How much does Kulas Foundation give?

Kulas Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $1,933,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Kulas Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Education (23%), Health (6%).

Who are Kulas Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Musical Arts Association ($2.0M), Cleveland Institute of Music ($1.4M), Case Western Reserve University ($1.2M).

Does Kulas Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kulas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kulas Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John P Murphy Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation.

Where is Kulas Foundation based?

Kulas Foundation is based in OH.

Foundation Dossiers

Ohio · Private foundation

Kulas Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 47
Grants FY2024: 49
Organizations funded FY2023: 10%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $325,000
Organizations funded a year: 43 to 61; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $46M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Kulas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthInternationalPublic BenefitOther

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
FY2024still arriving	47	$1.9M	2%
FY2023	49	$1.8M	10%
FY2022	43	$1.6M	7%
FY2021	50	$1.6M	14%
FY2020	45	$1.8M	7%
FY2019	56	$1.4M	7%
FY2018	59	$1.3M	36%
FY2017	61	$1.7M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$8.1MEducation$3.1MHealth$748kHuman Services$321kCommunity Improvement$315kPhilanthropy$295kReligion$141kPublic Benefit$92kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Musical Arts Association	$2,027,500	8	1%
Cleveland Institute of Music	$1,418,000	8	1%
Case Western Reserve University	$1,221,000	8	0%
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc	$910,000	8	1%
Baldwin Wallace University	$468,000	8	0%
Great Lakes Theater Festival Inc	$450,000	8	3%
Cleveland Ballet	$285,000	7	5%
Kent State University Foundation	$275,600	8	0%
The University of Akron Foundation	$267,000	8	0%
Beck Center for the Arts	$217,000	6	2%

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All grantees of Kulas Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Musical Arts Association	$2,027,500	8	1%
Cleveland Institute of Music	$1,418,000	8	1%
Case Western Reserve University	$1,221,000	8	0%
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc	$910,000	8	1%
Baldwin Wallace University	$468,000	8	0%
Great Lakes Theater Festival Inc	$450,000	8	3%
Cleveland Ballet	$285,000	7	5%
Kent State University Foundation	$275,600	8	0%
The University of Akron Foundation	$267,000	8	0%
Beck Center for the Arts	$217,000	6	2%
Playhouse Square Foundation	$212,500	4	0%
Cleveland State University Foundation	$199,500	8	0%
Apollo's Fire Baroque	$195,000	7	1%
Friends of Breakthrough Schools	$175,000	7	0%
The Cleveland Institute of Art	$170,500	3	1%
The Cleveland Play House	$160,000	6	0%
United Way of Greater Cleveland	$152,000	3	0%
Group Plan Commission	$150,000	3	5%
Cleveland Film Society	$150,000	7	1%
Cleveland Public Theatre Inc	$145,000	6	2%
The Cleveland Music School Settlement	$144,500	7	1%
Karamu House Inc	$143,500	6	1%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation	$136,000	7	1%
Oberlin College	$136,000	8	0%
Piano International Assoc of Northern Oh	$135,000	6	4%
The Musical Theater Project Inc	$125,000	5	8%
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron	$120,000	3	0%
Assembly for the Arts	$105,000	4	10%
The Salvation Army	$103,000	3	n/a
Groundworks Dance Theater	$96,000	6	7%
Philanthropy Ohio	$95,000	7	1%
Near West Theatre Inc	$90,000	7	2%
Cleveland Pops Orchestra	$85,000	6	3%
Ideastream	$85,000	4	0%
City Mission	$82,500	5	n/a
Bluewater Chamber Orchestra	$80,000	4	16%
The City Club of Cleveland	$78,000	4	2%
Julie Billiart School	$75,000	6	n/a
University Circle Incorporated	$67,500	8	0%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History	$50,000	1	0%
Greater Akron Musical Association Inc	$45,000	6	1%
The Cleveland Modern Dance Association	$45,000	4	3%
Roots of American Music	$45,000	2	12%
Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center	$45,000	5	0%
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning	$42,500	6	1%
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra	$41,000	6	5%
John Carroll University	$39,000	8	0%
Cleveland Council on World Affairs	$35,000	4	1%
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center	$35,000	6	0%
Youth Challenge	$32,500	6	0%
Chamberfest Cleveland	$32,000	4	2%
Professional Flair Inc	$30,000	4	2%
Cleveland School of the Arts Board of Trustees	$30,000	2	4%
St John Cantius Church	$25,000	1	n/a
Our Lady of Peace Church	$25,000	1	n/a
Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education	$25,000	2	n/a
Citymusic Cleveland Inc	$23,000	6	2%
Cleveland Opera Inc	$20,000	3	9%
Contemporary Youth Orchestra	$19,000	3	3%
Cleveland Opera Theater	$17,500	3	n/a
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute	$15,000	3	0%
Lawrence School	$14,520	3	0%
Cleveland Leadership Center	$12,500	2	0%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland	$10,000	2	0%
Business Volunteers Unlimited	$10,000	2	0%
The Fine Arts Association	$10,000	1	1%
Modern Warrior Live	$10,000	2	4%
Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation	$8,000	2	1%
Dobama Theatre Inc	$8,000	2	1%
Summit Choral Society Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
Lake Erie College	$5,200	3	0%
Shaker Heights Development Corporation	$5,000	1	3%
St Edward High School	$5,000	1	n/a
Notre Dame College	$4,000	3	0%
Lakeview Cemetery Foundation	$3,500	1	0%
Ursuline College	$3,475	3	0%
Slowik Music Institute	$3,000	1	1%
Hiram College	$2,750	3	0%
St Christopher Church	$2,500	2	n/a
Urban Community School	$2,500	3	0%
Friendly Inn Settlement Inc	$2,500	1	0%
International Partners in Mission	$2,000	2	n/a
Spelman College	$1,000	1	0%
Malachi House Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kulas Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 73.

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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.

John P Murphy FoundationOH99.5× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John P Murphy Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith 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 Kulas Foundation

How much does Kulas Foundation give?: Kulas Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $1,933,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kulas Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Education (23%), Health (6%).
Who are Kulas Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Musical Arts Association ($2.0M), Cleveland Institute of Music ($1.4M), Case Western Reserve University ($1.2M).
Does Kulas Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kulas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kulas Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John P Murphy Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation.
Where is Kulas Foundation based?: Kulas Foundation is based in OH.