Ohio · Private foundation
Synthomer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 289
- Grants FY2024
- 257
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 186 to 257
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 22
- Total assets, FY2024
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Synthomer Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $502k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 227 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 257 | $1.4M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 244 | $1.3M | 62% |
| FY2021 | 186 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent State University | $141,780 | 4 | n/a |
| Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc | $140,600 | 4 | 1% |
| United Way of Greater Cleveland | $121,577 | 3 | 0% |
| Cleveland State University Foundation | $70,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of North East Ohio | $68,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Ohio State University Foundation | $56,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $55,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Team NEO Foundation | $52,000 | 4 | 0% |
| John Carroll University | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 200 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 347 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Synthomer Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 185 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: Akron Community Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Welty Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Gar Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Firstenergy Foundation
How this is measured
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About Synthomer Foundation Inc
- How much does Synthomer Foundation Inc give?
- Synthomer Foundation Inc reported 289 grants totaling $1,314,581 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 186 and 257 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Synthomer Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Philanthropy (10%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Synthomer Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Kent State University ($142k), Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc ($141k), United Way of Greater Cleveland ($122k).
- Does Synthomer Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Synthomer Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Synthomer Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn, The Welty Family Foundation.
- Where is Synthomer Foundation Inc based?
- Synthomer Foundation Inc is based in OH.
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