The Laub Foundation
Rocky River, OH · EIN 34-6526087. Reported 306 grants totalling $1,228,500 to 65 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Laub Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $4,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,500 and $4,500; the smallest was $1,500 and the largest $9,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Museum of Art- Student Programs | Cleveland, OH | $29,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cleveland Institute of Music | Cleveland, OH | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cleveland Institute of Art | Cleveland, OH | $23,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Andrews Osborne Academy | Willoughby, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Beaumont School | Cleveland Hts, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Gilmour Academy | Gates Mills, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Hanna Perkins School | Broadview Hts, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Hathaway Brown Academy | Shaker Hts, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Hawken School | Gates Mills, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Julie Billart School | Cleveland, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lake Ridge Academy | North Ridgeville, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Laurel School | Shaker Hts, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lawrence School | Broadview Hts, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lutheran East High School | Cleveland Hts, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lutheran West High School | Rocky River, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Magnificat High School | Rocky River, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ndcl | Chardon, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | Exeter, NH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| St Edward High School | Lakewood, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| St Ignatius High School | Cleveland, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| St Joseph Academy | Cleveland, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Univeristy School | Hunting Valley, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Urban Community School | Cleveland, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Western Reserve Academy | Cleveland, OH | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | Cleveland, OH | $22,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cleveland Music School Settlement | Cleveland, OH | $22,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Great Lakes Science Center | Cleveland, OH | $22,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Musical Arts Association | Cleveland, OH | $22,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cuyahoga County Community College | Cleveland, OH | $21,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lakeland Community College | Kirtland, OH | $21,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lorain County Community College | Elyria, OH | $21,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cleveland State University | Cleveland, OH | $20,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| College of Wooster | Wooster, OH | $20,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Great Lakes Theatre Festival | Cleveland, OH | $20,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| John Carroll University | University Hts, OH | $20,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lake Erie College | Painesville, OH | $20,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Oberlin College | Oberlin, OH | $20,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ursuline College | Pepper Pike, OH | $20,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Western Reserve Historical Society | Cleveland, OH | $20,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Baldwin Wallace University | Berea, OH | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Berea College | Berea, KY | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cleveland Playhouse | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Playhouse Square Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $19,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Friends of Cleveland School of the Arts | Cleveland, OH | $18,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cleveland Zoological Society | Cleveland, OH | $17,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Notre Dame College | South Euclid, OH | $16,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Beck Center | Lakewood, OH | $15,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lake Erie Nature Center | Cleveland, OH | $15,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Boys Hope Girls Hope | Cleveland, OH | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Contemporary Youth Orchestra | Cleveland, OH | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Verb Ballets | Shaker Heights, OH | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Applewood Center | Cleveland, OH | $14,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| City Club Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $13,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| College Now | Cleveland, OH | $13,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Holden Arboretum | Kirtland, OH | $13,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement | Cleveland, OH | $13,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Candid Midwest | New York, NY | $10,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| US Institute of Peace | Washington, DC | $10,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Eleanor Gerson School | Cleveland, OH | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts of Ne Ohio | Lorain, OH | $9,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Wksu | Kent, OH | $6,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Centers for Family and Children | Cleveland, OH | $5,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Cleveland Signstage Theatre | Cleveland, OH | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Think Forum | Cleveland, OH | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
64 of 65 (98%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 97%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Applewood Center
MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT FOR KIDS - Boys Hope Girls Hope
AID TO UNDERPRIVLEDGED YOUTH
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 159 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 64 | $242,500 | $4,000 |
| 2021 | 63 | $281,000 | $4,500 |
| 2022 | 61 | $239,500 | $4,000 |
| 2023 | 60 | $231,500 | $4,000 |
| 2024 | 58 | $234,000 | $4,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 95% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal 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 foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Laub Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 19655 Parklane Drive, Rocky River, OH, 44116. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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