Ohio · Private foundation
Mike's Kids
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $203k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Mike's Kids funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 21 | $203k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $117k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $129k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $142k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $111k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $93k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $91k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $60k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, 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 | $104,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Lawrence School | $94,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Youth Challenge | $92,600 | 9 | 1% |
| Elyria Catholic High School | $73,200 | 9 | n/a |
| Matthew's Lending Library | $29,200 | 5 | 35% |
| Blessing House | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Achievement Centers for Children | $19,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Mad Kicks | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Painesville Credit Union | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Help Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of the Wayside Inc | $104,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Lawrence School | $94,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Youth Challenge | $92,600 | 9 | 1% |
| Elyria Catholic High School | $73,200 | 9 | n/a |
| Matthew's Lending Library | $29,200 | 5 | 35% |
| Blessing House | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Achievement Centers for Children | $19,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Mad Kicks | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Painesville Credit Union | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Help Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Empower Sports Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| New Avenues to Independence Inc | $2,775 | 2 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Music School Settlement | $2,585 | 1 | 0% |
| Footprints Center for Autism | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| A Leg to Stand on Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| American Association for Justice | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($536k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mike's Kids supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 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: The Cleveland Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Community Fund Management Foundation Inc · Community West Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · Giant Eagle Foundation · Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Mike's Kids
- How much does Mike's Kids give?
- Mike's Kids reported 22 grants totaling $203,190 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mike's Kids fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (25%), Recreation & Sports (21%).
- Who are Mike's Kids's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Our Lady of the Wayside Inc ($105k), Lawrence School ($94k), Youth Challenge ($93k).
- Does Mike's Kids fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mike's Kids accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mike's Kids?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Sk Wellman Foundation, Community Fund Management Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mike's Kids based?
- Mike's Kids is based in OH.
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