Ohio · Private foundation
Oatey 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.
- $575k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Oatey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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 | 23 | $375k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $589k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $498k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $432k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $562k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $809k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $895k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $716k | 40% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Musical Arts Association | $912,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc | $580,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Youth Challenge | $390,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Living Waters for the World | $235,000 | 8 | 4% |
| The Salvation Army | $235,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Board of Directors of Wittenberg College | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Metrohealth Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cleveland Water Alliance | $175,000 | 5 | 7% |
| The Turn | $125,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Beck Center for the Arts | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 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 Oatey 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 Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The George Gund Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Covia Foundation
How this is measured
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About Oatey Foundation
- How much does Oatey Foundation give?
- Oatey Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $575,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Oatey Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Health (24%), Education (9%).
- Who are Oatey Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Musical Arts Association ($912k), The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc ($580k), Youth Challenge ($390k).
- Does Oatey Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Oatey 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 Oatey Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, The Swagelok Foundation.
- Where is Oatey Foundation based?
- Oatey Foundation is based in OH.
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