How much does Deaconess Foundation give?

Deaconess Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $1,950,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Deaconess Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (29%), Community Improvement (24%), Education (13%).

Who are Deaconess Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth Opportunities Unlimited ($2.1M), Towards Employment Inc ($2.0M), Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio ($1.8M).

Does Deaconess Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Deaconess Foundation 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 Deaconess Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.

Where is Deaconess Foundation based?

Deaconess Foundation is based in OH.

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Deaconess Foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 41
Grants FY2025: 47
Organizations funded FY2024: 17%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $245,000
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 48; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $65M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Deaconess Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Community ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	41	$2.0M	10%
FY2024	47	$2.0M	17%
FY2023	42	$2.2M	12%
FY2022	48	$2.4M	25%
FY2021	47	$1.8M	72%
FY2020	23	$2.5M	13%
FY2019	26	$1.7M	31%
FY2018	21	$1.5M	24%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$5.1MCommunity Improvement$4.3MEducation$2.3MYouth Development$1.5MCrime & Legal$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$689kArts & Culture$518kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Youth Opportunities Unlimited	$2,051,750	9	2%
Towards Employment Inc	$1,960,433	9	5%
Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio	$1,791,500	9	16%
College Now Greater Cleveland Inc	$1,346,400	8	2%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland	$1,101,500	9	1%
Open Doors Inc	$960,000	8	6%
Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network Inc	$756,750	6	3%
The Centers for Families and Children	$728,000	7	1%
OhioGuidestone	$595,737	7	0%
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology	$518,339	5	5%

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All grantees of Deaconess Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Youth Opportunities Unlimited	$2,051,750	9	2%
Towards Employment Inc	$1,960,433	9	5%
Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio	$1,791,500	9	16%
College Now Greater Cleveland Inc	$1,346,400	8	2%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland	$1,101,500	9	1%
Open Doors Inc	$960,000	8	6%
Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network Inc	$756,750	6	3%
The Centers for Families and Children	$728,000	7	1%
OhioGuidestone	$595,737	7	0%
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology	$518,339	5	5%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland	$426,000	4	3%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation	$380,000	4	0%
Business Volunteers Unlimited	$376,500	5	5%
Neighborhood Progress Inc	$265,000	3	2%
Spanish American Committee	$235,750	5	4%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation	$204,000	3	1%
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc	$201,100	5	0%
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute	$189,000	5	2%
Family Promise of Greater Cleveland	$148,000	5	6%
Resource Cleveland	$125,000	2	1%
Smart Development Inc	$95,000	4	2%
The McGregor Foundation	$89,000	3	0%
Saint Martin de Porres High School	$87,500	2	0%
Argonaut	$85,000	2	3%
Fairfax Renaissance Development	$80,000	4	2%
Envision Excellence in STEM Education Inc	$75,000	2	3%
Cleveland Social Venture Partners	$70,000	2	10%
Cuyahoga County Public Library	$70,000	1	n/a
Near Westside MultiService Corp	$58,250	3	0%
Thea Bowman Center	$52,000	2	5%
Urban City Codes Technology and Community Resource	$50,000	1	17%
Philanthropy Ohio	$46,500	7	1%
The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland	$45,000	1	4%
Burten Bell Carr Development Inc	$43,300	2	1%
One Fair Wage Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland	$40,000	1	4%
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry	$40,000	1	0%
Jumpstart Inc	$40,000	1	0%
Esperanza Inc	$38,250	3	1%
Scranton Road Ministries CDC	$35,000	1	7%
Beat the Streets Cleveland	$35,000	1	n/a
City Mission	$34,000	2	n/a
International Student Services Association Inc	$33,000	3	n/a
The City Club of Cleveland	$28,500	3	1%
Cleveland Owns	$25,000	1	28%
Enterprise Community Partners Inc	$24,000	2	0%
Seeds of Literacy	$21,500	2	1%
The Center for Community Solutions	$21,000	2	1%
Women of Color Foundation	$21,000	1	8%
Friends of Max S Hayes Vocational High School	$20,000	1	n/a
Ohio Excels	$20,000	2	0%
Team NEO Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Funders Together to End Homelessnes	$20,000	1	1%
Young Womens Christian Association of Cleveland Ohio	$20,000	1	0%
Denison Avenue United Church of Christ	$17,500	4	n/a
Westown Community Development Corp	$17,000	1	5%
The Teaching Cleveland Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Policybridge Inc	$10,000	1	11%
Reach Success Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Midtown Cleveland Inc	$9,500	1	0%
Faith United Church of Christ	$9,250	3	n/a
Legal Works Inc	$9,000	1	5%
Church of the Redeemer	$8,750	3	n/a
University Settlement Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Jefferson-Puritas West Park CDC	$6,000	1	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio	$6,000	1	0%
Ursuline College	$5,000	1	0%
Harvard Business School Club of Northeastern Ohio	$3,500	1	5%
Cleveland Leadership Center	$850	2	0%
The Chapel Inc	$500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Deaconess Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 60.

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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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH74.9× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Third Federal Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Deaconess Foundation

How much does Deaconess Foundation give?: Deaconess Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $1,950,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Deaconess Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (29%), Community Improvement (24%), Education (13%).
Who are Deaconess Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth Opportunities Unlimited ($2.1M), Towards Employment Inc ($2.0M), Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio ($1.8M).
Does Deaconess Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Deaconess Foundation 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 Deaconess Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
Where is Deaconess Foundation based?: Deaconess Foundation is based in OH.