Ohio · Private foundation
The Park 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.
- $4.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2025
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 60
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations The Park Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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 | 65 | $4.8M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 60 | $4.5M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $2.6M | 51% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $3.9M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $3.0M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keep Memory Alive | $1,991,500 | 4 | n/a |
| The Park Academy | $1,936,600 | 6 | 19% |
| The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Miami Symphony Orchestra Inc | $500,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Center for Creative Education | $400,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Cleveland Institute of Music | $375,000 | 4 | 0% |
| South Florida Pbs Inc | $350,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Leaders in Furthering Education Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc | $270,000 | 4 | 26% |
| The Musical Arts Association | $263,580 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Park Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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 · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The George Gund Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · The Jackson Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · Samuel J & Connie M Frankino Charitable Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Park Foundation
- How much does The Park Foundation give?
- The Park Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $4,864,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 60 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Park Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Arts & Culture (17%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Park Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Keep Memory Alive ($2.0M), The Park Academy ($1.9M), The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc ($500k).
- Does The Park Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Park 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 Park Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Jewish Federation of Cleveland, The George Gund Foundation.
- Where is The Park Foundation based?
- The Park Foundation is based in OH.
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