How much does The Abington Foundation give?

The Abington Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $1,631,308 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 74 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Abington Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (15%), Human Services (12%).

Who are The Abington Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Centers for Families and Children ($467k), Cleveland Metropolitan School District ($460k), Urban Community School ($400k).

Does The Abington Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Abington Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Abington Foundation?

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 The Abington Foundation based?

The Abington Foundation is based in OH.

Foundation Dossiers

Ohio · Private foundation

The Abington Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 73
Grants FY2025: 74
Organizations funded FY2024: 15%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $200,000
Organizations funded a year: 58 to 74; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $40M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Abington Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $423k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	73	$1.6M	22%
FY2024	74	$2.0M	15%
FY2023	70	$1.5M	19%
FY2022	64	$1.6M	20%
FY2021	71	$1.8M	39%
FY2020	58	$1.7M	n/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.

Education$2.5MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$1.1MYouth Development$780kHealth$646kCommunity Improvement$410kCrime & Legal$297kAnimals$250kOther$0

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
The Centers for Families and Children	$467,000	5	1%
Cleveland Metropolitan School District	$460,000	3	n/a
Urban Community School	$400,000	3	1%
Say Yes Cleveland Scholarship Inc	$368,334	3	3%
Lakeview Cemetery Foundation	$300,000	2	9%
Cleveland Zoological Society	$250,000	1	2%
University Settlement Inc	$235,000	6	3%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History	$215,000	6	1%
Great Lakes Museum of Science Environment and Technology	$202,500	6	2%
Positive Education Program	$201,666	3	0%

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All grantees of The Abington Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Centers for Families and Children	$467,000	5	1%
Cleveland Metropolitan School District	$460,000	3	n/a
Urban Community School	$400,000	3	1%
Say Yes Cleveland Scholarship Inc	$368,334	3	3%
Lakeview Cemetery Foundation	$300,000	2	9%
Cleveland Zoological Society	$250,000	1	2%
University Settlement Inc	$235,000	6	3%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History	$215,000	6	1%
Great Lakes Museum of Science Environment and Technology	$202,500	6	2%
Positive Education Program	$201,666	3	0%
Support Center for Child Advocates	$165,000	6	1%
Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio	$160,000	4	3%
The City Club of Cleveland	$160,000	3	4%
City Year Inc	$155,000	6	0%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc	$150,000	6	0%
The Musical Arts Association	$150,000	6	0%
Near Westside MultiService Corp	$135,000	5	1%
America Scores Cleveland	$135,000	6	4%
Scranton Road Ministries CDC	$130,000	6	4%
Spanish American Committee	$130,000	6	2%
Open Doors Inc	$120,000	6	1%
Saint Martin de Porres High School	$120,000	6	0%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland	$120,000	5	0%
Mobilemed1 Inc Dba Medworks	$115,000	5	4%
The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland	$110,000	6	3%
Neighborhood Health Care Inc	$106,325	2	0%
Family Connections of Northeast Ohio	$105,000	5	2%
Seeds of Literacy	$105,000	6	2%
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry	$105,000	6	0%
Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center at Shaker Lakes	$103,000	6	1%
Smart Development Inc	$100,000	5	1%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio	$100,000	5	0%
Family Promise of Greater Cleveland	$97,000	5	2%
Chn Housing Partners	$95,000	6	0%
Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition	$95,000	5	4%
Youth Opportunities Unlimited	$90,000	5	0%
Playhouse Square Foundation	$85,000	5	0%
The Cleveland Play House	$85,000	4	0%
Cleveland Film Society	$85,000	5	2%
Malachi House Inc	$82,000	4	1%
Hope Ignites Northeastern Ohio Inc	$80,000	6	1%
Developing Connections Northeast Ohio	$76,000	5	7%
College Now Greater Cleveland Inc	$75,000	5	0%
United Way of Greater Cleveland	$75,000	2	0%
The Metrohealth Foundation Inc	$75,000	2	0%
Effective Leadership Academy	$71,000	6	2%
Beech Brook	$70,000	4	0%
Eliza Bryant Village	$65,000	2	27%
Lifeact	$62,500	5	1%
Reach Out & Read Greater Cleveland	$62,500	5	10%
Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons	$62,000	4	2%
Near West Theatre Inc	$62,000	5	2%
Arts Impact Inc	$60,500	6	2%
Esperanza Inc	$60,000	3	1%
Eleanor B Rainey Memorial Institute	$60,000	4	1%
Resource Cleveland	$55,000	3	1%
Stella Maris Inc	$55,000	2	0%
Benedictine High School Incorporated	$50,000	2	n/a
Cleveland Christian Home Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Roots of American Music	$50,000	5	4%
Shared Harvest Foodbank Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Magnolia Clubhouse Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Child Care Resource Center of Cuyahoga County	$45,000	2	0%
University Circle Incorporated	$45,000	3	0%
Art House Inc	$45,000	3	4%
The Children's Museum of Cleveland	$45,000	4	1%
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute	$45,000	2	1%
Birthing Beautiful Communities	$45,000	1	1%
St Malachi Center Incorporated	$45,000	3	n/a
Cleveland Municipal School District Transformation	$45,000	3	4%
Cleveland Public Theatre Inc	$40,000	4	1%
Footpath Foundation	$40,000	4	3%
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center	$40,000	2	0%
Wingspan Care Group	$40,000	1	0%
Skidmark Cle	$37,500	2	5%
Towards Employment Inc	$37,500	3	0%
Village of Healing	$35,000	1	5%
Cuyahoga County Public Library	$35,000	4	n/a
Enterprise Community Partners Inc	$35,000	2	0%
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning	$35,000	3	1%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation	$30,000	2	0%
The Foodbank Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Writers in Residence	$28,000	2	10%
Daily Dose of Reading	$27,750	2	16%
Cleveland Central Catholic High School	$27,000	1	n/a
Great Lakes Theater Festival Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Catholic Charities Corporation	$25,000	1	0%
The First Tee of Cleveland	$25,000	1	1%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio	$25,000	2	0%
Hathaway Brown School	$25,000	2	0%
The Center for Community Solutions	$25,000	1	n/a
Monarch Lifeworks	$25,000	1	0%
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Cleveland Lutheran High School Association	$25,000	1	n/a
East Cleveland Neighborhood Center	$22,000	2	2%
OhioGuidestone	$20,000	1	0%
Villa Angela St Joseph High School	$20,000	1	n/a
Northeast Ohio Worker Center	$20,000	1	n/a
The Teaching Cleveland Foundation	$20,000	2	5%
Women's Recovery Center	$20,000	1	2%
The Baseball Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Rise Up Northeast Ohio	$16,558	1	20%
Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum	$16,000	1	4%
Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center	$15,000	1	0%
Medwish Medworks	$15,000	1	0%
Argonaut	$15,000	1	1%
Journey Center for Safety and Healing	$15,000	1	n/a
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers	$15,000	1	0%
Cleveland Society for the Blind	$15,000	1	n/a
Refresh Collective	$15,000	1	2%
Friends of Breakthrough Schools	$15,000	1	0%
Food Strong	$15,000	1	n/a
Urban Squash Cleveland	$15,000	1	2%
Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools	$12,500	1	0%
Beat the Streets Cleveland	$12,000	1	n/a
Breadwinners Academy	$11,000	1	n/a
Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland	$10,000	1	0%
Cleveland Kids' Book Bank	$10,000	1	2%
Dobama Theatre Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Union Miles Development Corporation	$10,000	1	1%
Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation	$3,000	1	2%
Candid	$2,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($758k), not named here.

The Abington Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 108.

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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 FoundationOH119.3× affinity70 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 · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · The Reinberger Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Nord Family Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Treu Mart Fund

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 The Abington Foundation

How much does The Abington Foundation give?: The Abington Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $1,631,308 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 74 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Abington Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (15%), Human Services (12%).
Who are The Abington Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Centers for Families and Children ($467k), Cleveland Metropolitan School District ($460k), Urban Community School ($400k).
Does The Abington Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Abington Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Abington Foundation?: 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 The Abington Foundation based?: The Abington Foundation is based in OH.