Ohio · Private foundation
Ella Weiss Educational Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $7k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $175
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,450
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $621k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Ella Weiss Educational Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $7k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $14k | 69% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $32k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $32k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $32k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $31k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $32k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $32k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent State University | $28,250 | 5 | n/a |
| Ohio Northern University | $16,525 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Dayton | $13,175 | 5 | 0% |
| Ashland University | $9,375 | 5 | 0% |
| Otterbein University | $9,325 | 5 | 0% |
| Walsh University Inc | $7,825 | 4 | 0% |
| Cedarville University | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Muskingum University | $2,825 | 2 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Youngstown State University Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent State University | $28,250 | 5 | n/a |
| Ohio Northern University | $16,525 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Dayton | $13,175 | 5 | 0% |
| Ashland University | $9,375 | 5 | 0% |
| Otterbein University | $9,325 | 5 | 0% |
| Walsh University Inc | $7,825 | 4 | 0% |
| Cedarville University | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Muskingum University | $2,825 | 2 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Youngstown State University Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Able - Wayne County Schools Career Center | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Marietta College | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Rio Grande | $475 | 2 | 0% |
| Central Ohio Technical College | $475 | 2 | n/a |
| Mount Vernon Nazarene University | $450 | 1 | 0% |
| The University of Findlay | $325 | 2 | 0% |
| Malone University | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Heidelberg University | $175 | 1 | 0% |
| Baldwin Wallace University | $150 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington State College of Ohio | $150 | 1 | n/a |
| Miami University | $150 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Erie College | $150 | 1 | 0% |
| Ohio Dominican University | $150 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ella Weiss Educational Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Columbus Foundation · Clapper Scholarship Fund · Verna M Griffee Trust · Shelly Family Foundation · A K Stephenson Fdn Char Tr Agy · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Coshocton Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Ann McConahay Educational Foundation · The Pearce Foundation
How this is measured
About Ella Weiss Educational Fund
- How much does Ella Weiss Educational Fund give?
- Ella Weiss Educational Fund reported 16 grants totaling $7,175 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ella Weiss Educational Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Ella Weiss Educational Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kent State University ($28k), Ohio Northern University ($17k), University of Dayton ($13k).
- Does Ella Weiss Educational Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ella Weiss Educational Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ella Weiss Educational Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust, The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges, Columbus Foundation.
- Where is Ella Weiss Educational Fund based?
- Ella Weiss Educational Fund is based in OH.
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