· Private foundation
Ralph and Lucille Schey 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Cleveland Orchestra | $38,000 |
| Playhouse Square Foundation | $26,000 |
| American Red Cross | $20,000 |
| The 249th Engineer Battalion Association | $11,137 |
| St Christopher By-The-River | $10,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $10,000 |
| Serbian Cultural Garden | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMThe Musical Arts Association7× · 2018–2025 · $671k · revenue +27%
- PSPlayhouse Square Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $99k · revenue +31%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2022–2025 · $92k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- GSGeorgia State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +77%
- NONORTHEAST OHIO CURLING CLUBone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -56%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $21k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION NORTHERN OHIO CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO CURLING CLUB ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Ohio Girls Golf Foundation ↗
- Who funds URSINUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BALLET ↗
- Who funds LAKE VERMILION FIRE BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds THE BARGAIN BOX ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ralph and Lucille Schey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph and Lucille Schey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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