Ohio · Private foundation
The Payne Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $843k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Payne Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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 | 23 | $843k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $730k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $944k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $814k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $780k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Musical Arts Association | $575,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Decorative Arts Center of Ohio | $413,790 | 5 | 17% |
| Brevard Music Center Incorporated | $250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Friends of Breakthrough Schools | $175,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cleveland Institute of Music | $166,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lakeview Cemetery Foundation | $139,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Theatre Du Reve Inc | $90,000 | 5 | 34% |
| Hospice of the Western Reserve Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| City Mission | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Payne Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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: Kulas Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About The Payne Fund
- How much does The Payne Fund give?
- The Payne Fund reported 41 grants totaling $843,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Payne Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Education (17%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Payne Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Musical Arts Association ($575k), Decorative Arts Center of Ohio ($414k), Brevard Music Center Incorporated ($250k).
- Does The Payne Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Payne Fund 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 Payne Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kulas Foundation, John P Murphy Foundation, The George Gund Foundation.
- Where is The Payne Fund based?
- The Payne Fund is based in OH.
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