· Private foundation
The Clara Weiss Fund
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k204 grants · $339k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Union of Concerned Scientists | $15,000 |
| Food & Friends | $15,000 |
| Girl Scouts of North East Ohio | $15,000 |
| Sweet Briar College | $13,000 |
| Food & Friends | $12,500 |
| Lake Erie Nature & Science Center | $10,000 |
| College of Wooster | $10,000 |
| Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill | $10,000 |
| Powhatan School | $10,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $7,500 |
| Carolina Ballet | $6,500 |
| Emanuel Food Pantry | $5,200 |
| Lake Ridge Academy | $5,005 |
| Applewood Centers Inc | $5,000 |
| Arc of Medina County Camp Paradise | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +107%
- FFFOOD & FRIENDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +158%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +12%
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
165 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS 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 BARNS OF ROSE HILL ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Clara Weiss Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clara Weiss Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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