Ohio · Private foundation
Sauerland Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $260,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 50
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Sauerland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k 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 | 47 | $2.4M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $2.2M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $1.4M | 37% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $650k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $430k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $251k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Breakthrough Schools | $871,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $850,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $505,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Shaker Schools Foundation | $172,000 | 6 | 8% |
| The Homeless Charity | $167,000 | 3 | 37% |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $155,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Haven Home LLC | $130,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Community Life Collaborative | $126,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sauerland Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Cleveland Foundation · Spaulding Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sauerland Foundation
- How much does Sauerland Foundation give?
- Sauerland Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $2,418,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sauerland Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Arts & Culture (16%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are Sauerland Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Friends of Breakthrough Schools ($872k), Cleveland Museum of Art ($850k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($505k).
- Does Sauerland Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sauerland Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sauerland Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Sutphin Family Foundation Ica.
- Where is Sauerland Foundation based?
- Sauerland Foundation is based in OH.
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