· Private foundation
Edward & Ruth Wilkof Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC | $25,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND | $12,000 |
| CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $12,000 |
| THE ROOTS OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $7,500 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| THE ELLA PROJECT | $5,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLAS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD | $1,500 |
| BERNARD & SANFORD WILKOF POST #73 | $1,250 |
| CANTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER STARK COUNTY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF WWOZ INC9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +34%
- NONEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +100%
- NONEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- LFLAW FORWARD INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +5%
- SMSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDAone grant, 2017 · $8k
SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -77%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
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How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds Roots of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds Canton Jewish Community Federation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds Stark County Hunger Task Force Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds LAW FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELLA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ervin & Marie Wilkof Foundation · Cahn Family Foundation · Stark Community Foundation · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Goldring Family Foundation · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward & Ruth Wilkof Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward & Ruth Wilkof Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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