Funding search · EIN 341744726 · Richmond Heights, OH

The Lerner Foundation

Name: The Lerner Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

95
grants reported: $6.2M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $20,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Jewish Federation of Cleveland4 grants · $2.1M
Cleveland Orchestra4 grants · $1.4M
Case Western Reserve University2 grants · $601,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center4 grants · $400,000
United Way of Greater Cleveland4 grants · $230,000
Greater Cleveland Food Bank4 grants · $200,000
Cleveland Clinic - Velosano4 grants · $200,000
Cleveland Clinic Children'S4 grants · $195,200
World Jewish Congress4 grants · $185,000
Cleveland Kosher Food Pantry2 grants · $100,000

Giving over time

$1.6M

2022

$1.8M

2023

$1.4M

2024

$1.4M

2025

Grant history

All 95 reported grants, largest first.

$600,000
Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operations
$510,000
Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations
$500,000
Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2025
General operations
$500,000
Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2024
General operations
$354,500
Cleveland Orchestra · Cleveland, OH · 2025
General operations
$350,000
Cleveland Orchestra · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operations
$350,000
Cleveland Orchestra · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations
$344,225
Cleveland Orchestra · Cleveland, OH · 2024
General operations
$301,000
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations
$300,000
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operations
$100,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2025
General operations
$100,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2024
General operations
$100,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2023
General operations
$100,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2022
General operations
$75,000
Cleveland Clinic Children'S · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operations
$60,000
United Way of Greater Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2024
General operations
$60,000
United Way of Greater Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operations
$60,000
United Way of Greater Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations
$50,000
Cleveland Clinic - Velosano · Beachwood, OH · 2025
General operations
$50,000
Greater Cleveland Food Bank · Cleveland, OH · 2025
General operations
$50,000
United Way of Greater Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2025
General operations
$50,000
World Jewish Congress · New York, NY · 2025
General operations
$50,000
Cleveland Clinic - Velosano · Beachwood, OH · 2024
General operations
$50,000
Greater Cleveland Food Bank · Cleveland, OH · 2024
General operations
$50,000
The Park Snyagogue · Pepper Pike, OH · 2024
General operations
$50,000
World Jewish Congress · New York, NY · 2024
General operations
$50,000
Cleveland Clinic - Velosano · Beachwood, OH · 2023
General operations
$50,000
Cleveland Kosher Food Pantry · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operations
$50,000
Greater Cleveland Food Bank · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operations
$50,000
World Jewish Congress · New York, NY · 2023
General operations
$50,000
Cleveland Clinic - Velosano · Beachwood, OH · 2022
General operations
$50,000
Cleveland Kosher Food Pantry · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations
$50,000
Greater Cleveland Food Bank · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations
$48,400
Cleveland Clinic Children'S · Cleveland, OH · 2025
General operations
$48,400
Cleveland Clinic Children'S · Cleveland, OH · 2024
General operations
$35,000
World Jewish Congress · New York, NY · 2022
General operations
$25,000
Cedars-Sinai · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General operations
$25,000
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage · Beachwood, OH · 2025
General operations
$25,000
American Red Cross · Cleveland, OH · 2024
General operations
$25,000
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2024
General operations
$25,000
US Holocaust Memorial Museum · Washington, DC · 2024
General operations
$25,000
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations
$24,500
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2025
General operations
$24,500
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operations
$23,400
Cleveland Clinic Children'S · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations
$20,000
Foundation for Art & Preservation in Embassies · Washington, DC · 2025
General operations
$20,000
Foundation for Art & Preservation in Embassies · Washington, DC · 2024
General operations
$20,000
Foundation for Art & Preservation in Embassies · Washington, DC · 2023
General operations
$20,000
Foundation for Art & Preservation in Embassies · Washington, DC · 2022
General operations
$20,000
The Temple-Tifereth Israel · Beachwood, OH · 2022
General operations
$15,000
Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Pain Management · Cleveland, OH · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Bikur Cholim · Cleveland Heights, OH · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Down Syndrome Achieves · Dublin, OH · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Homes for Life Foundation · Wilmington, DE · 2025
General operations
$10,000
US Holocaust Memorial Museum · Washington, DC · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Cleveland Ballet · Cleveland, OH · 2024
General operations
$10,000
The Temple-Tifereth Israel · Beachwood, OH · 2023
General operations
$10,000
Cleveland Foundation · Shaker Hts, OH · 2022
General operations
$10,000
New York Historical Society Museum Library · New York, NY · 2022
General operations
$8,000
Lifeline Pilots · Peoria, IL · 2025
General operations
$8,000
Lifeline Pilots · Peoria, IL · 2024
General operations
$8,000
Lifeline Pilots · Peoria, IL · 2023
General operations
$7,500
Crohn'S & Colitis Foundation · Independence, OH · 2023
General operations
$7,500
Lifeline Pilots · Peoria, IL · 2022
General operations
$5,000
The Temple-Tifereth Israel · Beachwood, OH · 2025
General operations
$5,000
Creative Living for Life · Medina, OH · 2024
General operations
$5,000
The Little Heroes · Cleveland, OH · 2024
General operations
$5,000
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous · West Orange, NJ · 2023
General operations
$5,000
The Negev Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operations
$5,000
US Holocaust Memorial Museum · Washington, DC · 2023
General operations
$5,000
Wags 4 Kids · Berea, OH · 2023
General operations
$5,000
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous · West Orange, NJ · 2022
General operations
$4,000
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage · Beachwood, OH · 2023
General operations
$3,600
US Holocaust Memorial Museum · Washington, DC · 2022
General operations
$3,000
Great Lakes Science Center · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operations
$2,500
Crohn'S & Colitis Foundation · Independence, OH · 2025
General operations
$2,500
Crohn'S & Colitis Foundation · Independence, OH · 2024
General operations
$2,500
Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland · Beachwood, OH · 2023
General operations
$2,500
Great Lakes Science Center · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations
$2,500
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage · Beachwood, OH · 2022
General operations
$2,500
Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland · Beachwood, OH · 2022
General operations
$2,000
Hunting Valley Foundation · Hunting Valley, OH · 2025
General operations
$2,000
Autism Speaks · Princeton, NJ · 2022
General operations
$2,000
The Negev Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations
$1,800
American Friends of Magen David Adom · Northbrook, IL · 2023
General operations
$1,000
Na'Amat USA · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General operations
$1,000
Wags 4 Kids · Berea, OH · 2025
General operations
$1,000
Western Reserve Historical Society · Cleveland, OH · 2025
General operations
$1,000
In Steps With Horses · Chesterland, OH · 2024
General operations
$1,000
American Friends of Magen David Adom · Northbrook, IL · 2022
General operations
$900
Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland · Beachwood, OH · 2025
General operations
$900
Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland · Beachwood, OH · 2024
General operations
$600
In Steps With Horses · Chesterland, OH · 2025
General operations
$600
In Steps With Horses · Chesterland, OH · 2023
General operations
$360
Telshe Yeshiva · Wickliffe, OH · 2025
General operations

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.