Ohio · Private foundation
The Sears Swetland Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $318k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations The Sears Swetland Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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 | 47 | $318k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $319k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $279k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $280k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $335k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $305k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $292k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $273k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $290,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Institute of Art | $77,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Ohio Environmental Council | $65,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc | $64,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $58,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Contemporary Art | $55,700 | 4 | 2% |
| Midcoast Conservancy | $47,000 | 6 | 1% |
| University Circle Incorporated | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| College Now Greater Cleveland Inc | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sears Swetland 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 · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Murphy Family Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Abington Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Sears Swetland Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Sears Swetland Family Foundation
- How much does The Sears Swetland Family Foundation give?
- The Sears Swetland Family Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $318,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sears Swetland Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (41%), Arts & Culture (19%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Sears Swetland Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Western Reserve Land Conservancy ($290k), Cleveland Museum of Natural History ($95k), The Cleveland Institute of Art ($77k).
- Does The Sears Swetland Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sears Swetland Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sears Swetland Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
- Where is The Sears Swetland Family Foundation based?
- The Sears Swetland Family Foundation is based in OH.
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