Skip to content

Ohio · Private foundation

Luke Manufacturing Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$450
Largest grant, FY2024
$9,200
Organizations funded a year
16 to 20
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$104k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Luke Manufacturing Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$29k53%
FY202320$20k40%
FY202216$18k38%
FY202116$17kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$47kHuman Services$22kScience & Tech$6kRecreation & Sports$3kHousing & Shelter$1kPhilanthropy$1kYouth Development$1kArts & Culture$550Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Scholarship Foundation of Wadsworth$28,10048%
Wadsworth Youth Football Booster Club Inc$1,60040%
Wadsworth City Schools$1,2951n/a
The Wadsworth Older Adults Foundation$30030%
Rittman Chamber of Commerce$25021%
Family Promise of Summit County Inc$20010%
Rittman United Methodist Church$2001n/a
Leadership Medina County$20010%
Wadsworth Community Band Inc$1002n/a
Medina Creative Housing Inc$7510%
Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Luke Manufacturing Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Scholarship Foundation of Wadsworth$28,10048%
Wadsworth Youth Football Booster Club Inc$1,60040%
Wadsworth City Schools$1,2951n/a
The Wadsworth Older Adults Foundation$30030%
Rittman Chamber of Commerce$25021%
Family Promise of Summit County Inc$20010%
Rittman United Methodist Church$2001n/a
Leadership Medina County$20010%
Wadsworth Community Band Inc$1002n/a
Medina Creative Housing Inc$7510%
Inspire Aviation$5010%

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($51k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Luke Manufacturing Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetScholarship Foundation of Wadsworth: $28,100 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetWadsworth Youth Football Booster Club Inc: $1,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Wadsworth Older Adults Foundation: $300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRittman Chamber of Commerce: $250 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Summit County Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Medina County: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedina Creative Housing Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInspire Aviation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Akron Community FoundationOH15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Luke Manufacturing Foundation with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Luke Manufacturing Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Luke Manufacturing Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Luke Manufacturing Foundation

How much does Luke Manufacturing Foundation give?
Luke Manufacturing Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $29,737 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Luke Manufacturing Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Human Services (26%), Science & Tech (7%).
Who are Luke Manufacturing Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Scholarship Foundation of Wadsworth ($28k), Wadsworth Youth Football Booster Club Inc ($2k), Wadsworth City Schools ($1k).
Does Luke Manufacturing Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Luke Manufacturing Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Luke Manufacturing Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Luke Manufacturing Foundation based?
Luke Manufacturing Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Luke Manufacturing’s filings →

More from the funding graph