· Private foundation
The Clara Weiss Fund
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k204 grants · $339k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Food & Friends | $15,000 |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | $15,000 |
| Girl Scouts of North East Ohio | $15,000 |
| Sweet Briar College | $13,000 |
| Food & Friends | $12,500 |
| Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill | $10,000 |
| Lake Erie Nature & Science Center | $10,000 |
| College of Wooster | $10,000 |
| Powhatan School | $10,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $7,500 |
| Carolina Ballet | $6,500 |
| Emanuel Food Pantry | $5,200 |
| Lake Ridge Academy | $5,005 |
| Hope & Healing Survivor Resource Center | $5,000 |
| Arc of Medina County Camp Paradise | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
276 repeat relationships — 192 still active in FY2025, 84 since wound down; 12 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TCTRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +107%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +12%- FFFOOD & FRIENDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- TCTruro Center for the Arts Capital Campone grant, 2023 · $30k
- EJEnders John H Fire CO & Rescueone grant, 2017 · $3k
- DWDoctors without Borders 13-3433452one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Winchester Little Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
165 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. 165 of the 320 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds POWHATAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BARNS OF ROSE HILL ↗
- Who funds 4-H CAMP CLIFTON ↗
- Who funds APPLEWOOD CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF CLARKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEDINA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WOODSTOCK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HO MITA KODA FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · The Swagelok Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · United Way of Summit and Medina · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · The Hillier Family Foundation · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
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 The Clara Weiss Fund 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.
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.