Ohio · Private foundation
The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 101
- Grants FY2024
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 79
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $84M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $731k 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 | 86 | $8.7M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $7.5M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $7.7M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $6.4M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $5.4M | 42% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $5.0M | 46% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $4.9M | 51% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $4.3M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Cincinnati Foundation | $16,859,824 | 8 | 3% |
| Accelerate Great Schools | $4,277,975 | 8 | 59% |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center | $3,780,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Mary Magdalen Foundation Inc | $3,313,450 | 8 | 85% |
| Zoological Society of Cincinnati | $2,270,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Great Parks Forever | $1,500,000 | 3 | 37% |
| Hope Ignites Cincinnati | $1,060,040 | 7 | 24% |
| St Xavier High School Inc | $987,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Cincinnati Parks Foundation | $920,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Cincinnati Works | $684,500 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 158 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 141 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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Hcs Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Edelweiss Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Millstone Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation
How this is measured
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About The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation
- How much does The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation give?
- The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation reported 101 grants totaling $8,700,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (47%), Education (13%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The University of Cincinnati Foundation ($17M), Accelerate Great Schools ($4.3M), Children's Hospital Medical Center ($3.8M).
- Does The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation.
- Where is The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation based?
- The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation is based in OH.
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