· Private foundation
William M Weiss Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $226k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELEANOR RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE | $40,000 |
| CLEVELAND KIDS BOOK BANK | $35,000 |
| CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $25,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATION | $23,000 |
| LITERACY COOPERATIVE | $15,000 |
| LOOKINGGLASS THEATR | $15,000 |
| INSPIRATION CORPORATION | $12,000 |
| CLEVELAND CITY CLUB | $10,800 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HFLA OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE | $10,000 |
| CHN HOUSING PARTNERS | $7,500 |
| FAIRMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CKCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +16%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +10%
- CCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- GTGOODMAN THEATRE COMPone grant, 2023 · $15k
- MAMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TFTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +102%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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 provide leadership on key community issues.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Erie Ink and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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. 45 of the 91 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
- Who funds VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AND HANDS OF CASA ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds Victory Gardens Theater ↗
- Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds KROKA EXPEDITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE INK ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗
- Who funds Storycatchers ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Abington Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio
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 William M Weiss 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Revere and Son Heritage Trust Corporation — 4% of income from government
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.