Ohio · Private foundation
The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $350k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,154
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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 | 55 | $345k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $328k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $330k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $366k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $323k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $283k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $482k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $264k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oh-Go | $170,251 | 9 | 14% |
| Sandusky State Theatre Inc | $150,235 | 8 | 2% |
| Sandusky City Schools District | $80,475 | 8 | n/a |
| Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Sandusky Education Foundation | $77,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Firelands Regional Medical Center | $60,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Firelands Habitat for Humanity Inc | $57,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Firelands Symphony Orchestra | $56,835 | 9 | 2% |
| Care & Share Inc of Erie County | $45,351 | 8 | 7% |
| Back to the Wild Inc | $42,653 | 7 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 147 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Mylander Fdn-2001 · Erie County Community Foundation · Sidney Frohman Foundation · Randolph J and Estelle M Dorn Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation · The Twenty First Century Foundation · The Murray & Murray Charitable Foundation · Sam S Stein and Rose Stein Foundation · Patrick Murray and Louise E Murray Charitable Foundation · The Hogrefe Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation give?
- The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), Environment (14%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oh-Go ($170k), Sandusky State Theatre Inc ($150k), Sandusky City Schools District ($80k).
- Does The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Mylander Fdn-2001, Erie County Community Foundation, Sidney Frohman Foundation.
- Where is The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation based?
- The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation is based in OH.
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