Ohio · Private foundation
Me & Fj Callahan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $850,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 64
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Me & Fj Callahan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 71 | $2.9M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $2.0M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $1.3M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case Western Reserve University | $1,930,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Musical Arts Association | $1,800,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $225,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cleveland Institute of Music | $206,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Intermuseum Conservation Association | $199,201 | 4 | 8% |
| University Circle Incorporated | $155,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cleveland Film Society | $135,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Hawken School | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University Settlement Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Me & Fj Callahan 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 George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Swagelok Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Sk Wellman Foundation
How this is measured
About Me & Fj Callahan Foundation
- How much does Me & Fj Callahan Foundation give?
- Me & Fj Callahan Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $2,915,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 64 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Me & Fj Callahan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Education (32%), Health (6%).
- Who are Me & Fj Callahan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Case Western Reserve University ($1.9M), The Musical Arts Association ($1.8M), Cleveland Museum of Natural History ($225k).
- Does Me & Fj Callahan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Me & Fj Callahan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Me & Fj Callahan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
- Where is Me & Fj Callahan Foundation based?
- Me & Fj Callahan Foundation is based in OH.
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