Ohio · Private foundation
The Venner Family 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.
- $348k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Venner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 35 | $328k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $306k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $321k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $256k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $300k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $289k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $311k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $316k | 17% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piano International Assoc of Northern Oh | $250,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Akron Children's Hospital Foundation | $242,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Case Alumni Association Inc | $145,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Alice Lloyd College | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Institute for Justice | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $76,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cleveland Institute of Music | $64,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Family Research Council | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Institute for Humane Studies | $58,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($739k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Venner 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: Akron Community Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Kulas Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · The Welty Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
About The Venner Family Foundation
- How much does The Venner Family Foundation give?
- The Venner Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $348,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Venner Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are The Venner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Piano International Assoc of Northern Oh ($250k), Akron Children's Hospital Foundation ($242k), Case Alumni Association Inc ($145k).
- Does The Venner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Venner Family 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 Venner Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation, Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Venner Family Foundation based?
- The Venner Family Foundation is based in OH.
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