· Private foundation
Wolfort Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,400 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| HIRAM HOUSE CAMP | $11,000 |
| THE SHUL | $10,000 |
| MALTZ MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| IBU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR COLLIER CO | $1,100 |
| NAPLES SHELTER FOR WOMEN | $1,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $750 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $500 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE CLEVELAND | $250 |
| MORELAND HILLS POLICE & EMPLOYEE FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TMThe Musical Arts Association8× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +45%
- HSHAWKEN SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $200k · revenue +76%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $131k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CCCase Comprehensive Cancer Centerone grant, 2022 · $20k
THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -31%- ACAUGUSTA CHIWY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +210%
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.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
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.
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
The mission of the akron-canton regional foodbank is to lead a collaborative network that empowers people to experience healthy and hunger-free lives. we distribute food to feed people and we advocate, engage and convene our community in…
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.
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.
We empower people on their journey to independence through the sale of donated goods, which supports employment programs and family services.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.
To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life for all people affected by lupus through programs of research, education and advocacy. our vision is a world without lupus.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Aronson Cello Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 102 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 The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds IBU Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA CHIWY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mutt Madness of the MS Delta ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH ↗
- Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MORELAND HILLS POLICE & EMPLOYEES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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 · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Robert & Paula Boykin Family Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Rdm Foundation · Sullivan Family Fund · Mt Sinai Health Care 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 organization Wolfort Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Valerie's House Inc — 0% 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.