Ohio · Private foundation
Connor Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 52
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $41M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Connor Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $2.1M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $1.7M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $1.4M | 12% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $1.3M | 36% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $1.2M | 46% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $1.2M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc | $4,053,800 | 4 | 6% |
| Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park | $561,500 | 7 | 11% |
| Two Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique | $510,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Church of the Resurrection | $425,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $417,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $127,440 | 7 | 0% |
| Providence House Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Saint Martin de Porres High School | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Cleveland | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Uss Cleveland Legacy Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Connor Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · Sullivan Family Fund
How this is measured
About Connor Foundation
- How much does Connor Foundation give?
- Connor Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,157,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 52 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Connor Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Health (21%), Philanthropy (18%).
- Who are Connor Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc ($4.1M), Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park ($562k), Two Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique ($510k).
- Does Connor Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Connor Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Connor Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation.
- Where is Connor Foundation based?
- Connor Foundation is based in OH.
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