Ohio · Private foundation
Dbj Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Dbj Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k 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 | 17 | $2.0M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.3M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $935k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $1.5M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $935k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $810k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $985k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc | $1,500,000 | 7 | 20% |
| Envision Children | $1,450,000 | 4 | 65% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $1,050,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Glsen Inc | $1,000,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Cleveland Rape Crisis Center | $650,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Cleveland Society for the Blind | $425,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wellbeing Action for Youth Inc | $415,000 | 2 | 37% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $325,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center at Shaker Lakes | $315,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Point Foundation | $250,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc | $1,500,000 | 7 | 20% |
| Envision Children | $1,450,000 | 4 | 65% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $1,050,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Glsen Inc | $1,000,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Cleveland Rape Crisis Center | $650,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Cleveland Society for the Blind | $425,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wellbeing Action for Youth Inc | $415,000 | 2 | 37% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $325,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center at Shaker Lakes | $315,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Point Foundation | $250,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cornucopia Inc | $200,000 | 8 | 18% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hand in Hand Parenting | $110,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Vocational Guidance Services | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Project Angel Food | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Open Hand | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gathering Place | $55,000 | 5 | n/a |
| United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Cleveland Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Open Doors Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Legal Aid Society of Cleveland | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Attica Consolidated School Corporation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City Mission | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Notre Dame College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dbj Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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 · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Reinberger Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Dbj Foundation
- How much does Dbj Foundation give?
- Dbj Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,960,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Dbj Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (26%), Health (18%).
- Who are Dbj Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc ($1.5M), Envision Children ($1.4M), The Santa Fe Opera ($1.1M).
- Does Dbj Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dbj Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dbj Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, United Way of Greater Cleveland, The Reinberger Foundation.
- Where is Dbj Foundation based?
- Dbj Foundation is based in OH.
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