· Private foundation
Ervin & Marie Wilkof Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CARING AND SERVING TOGETHER | $60,000 |
| WALSH UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| STARK STATE COLLEGE | $10,251 |
| JRC | $10,000 |
| BERNARD & SANFORD WILKOF POST #73 | $5,000 |
| ARTS IN STARK | $5,000 |
| CANTON MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| CANTON JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SSSTARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $283k · revenue +271%
- CACaring and Serving Together - CAST7× · 2018–2024 · $127k · revenue +268%
- WUWalsh University Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TFTopucu Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +88% · 38% of their budget
- PCPREGNANCY CHOICESone grant, 2019 · $4k
- BSBERNARD SANFORD WILKOF POST 73one grant, 2017 · $2k
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 Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau is to attract and engage visitors, serve and educate regional tourisim partners, and generate economic growth for the community through travel and tourism development.
Support of the Stark County District Library
The foundation supports scholarships and grants for the educational purposes of stark county community unit school district no. 100
Advancement of the economic, industrial, professional, cultural and civic welfare of stark county and its surrounding region and the promotion and preservation of the competitive free enterprise system.
The Massillon WestStark Chamber of Commerce exists to develop, enhance, and represent business, promote economic growth, and improve the quality of life for our community.
Our vision is to create a culture of high expectations for behavior and academics through rigorous, research-based curricula and a focus on achievement. It is our goal that Canton College Preparatory School scholars will attend a college…
SCMWDP supports Stark County manufacturers' growth and expansion by offering seamless career pathways, delivering inclusive training and education, and sharing best practices within the manufacturing workforce development community:…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
The Columbus State University Foundation supports educational excellence and the expansion of educational opportunities at Columbus State University. The Foundation attracts, receives, invests, manages, and expends gifts and other…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
Starr Library shall provide access to the highest quality library services and programming, enriching our lives and building community.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts in Stark and the most unlike its peers is Topucu Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 STARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Caring and Serving Together - CAST ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds Canton Jewish Community Federation ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Canton Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Topucu Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds STARK COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY ↗
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: Stark Community Foundation · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Foundation of Canton · Edward & Ruth Wilkof Foundation · Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable · The Ward J and Joy A Timken Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Biery Family Foundation Inc · Hoover W Henry Fund Ta · Ada C Rank & Helen J Rank Charitable
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 Ervin & Marie 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.
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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