Ohio · Private foundation
Palko 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.
- $36k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,650
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $617k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Palko Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 39 | $36k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $33k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $26k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $23k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $23k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $20k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $19k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $14k | 17% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Name High School | $53,100 | 9 | n/a |
| Crown Point Ecology Center | $12,352 | 9 | 0% |
| Regina Health Center | $4,050 | 8 | 0% |
| The First Tee of Cleveland | $2,650 | 8 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Corporation | $2,625 | 9 | 0% |
| Cleveland Platform Tennis Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Cornerstone of Hope Inc | $2,450 | 8 | 0% |
| Turner Syndrome Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 5 | 0% |
| John Owens Adventure Inc | $1,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Achievement Centers for Children | $1,525 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Palko 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.
Open a dossier: The Swagelok Foundation · Alberty Family Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Palko Family Foundation
- How much does Palko Family Foundation give?
- Palko Family Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $35,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Palko Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Employment (14%), Health (12%).
- Who are Palko Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Holy Name High School ($53k), Crown Point Ecology Center ($12k), Regina Health Center ($4k).
- Does Palko Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Palko 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 Palko Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Swagelok Foundation, Alberty Family Foundation, The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation.
- Where is Palko Family Foundation based?
- Palko Family Foundation is based in OH.
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