Ohio · Private foundation
Crofton Cares 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.
- $796k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,137
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $515,441
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 17
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Crofton Cares Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 | 19 | $763k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $810k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $652k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $335k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $327k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $622k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $160k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Tampa Incorporated | $1,988,904 | 7 | 0% |
| United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Cleveland Inc | $259,800 | 6 | 2% |
| Florida Holocaust Museum Inc | $251,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Starting Right Now | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New York University | $56,868 | 3 | 0% |
| National Council of Jewish Women - Cleveland | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Resource Cleveland | $23,400 | 3 | 0% |
| The Chiselers Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($515k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Crofton Cares Inc 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: The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Hudson Community Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Crofton Cares Inc
- How much does Crofton Cares Inc give?
- Crofton Cares Inc reported 20 grants totaling $796,036 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Crofton Cares Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (63%), Health (13%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Crofton Cares Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The University of Tampa Incorporated ($2.0M), United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Cleveland Inc ($260k), Florida Holocaust Museum Inc ($251k).
- Does Crofton Cares Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Crofton Cares 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 Crofton Cares Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation.
- Where is Crofton Cares Inc based?
- Crofton Cares Inc is based in OH.
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