Foundations that fund Arts & Humanities in Ohio
291 grantmakers on record have funded arts & humanities work in Ohio, according to the IRS filings they submit themselves. Here is what those filings say about how they give.
| Grantmakers on record | 291 |
|---|---|
| Accept unsolicited applications | 105 |
| Typical grant range | $2,500 to $20,000 |
| Median grant | $10,000 |
| Grants recorded | 32,211 |
| Combined giving on file | $2.9 billion |
| Most recent filing year | 2025 |
What this tells you
36% of them say in their filings that they accept unsolicited applications, which is noticeably more open than the 26% we see across this data as a whole. A cold approach here is more likely to be read than it is in most places.
The money is concentrated: the average grant across all 32,211 payments is far larger than the $10,000 the typical funder gives, which means a small number of very large grants dominate the total. Most organizations here are competing for the $2,500 to $20,000 band, not the headline figure.
25% are public charities that make grants, such as community foundations, rather than private foundations. They are easy to miss because they file a Form 990 rather than a 990-PF, and most foundation directories are built around the 990-PF.
How to read these numbers
The typical grant range is the middle half of what these funders give: a quarter give less than $2,500 on average and a quarter give more than $20,000. It is drawn from 290 funders who itemized their grants, so it describes what they actually paid rather than what they say they will consider.
Which of them would fund your work?
That is the part this page cannot answer. Praenum reads your organization's mission and ranks the grantmakers whose own filings show they fund work like yours, then emails you a short list every Tuesday. It also reads your own IRS filing, so it knows which foundations have already funded you.
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