Ohio · Private foundation
The George Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $396k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The George Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 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 | 49 | $395k | 2% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $388k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $336k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $357k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $366k | 2% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $381k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $362k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $363k | 11% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus Symphony Orchestra | $2,549,150 | 9 | 4% |
| Ballet Metropolitan Inc | $330,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Kalona Historical Society | $45,200 | 9 | 2% |
| Columbus Humane | $9,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Columbus Museum of Art | $8,075 | 8 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $7,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Columbus Association for the Performing Arts | $2,660 | 8 | 0% |
| Bat Conservation International | $2,600 | 9 | 0% |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $1,900 | 7 | 0% |
| Cozy Cat Cottage Adoption Center | $1,850 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($331k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The George Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Columbus Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Meuse Family Foundation · Greater Columbus Arts Council · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The John J and Pauline Gerlach Foundation
How this is measured
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About The George Foundation
- How much does The George Foundation give?
- The George Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $396,164 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The George Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (89%), Philanthropy (10%), Animals (1%).
- Who are The George Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Columbus Symphony Orchestra ($2.5M), Ballet Metropolitan Inc ($330k), Kalona Historical Society ($45k).
- Does The George Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The George Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The George Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Cardinal Health Foundation, Battelle Memorial Institute.
- Where is The George Foundation based?
- The George Foundation is based in OH.
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