAND BROWNS FOUNDATION is dedicated to taking a solution-based, holistic approach to ensure youth in ohio and beyond receive the development and education they need as a foundation for independence and success.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $818k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 43
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Cleveland Browns Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 | 11 | $803k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $349k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $363k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $522k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $1.1M | 65% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $695k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $777k | 42% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $873k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuyahoga County Office of Early Childhood | $690,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Shoes and Clothes for Kids | $641,966 | 6 | 4% |
| Battelle Education | $500,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Cleveland Metropolitan School District | $381,023 | 6 | n/a |
| East Cleveland School District | $329,850 | 4 | n/a |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Akron Public Schools | $185,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Cleveland Muny Football Association | $167,267 | 5 | n/a |
| The Centers for Families and Children | $165,033 | 4 | 0% |
| Maple Heights City School Distrist | $155,595 | 5 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuyahoga County Office of Early Childhood | $690,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Shoes and Clothes for Kids | $641,966 | 6 | 4% |
| Battelle Education | $500,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Cleveland Metropolitan School District | $381,023 | 6 | n/a |
| East Cleveland School District | $329,850 | 4 | n/a |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Akron Public Schools | $185,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Cleveland Muny Football Association | $167,267 | 5 | n/a |
| The Centers for Families and Children | $165,033 | 4 | 0% |
| Maple Heights City School Distrist | $155,595 | 5 | n/a |
| University Hospitals Health System Inc | $150,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of Ginn Academy Corporation | $145,000 | 3 | 52% |
| Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | $135,000 | 3 | 2% |
| College Now Greater Cleveland Inc | $133,216 | 6 | 0% |
| Canton City Schools | $93,200 | 5 | n/a |
| Achievement Centers for Children | $87,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Digitalc | $82,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Lorain City Schools | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Youth Football Inc Dba Cleveland Muny Sports Association | $65,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of the Ginn Academy | $65,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University Hospitals Health System Inc | $56,860 | 3 | 0% |
| Cleveland College Preparatory School | $52,176 | 2 | 1% |
| Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute | $48,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Legends-Dos Equi | $44,343 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Cleveland Football Coaches Association | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Cleveland Police Foundation | $40,000 | 1 | 13% |
| USO (United Service Organizations) of Northern Ohio | $35,961 | 2 | 6% |
| Children's Hunger Alliance | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Citizens for Our Children's Future | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rcx Sports LLC | $28,695 | 2 | n/a |
| Impressions Printing | $26,412 | 2 | n/a |
| Keepers Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Rainbow Babies & Children's Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Zodiac Holdings LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mobilemed1 Inc Dba Medworks | $21,550 | 1 | 2% |
| Long Beach Education Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Legal Aid Society of Cleveland | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Build the Bridge Inc | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Journey Center for Safety and Healing | $17,388 | 2 | 0% |
| Ohio High School Football Coaches A | $15,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Special Olympics Ohio Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Akron Public Schools | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jessie Rees Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bpa Charitable Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Community Initiatives | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| East 88th Street Browns Youth Organization | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lorain City Schools Association of Classified Employees | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cybr LLC | $9,600 | 1 | n/a |
| The Sparkle Effect | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lifeact | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Berea City School District | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Garfield Heights City School District | $7,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Caldwell Exempted Village School District | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Xenith | $5,010 | 1 | n/a |
| OhioGuidestone | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Lindy Infante Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Urban League of Greater Cleveland | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Epilepsy Foundation of America | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Providence House Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Gloria Redwine Foudation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jarvis Landry Building Winners Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls of Truth Christ Honor and Acceptance | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dr Maya Angelou Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Diabetes Association | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jack McGovern Coats Disease Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| KultureCity | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Littlest Heroes Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Philanthropy Ohio | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cleveland Browns Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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 George Gund Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Shoes and Clothes for Kids · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cleveland Browns Foundation
- How much does Cleveland Browns Foundation give?
- Cleveland Browns Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $818,490, out of $2,620,491 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cleveland Browns Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (52%), Human Services (14%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
- Who are Cleveland Browns Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cuyahoga County Office of Early Childhood ($690k), Shoes and Clothes for Kids ($642k), Battelle Education ($500k).
- Does Cleveland Browns Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cleveland Browns Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Reinberger Foundation.
- Where is Cleveland Browns Foundation based?
- Cleveland Browns Foundation is based in OH.
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