Ohio · Private foundation
Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler 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.
- $151k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% 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 | 14 | $151k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $115k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $56k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $98k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Partners in Mission | $160,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Resource Cleveland | $152,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Urban Community School | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Two Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kinnect | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Thea Bowman Center | $19,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Aloysius Church | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Gilmour Academy Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mobilemed1 Inc Dba Medworks | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Partners in Mission | $160,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Resource Cleveland | $152,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Urban Community School | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Two Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kinnect | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Thea Bowman Center | $19,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Aloysius Church | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Gilmour Academy Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mobilemed1 Inc Dba Medworks | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Esperanza Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Seeds of Literacy | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Church of the Epiphany | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Feed More Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation 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 · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Andrews Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Healthcomp Foundation · Deaconess Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · The Abington Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation with peer funders
About Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation
- How much does Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation give?
- Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $150,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), International (28%), Education (18%).
- Who are Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: International Partners in Mission ($160k), Resource Cleveland ($153k), Urban Community School ($60k).
- Does Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler 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 Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, The Andrews Foundation.
- Where is Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation based?
- Dudley P & Barbara K Sheffler Foundation is based in OH.
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