· Private foundation
Ida B Wells 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSE OF REFUGE INC | $1,050 |
| OHIO CITY INC | $1,000 |
| NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYINTERRELIGIOUS TASK FORCE | $250 |
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 (FY20–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LWLEGAL WORKS INC4× · 2019–2023 · $4k · revenue +426%
- NONORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS2× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +108%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- HDHOW DO WE SUSTAINone grant, 2022 · $2k
- RRENOVAREone grant, 2023 · $2k
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELANDone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +10%
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
The mission of Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Inc., (the League) is a community-based organization focused on eliminating the racial, economic, and societal barriers that prevent Black Americans and other underrepresented/underserved…
Occd's purpose is to develop, implement and improve federal, state and local programs for community development and to develop and improve the professional standards and practices of all phases of public administration which are related…
To advocate and educate on behalf of our members to increase the quality and supply of affordable housing in the state of ohio, and to provide our members with current legislative awareness, a forum for voicing legislative and programmatic…
To promote the common good and general welfare of ohioans.
To coordinate efforts of corporations in the State of Ohio to increase the amount of purchases of goods and services from minority owned companies; to provide educational, managerial and technical assistance to minority companies.
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 14 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 LEGAL WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds ST CLAIR SUPERIOR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO CITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA THREADS INC ↗
- Who funds Americans Making Immigrants Safe ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Community West Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ida B Wells Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ida B Wells Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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