· Private foundation
The Bascom Little Fund Co Andrew L Fabens III
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDEA STREAM | $15,600 |
| CLEVELAND COMPOSERS GUILD | $15,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AKRON SYMPHONIC WINDS | $5,000 |
| LITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY INC | $5,000 |
| THE MUSIC SETTLEMENT | $4,300 |
| CLEVELAND CHAMBER COLLECTIVE | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IIDEASTREAM9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +14%
- L4LOCAL 4 MUSIC FUND INC2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +74%
- CPCLEVELAND POPS ORCHESTRA3× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORECHEone grant, 2017 · $7k
- NENO EXIT NEW MUSIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $6k
- CCCLEVELAND CONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORECHESTRAone grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Music Performance - Performing free concerts of new symphonic music
MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity…
Vivo's mission is to build community through world-class chamber music performances. vivo's vision is to serve as a launch-pad for local artistic engagement by presenting innovative, community-oriented musical performances throughout…
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…
The Cleveland Orchestra inspires and enriches lives by creating extraordinary musical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence.
Citymusic cleveland is a professional chamber orchestra, which performs free concerts throughout n.e. ohio, accompanied by art shows of local artists. our mission is to develop audiences & build communities through the arts by presenting…
Orchestral program for communit
Classical music performances in Cincinnati.
The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND CHAMBER COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds LOCAL 4 MUSIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND POPS ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ENCORE CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds AKRON SYMPHONIC WINDS ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND CHAMBER CHOIR ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN OHIO YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
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 Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Michele M and Lawrence R Beyer Family Fund · The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bascom Little Fund Co Andrew L Fabens III funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bascom Little Fund Co Andrew L Fabens III. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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