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· Private foundation
WENK FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$71k
Granted FY2019
14
Grants
2
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2019 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k10 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$3,960
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL$15,000
- CHAGRIN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS$10,000
- CORNERSTONE OF HOPE$10,000
- CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S$10,000
- THE CITY MISSION$5,500
- JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY$5,000
- HOPE MEADOWS FOUNDATION$3,960
- CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE$2,500
- A KID AT ART FOR THE HEART$2,500
- BROADWAY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$2,500
- CLEVELAND KIDS BOOK BANK$1,752
- SHCTHE ARC OF MEDINA COUNTY$1,250
- UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT$500
- PROVIDENCE HOUSE$500
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 13%. 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 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
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
2
Cleveland State University
The CSUF is organized primarily to engage in activities to provide support and services to CSU.
Education
3
Cleveland University - Kansas City
To provide a strong, student-centered professional education with a focus in the areas of life sciences and health promotion through education, scholarship, and service.
Health
4
Cleveland Institute of Music
To empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams&potential.
Education
5
Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital
To provide quality, compassionate and affordable healthcare services.
Health
6
Cleveland Botanical Garden
The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
Environment
7
The Cleveland Foundation
The cleveland foundation's mission is to 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…
Philanthropy
8
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
9
Central Community House
Provides holistic, onsite support services; crisis and basic needs; youth, family and senior support/education; art education, health and wellness, and workforce services primarily to low-income individuals and families in the near east…
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10
Community of Hope
To build lasting relationships, nurture hope, and restore dignity by creating family-like relationships for cleveland's youth. we connect young adults & young families to groups of committed volunteers from the community, using a national…
Youth Development
11
Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland
Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…
Housing & Shelter
12
Catholic Charities Corporation
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Settlement Inc and the most unlike its peers is John Carroll University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$33,710Arts & Culture$17,500Human Services$10,500Education$6,752Animals$2,500
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 HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEADOWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds A KID AT ART FOR THE HEART ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND KIDS BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
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 FoundationOH19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier · Corinne L Dodero Foundation for The · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation WENK FAMILY CHARITABLE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
04Through 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: HOPE MEADOWS FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 352327253 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 HOPE MEADOWS FOUNDATION, 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
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Wenk Family Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Wenk Family Charitable Foundation 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.
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