Ohio · Private foundation
Kretz Family 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.
- $18k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $762k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Kretz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 13 | $18k | 54% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $15k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $27k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $16k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $16k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $17k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $17k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of the Wayside Inc | $24,365 | 8 | 0% |
| Achievement Centers for Children | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $10,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Books for Collier Kids Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Village Project | $5,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Blessing House | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Strongsville Rotary Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| The Metanoia Project | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Malachi House Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of the Wayside Inc | $24,365 | 8 | 0% |
| Achievement Centers for Children | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $10,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Books for Collier Kids Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Village Project | $5,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Blessing House | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Strongsville Rotary Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| The Metanoia Project | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Malachi House Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Camp Good Days and Special Times Inc | $1,549 | 3 | 0% |
| Christ Child Society of Cleveland | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Urban Community School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Animal Protective League | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Matthews House Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth Haven Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels Cleveland West | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oh-Go | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Kyle Jean-Baptiste Foundation Inc | $227 | 1 | 1% |
| Dean Paras Foundation Inc | $200 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kretz Family 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.
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How this is measured
About Kretz Family Foundation
- How much does Kretz Family Foundation give?
- Kretz Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $17,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kretz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (52%), Human Services (14%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Kretz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Our Lady of the Wayside Inc ($24k), Achievement Centers for Children ($12k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($10k).
- Does Kretz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kretz Family 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 Kretz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Community West Foundation, Akron Community Foundation.
- Where is Kretz Family Foundation based?
- Kretz Family Foundation is based in OH.
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