Ohio · Private foundation
Fairfax Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 89%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $34,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 89% of the organizations Fairfax Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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 | 26 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $4.6M | 89% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $77k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $70k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $73k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $64k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $67k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $103k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Community School | $824,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Hathaway Brown School | $815,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Urban Squash Cleveland | $782,500 | 6 | 65% |
| University School | $750,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Trees Water and People | $477,581 | 8 | 9% |
| Our Family Services Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Huntington's Disease Society of America Inc | $225,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $107,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Community Foundations of Canada | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Kiva Center | $100,000 | 2 | 14% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($822k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fairfax Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Fairfax Foundation
- How much does Fairfax Foundation give?
- Fairfax Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,179,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fairfax Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Youth Development (16%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are Fairfax Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Urban Community School ($824k), Hathaway Brown School ($815k), Urban Squash Cleveland ($783k).
- Does Fairfax Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fairfax Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fairfax Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Fairfax Foundation based?
- Fairfax Foundation is based in OH.
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