Ohio · Private foundation
The Business of Good Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $595,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Business of Good Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 13 | $1.3M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $1.7M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $1.4M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $980k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $712k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $558k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $363k | 68% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $424k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sea Change Incorporated | $2,198,334 | 7 | 62% |
| America Mentors | $1,670,000 | 7 | 67% |
| Park Place Non-Profit Center Co | $610,824 | 4 | 98% |
| Ashtabula River Foundation | $239,303 | 4 | 88% |
| Ashtabula County Family YMCA | $126,442 | 2 | 7% |
| Cincinnati Youth Collaborative | $115,000 | 2 | 3% |
| St John School | $113,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Gmiluth Chasodim (The Hebrew Free Loan Association) | $91,700 | 4 | 6% |
| Notre Dame College | $75,500 | 1 | 0% |
| I Know I Can | $70,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Business of Good Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 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: The Cleveland Foundation · Robert S Morrison Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The George Gund Foundation · The Ashtabula Foundation Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Mfg Foundation Co · Lincoln Electric Fdn Pfdn
How this is measured
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About The Business of Good Foundation
- How much does The Business of Good Foundation give?
- The Business of Good Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,319,210 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Business of Good Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (39%), Education (28%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are The Business of Good Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sea Change Incorporated ($2.2M), America Mentors ($1.7M), Park Place Non-Profit Center Co ($611k).
- Does The Business of Good Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Business of Good Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Business of Good Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Robert S Morrison Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Business of Good Foundation based?
- The Business of Good Foundation is based in OH.
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