· Private foundation
Edward & Ruth Wilkof Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $12,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND | $12,000 |
| THE ROOTS OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $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 |
| STARK COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE | $1,000 |
| AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
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%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
To build / maintain a strong and united jewish community in order to ensure the continuity of the jewish people. the federation is the central agency for meeting jewish needs and articulating jewish concerns in the capital region, in…
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.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
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.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Stark County Hunger Task Force Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- 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 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Edward & Ruth Wilkof Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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