Ohio · Private foundation
Greenleaf Avenue 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.
- $73k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 68
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $227k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Greenleaf Avenue Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 4 | $52k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $89k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $81k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $21k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $792k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $1.0M | 2% |
| FY2019 | 68 | $2.2M | 90% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $983k | 90% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Literacy Alliance | $1,300,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Northwestern University | $1,120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $840,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Open Books Ltd | $400,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Park Synagogue | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carleton College | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | $24,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Ratner School | $23,750 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Greenleaf Avenue 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: James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · Ronald and Deborah Ratner Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Cleveland Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Samuel H & Maria Miller Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Barbara and Abraham Miller Family Foundation · The Daniel and Genevieve Ratner Foundation
How this is measured
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About Greenleaf Avenue Foundation
- How much does Greenleaf Avenue Foundation give?
- Greenleaf Avenue Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $72,788 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Greenleaf Avenue Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Greenleaf Avenue Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicago Literacy Alliance ($1.3M), Northwestern University ($1.1M), American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ($840k).
- Does Greenleaf Avenue Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Greenleaf Avenue 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 Greenleaf Avenue Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation, Ronald and Deborah Ratner Family Foundation, Jewish Federation of Cleveland.
- Where is Greenleaf Avenue Foundation based?
- Greenleaf Avenue Foundation is based in OH.
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