The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland Clinic is a large nonprofit academic medical center headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio that provides patient care, conducts medical research, and educates health professionals. The official site publishes clinical services, research and clinical trials information, giving/program pages, news, and locations.
Source: Website · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A nonprofit with an Ohio-based community health or related social-service mission, especially organizations with existing ties or collaborative projects with the funder or its local partners.
Good Fit
- • Programmatic focus on health, community health services, or community support in Ohio.
- • Demonstrated local partnerships or past collaboration with the funder or its affiliates.
- • Capacity to manage grants that range from modest operating awards to multi‑hundred‑thousand dollar grants.
- • Clear articulation of community impact and alignment with the foundation’s local priorities.
Geography
Observed giving is heavily concentrated in the home state: roughly 96% of dollars went to Ohio recipients in the latest year, despite grants touching organizations in about a dozen states.
Recipient Variety
The latest year shows funding to 100 distinct recipients with a substantial number of new grantees (53), indicating a broad and diverse recipient set even though dollars are financially concentrated among a few large local recipients.
New Applicants
Direct evidence of new entrants is strong (53 new recipients in the latest year and 76 new recipients the prior year), and public contact/giving channels exist, so unfamiliar organizations appear plausibly able to enter the portfolio despite absence of formal application guidelines.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
