Community Fund Management
Middleburg Heights, OH · EIN 34-1801905. Reported 61 grants totalling $785,177 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Community Fund Management, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P80Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 3% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $16,000; the smallest was $6,103 and the largest $27,370. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living Inc | Lancaster, OH | $27,370 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Als Association Northern Ohio Chapter | Independence, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Autism Society of Greater Akron | Akron, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bikur Cholim | Cleveland Hts, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brain Injury Association of Ohio Inc | Columbus, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cal Ripken SR Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Courageous Community Services Inc | Whitehouse, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Flat Rock Childrens Home of the United Methodist Church | Flat Rock, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Good Works Farm | Waynesville, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Help Foundation Inc | Euclid, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ken Anderson Alliance | Cincinnati, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Luther Home of Mercy Foundation | Williston, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mount Aloysius Corp | New Lexington, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Coast Community Homes Inc | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Playhouse Square Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Arc of Allen County | Lima, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| U-Co Industries Inc | Marysville, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Visionaries and Voices | Cincinnati, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Treehouse Ohio | Bedford, OH | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Roots Corp | Mount Vernon, OH | $18,495 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lifecare Alliance | Columbus, OH | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Toledo Zoological Society | Toledo, OH | $15,740 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Golden String Inc | Youngstown, OH | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Solon Community Living Inc | Solon, OH | $15,155 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Goodwill Industries of Central Ohio Inc | Columbus, OH | $15,020 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Art Sparks | Cuyahoga Fls, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Filling Home Foundation | Napoleon, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wasco Inc | Marietta, OH | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arc of Ohio Inc | Columbus, OH | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Holmes Center for the Arts Ltd | Millersburg, OH | $10,568 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Innovative Opportunities Inc | Worthington, OH | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Achievement Center for Children | Westlake, OH | $10,065 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adult Guardianship Services | Akron, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Belco Works Inc | St Clairsvle, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blossom Hill Inc | Westlake, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boundless Strategic Resources Inc | Worthington, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Down Syndrome Association of Northeast Ohio | Independence, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dreams on Horseback | Blacklick, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Lakewood, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hope Homes Foundation Inc | Stow, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Integrated Community Solutions Inc | Medina, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Licking County Family YMCA | Newark, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| REC2CONNECT Foundation | Independence, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Dayton | Dayton, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Disability Services Inc | Akron, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Cleveland Inc | Cleveland, OH | $9,947 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio | Wooster, OH | $9,924 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sarahs Friends Inc | Bryan, OH | $9,340 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Choices in Community Living Inc | Dayton, OH | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Valley Art Center Inc | Chagrin Falls, OH | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center | Cleveland, OH | $8,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| C L I Incorporated | Norwalk, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center | Cleveland, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Voices of Change 2018 | Hinckley, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Roads to Recovery | Fairborn, OH | $6,103 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
6 of 55 (11%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living Inc
TO SUPPORT THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT AND RAMPS - Mount Aloysius Corp
TO SUPPORT THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT - The Arc of Allen County
PLAYGROUND ENTRANCE, SHOWER - Ken Anderson Alliance
UPGRADE FRONT ENTRANCE-ADA COMPLIANT - Als Association Northern Ohio Chapter
PAY CO-PAYS AND INCREASE DEVICE LOAN CLOSET FOR AAC DEVICES. - Flatrock Homes Inc
ACCESSIBLE PLAYGROUND/OUTDOOR SPACE ON MAIN CAMPUS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | $161,391 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 17 | $213,011 | $10,568 |
| 2023 | 7 | $85,945 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 24 | $324,830 | $10,032 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Community Fund Management's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 17900 Jefferson Park 102, Middleburg Heights, OH, 44130.
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