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Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$540k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$9.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$540k0%
FY202325$500k36%
FY202218$160k0%
FY202125$151k8%
FY202027$155k0%
FY201932$160k28%
FY201832$156k6%
FY201733$153kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$971kEducation$334kHealth$194kEnvironment$164kFood & Nutrition$65kHuman Services$63kInternational$48kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($536k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCleveland Institute of Music: $332,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $327,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHiram College: $130,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCleveland Restoration Society Inc: $100,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetThe Holden Arboretum: $95,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $64,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metrohealth Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCleveland Museum of Natural History: $47,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCleveland Museum of Art: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Now Greater Cleveland Inc: $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity Inc: $28,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland and East Central Ohio Inc: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHopewell: $21,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPrevent Child Abuse America: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLake Erie Ink: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCircle Health Services: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Theater Project Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMetrosquash Nfp: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cleveland Play House: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Reserve Land Conservancy: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Reserve Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Joseph & Nancy Keithley Foundation · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · Ibm International Foundation · The Laub Foundation · The Betty T and David M Schneider Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation

How much does Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation give?
Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $540,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Education (17%), Health (10%).
Who are Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cleveland Institute of Music ($332k), The Musical Arts Association ($327k), Hiram College ($130k).
Does Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn, The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation.
Where is Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation based?
Robert R & Gay C Cull Family Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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