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Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
147
Grants FY2024
111
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$350,000
Organizations funded a year
74 to 126
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$207M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthCrime & LegalOther
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 arriving108$7.5M38%
FY2023111$7.2M42%
FY2022126$7.0M51%
FY202187$6.4M47%
FY202074$5.7Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$10.0MHousing & Shelter$4.5MHuman Services$3.9MCrime & Legal$2.7MEducation$2.5MPhilanthropy$2.3MArts & Culture$2.1MFood & Nutrition$1.3MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Burten Bell Carr Development Inc$2,371,069516%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland$1,565,00053%
Neighborhood Progress Inc$1,487,000415%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$1,036,50050%
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers$796,25055%
Enterprise Community Partners Inc$713,00050%
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc$688,500419%
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority$678,8503n/a
The Center for Community Solutions$670,00055%
Cuyahoga Land Bank Charities$670,000222%
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All grantees of Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Burten Bell Carr Development Inc$2,371,069516%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland$1,565,00053%
Neighborhood Progress Inc$1,487,000415%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$1,036,50050%
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers$796,25055%
Enterprise Community Partners Inc$713,00050%
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc$688,500419%
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority$678,8503n/a
The Center for Community Solutions$670,00055%
Cuyahoga Land Bank Charities$670,000222%
Thea Bowman Center$650,000522%
East 66th Street Services Inc$642,000317%
Esperanza Inc$603,00056%
Village of Healing$584,000321%
Environmental Health Watch$556,000416%
Policy Matters Ohio$520,00057%
Neighborhood Leadership Institute$485,76259%
Fairhill Partners$444,910510%
The Centers for Families and Children$440,00050%
Greater Cleveland Congregations Inc$397,00059%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio$396,00041%
Providence House Inc$375,00043%
Birthing Beautiful Communities$370,00045%
Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons$353,00049%
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute$351,50053%
Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio$350,00057%
Towards Employment Inc$345,00051%
Association for African American Cultural Gar$325,000265%
American Journalism Project Inc$300,00021%
The Phebe Foundation$294,600447%
Case Western Reserve University$282,39230%
The City Club of Cleveland$261,25054%
Jordan Community Residential Center$250,000113%
Seeds of Literacy$237,52054%
Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity Inc$212,00031%
Life Exchange Center$200,00047%
Chn Housing Capital$200,00029%
Art of Me Productions$190,000427%
United Labor Agency Inc$165,00051%
A Vision of Change Incorporated$154,000225%
The Meeting Place Learning Center$150,000321%
New Village Corporation$150,00012%
Philanthropy Ohio$145,00053%
City Year Inc$140,70040%
Adoption Network Cleveland$138,00045%
Undivided Cleveland$135,500255%
Lakeview Cemetery Foundation$132,15818%
Balance Point Studios$123,500235%
See You At The Top$121,000324%
Pregnant With Possibilities Resource Center$115,00037%
Journey Center for Safety and Healing$115,0001n/a
Health Policy Institute of Ohio$113,00017%
Home Repair Resource Center$110,00046%
The Cleveland Police Foundation$110,000125%
Chn Housing Partners$105,00010%
Economic and Community Development Institute$105,00020%
Land Studio Inc$105,00023%
University Settlement Inc$102,18512%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$100,00010%
Children's Defense Fund$95,00030%
Concerned Citizens Community Council$88,000372%
A Cultural Exchange Inc$81,0001n/a
Bpa Charitable Foundation$75,00057%
West Side Catholic Center$73,00012%
Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition$72,000115%
Graffiti Heart Corporation$70,124167%
New Image Life Skills Academy$66,0004n/a
Black Environmental Leaders Association$65,00034%
New City Cleveland$64,500350%
West Side Community House$62,00014%
Gmiluth Chasodim (The Hebrew Free Loan Association)$58,25015%
99treasures Arts & Culture$55,000317%
Legal Works Inc$55,00027%
Beat the Streets Cleveland$55,000212%
Greater Cleveland Urban Film Fdn$50,200111%
Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio$50,00031%
Central State University$50,0002n/a
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$50,00010%
College Now Greater Cleveland Inc$50,00010%
Gem-N-Me$47,1504n/a
Collaboration Station$45,00027%
Ohio Voice$45,00021%
Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland$45,00030%
Standup for Change$44,386371%
Shaker Square Area Development Corp$42,000240%
Literacy in the Hood$40,0002n/a
Emerald Development & Economic Network$40,00010%
Stop the Pain Inc$37,5961n/a
Jarvis Gibson Foundation$37,000235%
Cleveland Leadership Center$37,00031%
Cleveland Municipal School District Transformation$35,00034%
University Circle Incorporated$35,00030%
Renounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program Corporation$33,000218%
The Northeast Ohio Hispanic Center for Economic Development$30,00012%
Project Lift Behavioral Health Services$30,00028%
The Metrohealth Foundation Inc$25,00020%
Fairfax Renaissance Development$25,00011%
Celebrate Cleveland Inc$25,0001n/a
Unbar Cafe Inc$25,0001n/a
Doan Brook Watershed Partnership$25,00016%
Organic Connects$25,0001n/a
Rid-All Foundation Inc$25,00012%
Creative Healing Foundation Incorporated$25,0001n/a
Care in Common$25,0001n/a
Benedictine High School Incorporated$25,0001n/a
Spread the Love Foundation$25,0001n/a
Murtis Taylor Human Services System$25,00010%
The Muslim Ten Year Plan Inc$25,0001n/a
Goldenrod Montessori$24,40025%
Women of Color Foundation$23,50035%
Rollinbuckeyez Foundation$23,166264%
The Prolific Achievers Academy Inc$21,00025%
Cleveland Metropolitan School District$20,0002n/a
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc$20,00010%
Cleveland Social Venture Partners$20,00014%
Larchmere Porchfest$17,5002n/a
Organize Ohio Inc$17,00025%
Gideons Army$16,5001n/a
Bike Cleveland$15,02642%
Olivet Housing & Community Development Corporation$15,000111%
Urban Barber Association$15,0001n/a
The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland$15,00011%
Karamu House Inc$15,00010%
Food Depot to Health Incorporated$15,0001n/a
Little Africa Food Collaborative Inc$15,0001n/a
New Sardis Primitive Baptist Church$14,0001n/a
Hatties Helpers$12,0001n/a
Future Leaders Academy$12,0001n/a
Tavern Coffee House Inc$11,0002n/a
Universal Love Ent$10,9852n/a
Harvard Square Center$10,8051n/a
Cleveland State University Foundation$10,00010%
Lakewood Rangers Education Foundation$10,00012%
Asian Services in Action Inc$10,00010%
Enlightened Solutions$10,00014%
Ricks Brothers Foundation$10,00015%
Speak Into the Light$10,0001n/a
Sewing Using Steam$9,6452n/a
Cleveland Public Theatre Inc$9,49511%
National Wildlife Federation$7,00010%
Kings & Queens of Art$6,5522n/a
The Intergenerational School$6,00010%
Art for Resistance Through Change$6,0001n/a
Assembly for the Arts$6,00011%
Peel Dem Layers Back$6,00015%
Speak Life Into Existence$6,0001n/a
M-Pac Cleveland$6,00014%
Buckeye Thrives$6,0001n/a
Collectivexpress Incorporated$6,00018%
Community Wealth Partners of Greater Cleveland$6,0001n/a
Transparency Program$5,55016%
Rekindle$5,4001n/a
West Park Baptist Church$5,0001n/a
North Union Farmers Market$5,00011%
Laurel School$5,00010%
Music Through the Streets$5,0001n/a
Gospel Music Historical Society$5,0001n/a
Win Ministries - Women in Need$5,0001n/a
St Aloysius St Agatha Parish$5,0001n/a
Delta Alpha Lambda Foundation$5,0001n/a
Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center$5,00011%
Hispanic Urban Minority Alcholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program Inc$5,00010%
Economic Growth Foundation$5,00010%
Motivated and Empowered Inc$5,00017%
Share Homes Inc$5,00013%
Positively Empowering and Restoring Ladies Self- Esteem Inc$4,9751n/a
Dunnican Foundation$4,0001n/a
Lexington Bell Community Center$3,08010%
1000 Ties$3,08014%
Positive Plus$3,0001n/a
The Fishing Foundation$2,6301n/a
Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition Inc$2,00010%
Cleveland Peacemakers Inc$1,00010%
The Lock-In Billiards League for Youth$1,0001n/a
Goods Bank Neo$1,00010%
Upcycle Parts Shop$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 91 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 129 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBurten Bell Carr Development Inc: $2,371,069 over 5y, 16% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cleveland: $1,565,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNeighborhood Progress Inc: $1,487,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $1,036,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $796,250 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetEnterprise Community Partners Inc: $713,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc: $688,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetThe Center for Community Solutions: $670,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCuyahoga Land Bank Charities: $670,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetThea Bowman Center: $650,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetEast 66th Street Services Inc: $642,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetEsperanza Inc: $603,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetVillage of Healing: $584,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetEnvironmental Health Watch: $556,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetPolicy Matters Ohio: $520,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetNeighborhood Leadership Institute: $485,762 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetFairhill Partners: $444,910 over 5y, 10% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $440,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Cleveland Congregations Inc: $397,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio: $396,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetProvidence House Inc: $375,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetBirthing Beautiful Communities: $370,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetPassages Connecting Fathers & Sons: $353,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetEdwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute: $351,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetFund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio: $350,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetTowards Employment Inc: $345,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAssociation for African American Cultural Gar: $325,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetAmerican Journalism Project Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Phebe Foundation: $294,600 over 4y, 47% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $282,392 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe City Club of Cleveland: $261,250 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetJordan Community Residential Center: $250,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSeeds of Literacy: $237,520 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetGreater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity Inc: $212,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLife Exchange Center: $200,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetChn Housing Capital: $200,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetArt of Me Productions: $190,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetUnited Labor Agency Inc: $165,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetA Vision of Change Incorporated: $154,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetThe Meeting Place Learning Center: $150,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetNew Village Corporation: $150,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPhilanthropy Ohio: $145,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCity Year Inc: $140,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAdoption Network Cleveland: $138,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetUndivided Cleveland: $135,500 over 2y, 55% of budgetLakeview Cemetery Foundation: $132,158 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetBalance Point Studios: $123,500 over 2y, 35% of budgetSee You At The Top: $121,000 over 3y, 24% 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 129.

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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 FoundationOH152.1× affinity109 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Abington Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable 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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About Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio

How much does Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio give?
Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio reported 147 grants totaling $7,878,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 126 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (28%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Burten Bell Carr Development Inc ($2.4M), Legal Aid Society of Cleveland ($1.6M), Neighborhood Progress Inc ($1.5M).
Does Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
Where is Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio based?
Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio 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 269 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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