Ohio · Private foundation
Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc
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.
- $487k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 29
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 | 22 | $487k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $564k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $520k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $473k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $537k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $803k | 84% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $655k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland | $456,170 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio | $445,905 | 5 | 1% |
| Cleveland Metropolitan School District | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cleveland Baseball Federation | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Baldwin Wallace University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Providence House Inc | $67,587 | 4 | 0% |
| Positive Coaching Alliance | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Breakthrough Schools | $51,905 | 1 | 1% |
| West Denison Baseball Leagues Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 44% |
| B-Buzz Baseball League | $39,000 | 5 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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: Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Hudson Community Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc
- How much does Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc give?
- Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc reported 22 grants totaling $487,063 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Youth Development (24%), Recreation & Sports (22%).
- Who are Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland ($456k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio ($446k), Cleveland Metropolitan School District ($200k).
- Does Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc 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 Guardians Charities Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, Good Sports Inc.
- Where is Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc based?
- Cleveland Guardians Charities Inc is based in OH.
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