Ohio · Private foundation
Third Federal Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2024
- 111
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $430,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 94 to 125
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $28M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Third Federal Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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 | 90 | $3.9M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 111 | $4.7M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 119 | $5.2M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 94 | $4.4M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 107 | $3.9M | 16% |
| FY2019 | 122 | $4.2M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 117 | $4.5M | 24% |
| FY2017 | 125 | $4.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Settlement Inc | $3,248,704 | 8 | 12% |
| Cleveland Central Catholic High School | $2,854,885 | 8 | n/a |
| Case Western Reserve University | $2,764,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland | $1,437,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Slavic Village Development | $1,345,239 | 8 | 12% |
| The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland | $1,064,070 | 8 | 19% |
| City Year Inc | $891,231 | 8 | 0% |
| Youth Opportunities Unlimited | $705,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Heidelberg University | $700,000 | 4 | 0% |
| America Scores Cleveland | $680,500 | 8 | 17% |
Show all 182 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Third Federal Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 156 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 George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Murphy Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland
How this is measured
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About Third Federal Foundation
- How much does Third Federal Foundation give?
- Third Federal Foundation reported 91 grants totaling $3,928,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 94 and 125 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Third Federal Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (15%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Third Federal Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University Settlement Inc ($3.2M), Cleveland Central Catholic High School ($2.9M), Case Western Reserve University ($2.8M).
- Does Third Federal Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Third Federal Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Third Federal 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 Third Federal Foundation based?
- Third Federal Foundation is based in OH.
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