Ohio · Private foundation
The Gries Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $339k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $151,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations The Gries Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 32 | $336k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $1.2M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $258k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.2M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $234k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $241k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $264k | 26% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $268k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case Western Reserve University | $151,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $135,200 | 5 | 0% |
| The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage | $114,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Vocational Guidance Services | $111,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Play House | $92,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $82,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $60,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Hawken School | $43,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Downtown Cleveland Alliance | $37,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ideastream | $36,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gries Family 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: The Cleveland Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The George Gund Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Kulas Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About The Gries Family Foundation
- How much does The Gries Family Foundation give?
- The Gries Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $338,521 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Gries Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (49%), Arts & Culture (12%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are The Gries Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Case Western Reserve University ($151k), American Jewish Committee ($135k), The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ($114k).
- Does The Gries Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gries Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gries Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, John P Murphy Foundation, Jewish Federation of Cleveland.
- Where is The Gries Family Foundation based?
- The Gries Family Foundation is based in OH.
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