Ohio · 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.
- $334k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 50
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations William M Weiss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $333k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $274k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $313k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $300k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $281k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $266k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Kids' Book Bank | $105,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cuyahoga Community College Foundation | $82,500 | 6 | 0% |
| College Now Greater Cleveland Inc | $74,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gmiluth Chasodim (The Hebrew Free Loan Association) | $70,700 | 6 | 2% |
| Cleveland Public Theatre Inc | $61,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Inspiration Corporation | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland | $50,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Playhouse Square Foundation | $47,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Youth Opportunities Unlimited | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($789k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William M Weiss Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About William M Weiss Foundation
- How much does William M Weiss Foundation give?
- William M Weiss Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $333,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does William M Weiss Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Education (22%), Community Improvement (7%).
- Who are William M Weiss Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cleveland Kids' Book Bank ($105k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($85k), Cuyahoga Community College Foundation ($83k).
- Does William M Weiss Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William M Weiss Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William M Weiss Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Third Federal Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
- Where is William M Weiss Foundation based?
- William M Weiss Foundation is based in OH.
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