Ohio · Private foundation
The Romano Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $647k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Romano Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 8 | $32k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $30k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $33k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $34k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $29k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $29k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $30k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $31k | 25% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Film Society | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Shaker Arts Council | $16,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Flying Horse Farms | $11,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Clean Air Task Force Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Metrohealth Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kids In Danger | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| National History Day Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ideastream | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Film Society | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Shaker Arts Council | $16,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Flying Horse Farms | $11,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Clean Air Task Force Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Metrohealth Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kids In Danger | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| National History Day Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ideastream | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nepal Orphans Home Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Canine Partners for Life | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Romano 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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Romano Family Foundation
- How much does The Romano Family Foundation give?
- The Romano Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $31,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Romano Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (63%), Arts & Culture (20%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
- Who are The Romano Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cleveland Film Society ($35k), Shaker Arts Council ($17k), Flying Horse Farms ($11k).
- Does The Romano Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Romano Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Romano Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Romano Family Foundation based?
- The Romano Family Foundation is based in OH.
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