Ohio · Private foundation
The Trzcinski Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Trzcinski Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $1.7M | 83% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $3.2M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $887k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $1.2M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.3M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.3M | 73% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $784k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Aquinas College | $1,017,496 | 3 | 2% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $920,240 | 4 | 0% |
| Benedictine High School Incorporated | $666,138 | 3 | n/a |
| Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Inc | $650,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Peace Church | $510,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Cecilia Congregation | $350,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $226,859 | 1 | 0% |
| Franciscan Sisters of Chicago | $204,371 | 1 | n/a |
| The Road to Hope Inc | $115,500 | 2 | 3% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $105,000 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Aquinas College | $1,017,496 | 3 | 2% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $920,240 | 4 | 0% |
| Benedictine High School Incorporated | $666,138 | 3 | n/a |
| Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Inc | $650,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Peace Church | $510,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Cecilia Congregation | $350,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $226,859 | 1 | 0% |
| Franciscan Sisters of Chicago | $204,371 | 1 | n/a |
| The Road to Hope Inc | $115,500 | 2 | 3% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $105,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Holy Family Church | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cato Institute | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Sanctuary Museum Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 87% |
| Jesuit Retreat House of Cleveland Jesuit Retreat | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Word on Fire Catholic Ministries | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Institute of World Politics | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Independent Institute | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bill of Rights Institute | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Holy Family Parish | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Opportunity Parish Ecumenical Neighborhood Ministry | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity Inc | $18,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Word Among US Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Come and See Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Atlas Economic Research Foundation | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornerstone of Hope Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grove City College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Policy Roundtable | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cleveland Opera Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Trzcinski Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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 Cleveland Foundation · The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · Community West Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About The Trzcinski Foundation
- How much does The Trzcinski Foundation give?
- The Trzcinski Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $1,720,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Trzcinski Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Education (33%), Civil Rights (8%).
- Who are The Trzcinski Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Thomas Aquinas College ($1.0M), Alliance Defending Freedom ($920k), Benedictine High School Incorporated ($666k).
- Does The Trzcinski Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Trzcinski Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Trzcinski Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation, Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust.
- Where is The Trzcinski Foundation based?
- The Trzcinski Foundation is based in OH.
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