How much did THE WEDGE BLOCK FOUNDATION ICA grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE WEDGE BLOCK FOUNDATION ICA’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

greatercleveland

2023

greatercleveland

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k20 grants · $241k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

RESOURCE CLEVELAND$20,000
COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS$15,000
FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR$15,000
HIRAM HOUSE CAMP$15,000
THE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER CLE$15,000
JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING$15,000
NAMI GREATER CLEVELAND$15,000
P A L S FOR HEALING$11,000
SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
SALAAM CLINIC$10,000
LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC$10,000
B RILEY SOBER HOUSE$10,000
GETTING TO WE$10,000
CENTER FOR ARTS - INSPIRED LEARNING$10,000
CANOPY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$723k · 17 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$723k

$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+17%

Still filing today

71%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

CT
COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS
6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +115%
SH
SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY
6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +53%
FF
FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR
3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +56%

Funded once

RV
RESCUE VILLAGE
one grant, 2021 · $15k
BR
BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ON AGING
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -2%
WR
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVACY
one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Cleveland Museum of Art

To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.

Arts & Culture

Nami Mid-Ohio

To improve the quality of life and ensure dignity and respect for persons with serious mental illness, and offer support to their families and close friends.

Human Services

Nami of Southwest Ohio

Provide education, support and advocacy to those affected by mental illness.

Health

Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health

Cleveland Rape Crisis Center

The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.

Health

Literary Cleveland

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.

Education

Nami of Richland County Ohio

Our mission is to improve the quality of life, ensure dignity and respect for persons with mental illness, and to support their families.

Health

Cleveland Public Theatre Inc

To raise consciousness and nurture compassion through ground-breaking performances and life-changing educational programs

Arts & Culture

Culture Works

Culture works is the funding, advocacy, and service organization that passionately inspires, supports, and sustains arts and culture in the dayton region.

Arts & Culture

Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services

Cleveland School of the Arts

The mission is to create an environment that empowers children with the opportunity to achieve excellence through an arts education.

Arts & Culture

Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier children's mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Therapy Studio and the most unlike its peers is Shaker Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

11%

1,217/10,857

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.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

19/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$415,000Health$218,000Arts & Culture$90,000Human Services$55,000Education$45,000Youth Development$25,000Crime & Legal$15,000

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.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Business Volunteers Unlimited · Edwin D Northrup II Fund · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation THE WEDGE BLOCK FOUNDATION ICA 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 820669525 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Wedge Block Foundation Ica?

Find your warmest path to The Wedge Block Foundation Ica through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE WEDGE BLOCK FOUNDATION ICA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wedge Block Foundation Ica?

More from the funding graph

THE WEDGE BLOCK FOUNDATION ICA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wedge Block Foundation Ica?

More from the funding graph