· Private foundation
Jo Woodward Solem Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $50,000 |
| WICK POETRY CENTER - KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| KEVIN COLEMAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| AXXESS FAMILY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL ARTISTRY | $5,660 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $3,000 |
| CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS FIGHTING HUNGER | $2,500 |
| RAVENNA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES | $1,542 |
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 (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UHUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS3× · 2023–2025 · $140k
- TCTHE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $131k · revenue +55% · 27% of their budget
- WPWICK POETRY CENTER - KENT STATE UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $95k
Funded once
- KHKENT HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $160k · revenue -52% · 55% of their budget
- FCFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- CVCuyahoga Valley Farmers Marketsone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
To enforce laws preventing cruelty to animals and to provide affective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Service to needy children.
To promote the healthy development of children and families through quality behavioral and mental health services, community partnerships and advocacy.
Community health and well being advocate
Mission is to provide food to in need families of otsego county as well as weekend food to in need children
Neighborhood health care, inc. is a network of community health centers committed to delivering high-quality, affordable primary, preventive, and supplemental healthcare. since 1980, nhc has been serving families on the west side of…
Cleveland public market corporations mission is to preserve the city's public market tradition while making the local food system more accessible, equitable, and diverse.
Provide emergency food for those in need.
The prevention of cruelty to animals in holmes county, ohio through education and awareness.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 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 KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cuyahoga Valley Farmers Markets ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jo Woodward Solem Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jo Woodward Solem Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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