· Private foundation
Ervin & Marie Wilkof Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ARTS IN STARK | $5,000 |
| CANTON MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| BERNARD & SANFORD WILKOF POST #73 | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| CANTON JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION | $2,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ervin & Marie Wilkof Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ervin & Marie Wilkof Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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