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The Wedge Block Foundation Ica

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$246k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$333kArts & Culture$135kEnvironment$115kHuman Services$95kRecreation & Sports$70kCivil Rights$45kYouth Development$30kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 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
1
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESOURCE CLEVELAND$20,000
HIRAM HOUSE CAMP$15,000
JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING$15,000
NAMI GREATER CLEVELAND$15,000
THE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER CLE$15,000
COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS$15,000
FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR$15,000
P A L S FOR HEALING$11,000
CENTER FOR ARTS - INSPIRED LEARNING$10,000
LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC$10,000
CANOPY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC$10,000
B RILEY SOBER HOUSE$10,000
NAALEH CLEVELAND INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ART THERAPY STUDIO$10,000
02The need
03

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, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 11%LIGHT AFTER LOSS: $5k → 13%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ON AGING: $10k → 17%RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $20k → 17%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $5k → 17%GENDERSPHERE: $5k → 17%CORNERTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%CORNERTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%GETTING TO WE: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$738k · 18 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$738k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+36%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsOther

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 INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +115%
  • FF
    FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +19%
  • LG
    LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • BR
    BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -37%
  • TF
    TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +102%

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.

1
Achievement Centers for Children

Our mission is to empower children and adults with disabilities and (continued on schedule o) their families to achieve their greatest potential through holistic and family-focused services.

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2
Pathway Caring for Children

Our mission is to help children and families realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption, and mental health. we serve over 1,700 children and families in 14 northeast ohio counties.

Health
3
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
4
Lead Ohio

At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.

Education
5
Childrens Center

The mission of childrens center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.

Crime & Legal
6
Connecting for Kids of Westlake Oh

Connecting for kids is a local nonprofit organization with a mission to provide resources, support and community to families in northeast ohio who have concerns about their child. the organization serve all families, including those…

Youth Development
7
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

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

Health
8
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology

Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…

Arts & Culture
9
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…

Human Services
10
Bloom Art and Integrated Therapies Inc

Focused on encouraging a creative, healthy, and strong community. the practitioners at bloom integrate counseling and art therapy to serve the community and provide access to art for healing, growth, regulation, and expression. the primary…

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11
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
12
The Collaborative to End Human Trafficking

The mission of the collaborative is to lead, empower and connect our community to eradicate human trafficking.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Naaleh Cleveland Inc. 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 22 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%33%5–10yr16%11%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr19%15%35–55yr19%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%23%5–10yr16%8%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr19%20%35–55yr19%33%55yr+

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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
1,299/9,791

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS INC — $65,000 · HealthCOURAGE TO CAREGIVERS INCNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND — $36,000 · HealthNAMI-GREATER CLEVELANDPALS FOR HEALING — $32,000 · HealthPALS FOR HEALINGNaaleh Cleveland Inc — $30,000 · HealthNaaleh Cleveland IncLIFEACT — $25,000 · HealthLIFEACTB RILEY SOBER HOUSE — $10,000 · HealthAbortion Fund of Ohio — $10,000 · HealthCANOPY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $10,000 · HealthHIRAM HOUSE CAMP — $70,000 · OtherHIRAM HOUSE CAMPFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $45,000 · OtherFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING…ART THERAPY STUDIO — $40,000 · OtherART THERAPY STUDIOLOVE YOUR BRAIN INC — $20,000 · OtherLOVE YOUR BRAIN INCIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherCOLORS PLUS — $25,000 · OtherCOLORS PLUSJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING — $15,000 · OtherJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEAL…HOLA OHIO — $10,000 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES — $100,000 · EnvironmentSHAKER LAKES RE…WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $15,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE…SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $55,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKER HIST…THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELA…CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE…RESOURCE CLEVELAND — $25,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CL…BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN RO…GETTING TO WE — $10,000 · Human ServicesGETTING TO …GENDERSPHERE — $5,000 · Human ServicesGENDERSPHER…Light After Loss — $5,000 · Human ServicesLight After…CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING — $45,000 · EducationLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 · Civil Rights
Health$218,000Other$265,000Environment$115,000Arts & Culture$90,000Human Services$85,000Education$45,000Civil Rights$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES — $100,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetCOURAGE TO CAREGIVERS INC — $65,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetSHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $55,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING — $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetART THERAPY STUDIO — $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND — $36,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPALS FOR HEALING — $32,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNaaleh Cleveland Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLIFEACT — $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORS PLUS — $25,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOLA OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGETTING TO WE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetB RILEY SOBER HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAbortion Fund of Ohio — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCANOPY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGENDERSPHERE — $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLight After Loss — $5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budget
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 Foundat…The Char and Chuck Fo…Higley Fund of the Cl…The George Gund Found…Woodruff FoundationJewish Federation of …Dominion Energy Chari…The Swagelok Foundati…Three Arches Foundati…Treu Mart FundEmma R Fox Char Trust…The Andrews Foundation
The Cleveland FoundationOH43.7× affinity20 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 Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Woodruff Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Three Arches Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Andrews 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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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