Ohio · Private foundation
The Fortney Foundation
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.
- $88k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Fortney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 21 | $88k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $67k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $86k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $110k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $114k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $118k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $77k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $120k | 31% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $126,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cleveland Christian Home Inc | $88,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Animal Protective League | $45,500 | 8 | 0% |
| College Now Greater Cleveland Inc | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rainbow Babies & Children's Foundation | $23,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Friendship Animal Protective League | $22,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Youth Challenge | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Providence House Inc | $16,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Baby Quest Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Knowledge Is Cancers Kryptonite | $15,000 | 4 | 22% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($325k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fortney Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Coltman Thomas J Foundation Ta · The Swagelok Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Fortney Foundation
- How much does The Fortney Foundation give?
- The Fortney Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $88,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Fortney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Fortney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($126k), Cleveland Christian Home Inc ($89k), The Cleveland Animal Protective League ($46k).
- Does The Fortney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fortney 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 Fortney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Coltman Thomas J Foundation Ta, The Swagelok Foundation.
- Where is The Fortney Foundation based?
- The Fortney Foundation is based in OH.
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