· Private foundation
The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation
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 $10k58 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF SANDUSKY | $30,000 |
| CAMBELL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| OHGO | $20,000 |
| SANDUSKY BLUE STREAK BOOSTERS CLUB | $15,000 |
| ERIE CO PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE | $14,000 |
| MARGARETTA MIDDLE SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| OHGO | $10,000 |
| SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| CITY OF SANDUSKY | $10,000 |
| FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| ERIE RESIDENTIAL LIVING | $6,907 |
| ERIE COUNTY CASA PROGRAM | $6,000 |
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, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 92%.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
94 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 51 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OOH-GO9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue ×13
- SSSANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +101%
- BGBowling Green State University Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- GEGREATER ERIE CO MARKETING GROUP CHRone grant, 2024 · $20k
- ECEIRE COUNTY BOARD OF DEVELOPMENTALone grant, 2018 · $12k
- CACARE AND SHAREone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.
A non-profit organization dedicated to the protection, restoration, enhancement, and sustainable development of the lake erie watershed in pennsylvania.
To develop and implement a marketing plan to grow the region's tourism economy through promotion of the region and thereby increase visitor spending in the region.
To lead erie's economic evolution through access, advocacy and awareness.
The erie community foundation works to improve the quality of life for all in our region by evaluating and addressing community issues, building permanent charitable endowments, and by promoting philanthropic and community leadership.
To increase the organized capacity for people to care for one another.
To provide emergency medical services with advanced and basic life support capabilities, ambulance transportation services, and providing trained personnel to assist local fire departments.
The mission of the Erie Chamber of Commerce is to unite community and commerce
Erie Independence House, Inc. (EIH) exists to enhance and promote independence in people with disabilities through the provision of accessible, affordable, adaptive housing necessary for them to lead productive, independent lives. We offer…
To provide support to the terminally ill
Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.
How this is measured
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 204 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 OH-GO ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CARE & SHARE INC OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BACK TO THE WILD INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY BLUE STREAK BOOSTERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CO INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES FKA CANCER SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ERIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Erie Residential Living Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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