Ohio · Private foundation
The Clara Weiss Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $449k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 213
- Grants FY2025
- 193
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 183 to 219
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 27
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations The Clara Weiss Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 204 | $449k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 193 | $506k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 202 | $476k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 219 | $444k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 208 | $410k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 183 | $333k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 199 | $361k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 196 | $389k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill Inc | $165,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Food & Friends Inc | $137,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $137,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of North East Ohio | $127,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Sweet Briar Institute | $112,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lake Erie Nature and Science Center | $104,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The College of Wooster | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pretrial Justice Institute | $63,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Powhatan School Inc | $54,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Lake Ridge Academy | $45,010 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 176 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 142 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Clara Weiss Fund supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
About The Clara Weiss Fund
- How much does The Clara Weiss Fund give?
- The Clara Weiss Fund reported 213 grants totaling $449,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 183 and 219 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Clara Weiss Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Clara Weiss Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill Inc ($165k), Food & Friends Inc ($138k), The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc ($138k).
- Does The Clara Weiss Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Clara Weiss Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Clara Weiss Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of Clarke County Foundation, Akron Community Foundation, The Westfield Insurance Foundation.
- Where is The Clara Weiss Fund based?
- The Clara Weiss Fund is based in OH.
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