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Wenk Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Wenk Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2019
14
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2019 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k10 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$3,960
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
A KID AT ART FOR THE HEART$2,500
CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE$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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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 (FY19–19, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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 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.

1
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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2
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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3
America Scores Cleveland

America scores cleveland inspires urban youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.

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4
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
5
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
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
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
8
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
9
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
10
Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme

Project extreme provides innovative programming and solutions for teens in -need, their families and communities. project extreme uses a combination of experiential and intellectual learning opportunities to provide the social, educational…

Youth Development
11
Family and Children's Services of Centra

To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.

Human Services
12
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone of Hope Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cleveland Kids' Book Bank. 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 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. 9 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAGRIN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · OtherCHAGRIN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTSCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S: $10,000 · OtherCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'SCITY MISSION: $5,500 · OtherCITY MISSIONHope Meadows Foundation: $3,960 · OtherHope Meadows FoundationBROADWAY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $2,500 · OtherBROADWAY SCHOOL OF THE ARTSSHCTHE ARC OF MEDINA COUNTY: $1,250 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherHARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNAT…A KID AT ART FOR THE HEART INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureA KID AT ART FOR THE HEART …CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF H…UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $500 · Human ServicesJohn Carroll University: $5,000 · EducationJohn Carro…CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $1,752 · EducationCLEVELAND …THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $2,500 · Animals
Other$33,710Arts & Culture$17,500Human Services$10,500Education$6,752Animals$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Meadows Foundation: $3,960 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $1,752 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Corinne L Dodero Foun…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cleveland FoundationOH17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Corinne L Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wenk Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wenk Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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