Ohio · Private foundation
Sulsberger 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.
- $316k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,807
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $47,421
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Sulsberger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 15 | $285k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $316k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $320k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $403k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $369k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $352k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $307k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $307k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zanesville Concert Association % Rick Aichele | $299,651 | 9 | 71% |
| Zanesville Museum of Art | $295,934 | 9 | 7% |
| Licking County Family YMCA | $263,968 | 5 | 1% |
| Zanesville Civic League Inc | $149,826 | 9 | 11% |
| Allwell Behavioral Health Services | $149,826 | 9 | 0% |
| Muskingum Family Y | $138,084 | 3 | 24% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $12,646 | 2 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $6,323 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sulsberger Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn
How this is measured
About Sulsberger Foundation
- How much does Sulsberger Foundation give?
- Sulsberger Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $316,141 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sulsberger Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (15%).
- Who are Sulsberger Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Zanesville Concert Association % Rick Aichele ($300k), Zanesville Museum of Art ($296k), Licking County Family YMCA ($264k).
- Does Sulsberger Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sulsberger Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sulsberger Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn.
- Where is Sulsberger Foundation based?
- Sulsberger Foundation is based in OH.
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