How much does The Wuliger Foundation give?

The Wuliger Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $1,114,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Wuliger Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (59%), Health (14%), International (11%).

Who are The Wuliger Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($560k), Bellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau ($418k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($280k).

Does The Wuliger Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Wuliger Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Wuliger Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Cleveland, The Cleveland Foundation, The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation.

Where is The Wuliger Foundation based?

The Wuliger Foundation is based in OH.

The Wuliger Foundation

The Wuliger Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Wuliger Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$574k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

52% of The Wuliger Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 28 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.1MHealth$1.2MInternational$929kFood & Nutrition$354kEducation$328kHuman Services$235kArts & Culture$227kReligion$69kOther$0

02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k26 grants · $119k
$10k–50k10 grants · $132k
$50k–250k4 grants · $290k
$250k+1 grant · $574k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND	$574,000
UNITED WAY	$85,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS	$75,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$70,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK	$60,000
CLAIRTON PROJECT	$25,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE	$20,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION	$12,500
FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES	$12,500
HILLEL FOUNDATION	$11,500
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL	$10,000
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY	$10,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM	$10,000
SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS	$10,000
YWCA GREATER CLEVELAND	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $104k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.6M · 60 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+17%

Still filing today

70%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

BJ
BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU
8× · 2017–2024 · $418k · revenue +17%
GC
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $280k · revenue +10%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +24%

Funded once

CC
CLEVELAND CLINIC
one grant, 2021 · $60k
UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND
one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -56%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION - FAMILIES AT RISK DIVISION
one grant, 2017 · $13k

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.

04Its field

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.

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.

Philanthropy

Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion

Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education

JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion

Jewish Family Services

To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.

Human Services

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 99 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/56

Grantees still filing

44/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$4,706,500Other$1,912,350International$893,500Health$516,500Food & Nutrition$280,000Religion$123,500Arts & Culture$122,000

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH43.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Leonard and Joan Horvitz Foundation · Irving I Stone Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wuliger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wuliger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home