Ohio · Private foundation
Ridgecliff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $478k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,283
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Ridgecliff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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 | 34 | $499k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $402k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $443k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $552k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $497k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $499k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $478k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $445k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornerstone of Hope Inc | $222,160 | 9 | 1% |
| Lifeact | $215,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Cleveland Rape Crisis Center | $190,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Nami-Greater Cleveland | $175,657 | 9 | 4% |
| Womensafe Inc | $164,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Providence House Inc | $159,323 | 8 | 1% |
| West Side Catholic Center | $154,027 | 9 | 1% |
| Cleveland Public Theatre Inc | $136,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Neighborhood Health Care Inc | $121,164 | 8 | 0% |
| Epilepsy Association | $114,700 | 7 | 3% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ridgecliff 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 Swagelok Foundation · Woodruff Foundation · Community West Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · E S Prentiss Foundation-Ir · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Reinberger Foundation · Three Arches Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ridgecliff Foundation
- How much does Ridgecliff Foundation give?
- Ridgecliff Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $477,514 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ridgecliff Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Human Services (29%), Education (10%).
- Who are Ridgecliff Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cornerstone of Hope Inc ($222k), Lifeact ($215k), Cleveland Rape Crisis Center ($190k).
- Does Ridgecliff Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ridgecliff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ridgecliff Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Swagelok Foundation, Woodruff Foundation.
- Where is Ridgecliff Foundation based?
- Ridgecliff Foundation is based in OH.
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