Ohio · Private foundation
The Ariel Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $7.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,760,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $39M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations The Ariel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $829k 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 | 35 | $7.3M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $2.9M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $4.2M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $5.0M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $6.8M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $21M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $5.6M | 35% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $4.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon Development Company Inc | $9,083,292 | 3 | 96% |
| Mount Vernon Nazarene University | $6,110,152 | 8 | 3% |
| Cooper Park Development Company | $2,851,115 | 2 | 71% |
| Knox County Land Reutilization Corporati | $2,690,258 | 5 | 64% |
| Knox County Memorial Building Inc | $2,364,174 | 4 | 75% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Mount Vernon Ohio | $2,264,876 | 8 | 43% |
| Woodward Development Corporation | $1,402,150 | 6 | 81% |
| The Village Network | $1,155,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Knox Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc | $1,148,163 | 3 | 99% |
| Knox County Head Start Inc | $1,024,496 | 8 | 5% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($20M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ariel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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: Knox County Foundation · United Way of Knox County Ohio Inc · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · Park National Corporation Foundation · Richard & Arline Landers Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · The Burgett Family Foundation · Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund · Licking County Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association
How this is measured
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About The Ariel Foundation
- How much does The Ariel Foundation give?
- The Ariel Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $7,770,651 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ariel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (28%), Health (19%), Education (18%).
- Who are The Ariel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mount Vernon Development Company Inc ($9.1M), Mount Vernon Nazarene University ($6.1M), Cooper Park Development Company ($2.9M).
- Does The Ariel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ariel 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 The Ariel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Knox County Foundation, United Way of Knox County Ohio Inc, Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ariel Foundation based?
- The Ariel Foundation is based in OH.
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