Ohio · Private foundation
The South Waite Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $183k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The South Waite Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 10 | $183k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $154k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $153k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $129k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $255,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Recovery Resources | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lawrence School | $62,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Jackson Laboratory | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lakeview Cemetery Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Musical Arts Association | $46,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lake Metroparks | $33,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Children's Museum of Cleveland | $25,000 | 4 | 1% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The South Waite 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.
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How this is measured
About The South Waite Foundation
- How much does The South Waite Foundation give?
- The South Waite Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $183,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The South Waite Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (35%), Arts & Culture (21%), Philanthropy (19%).
- Who are The South Waite Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Western Reserve Land Conservancy ($255k), Recovery Resources ($75k), Lawrence School ($62k).
- Does The South Waite Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The South Waite Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The South Waite Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The South Waite Foundation based?
- The South Waite Foundation is based in OH.
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