· Private foundation
The Sk Wellman Foundation
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 $10k86 grants · $256k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS - RAINBOW | $10,000 |
| MALACHI HOUSE | $8,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF CLEVELAND | $8,000 |
| CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $8,000 |
| CLEVELAND METROPARKS | $7,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| BELLEFAIRE | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE | $5,000 |
| FIELDSTONE FARM- THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES | $5,000 |
| MEDWISHMEDWORKS | $5,000 |
| EDEN HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY | $4,000 |
| SILVER FUR K9 RESCUE & RETIREMENT | $4,000 |
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, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
114 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2025, 39 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- CRCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +38%
- HOHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +8%
- MHMALACHI HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- TRTHERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
- EBELIZA BRYANT CENTERone grant, 2017 · $4k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +26%
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
The mission of united cerebral palsy is to empower children and adults with disabilities to advance their independence, productivity and inclusion in the community.
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
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…
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
The hospital council of northwest ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the…
As mandated by the federal older americans act and ohio law, the mission of the long term care ombudsman program is to seek the resolution of problems and advocate for the rights of the home care consumers and residents of long- term care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Silver Fur K9 Rescue and Retirement. 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 47 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 157 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
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 CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL NURSING INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDWISH MEDWORKS ↗
- Who funds LIFEACT ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF LITERACY ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The George Gund Foundation · Community West Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Sam J Frankino 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 Sk Wellman Foundation 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.
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