· Private foundation
Wwmr Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of Wwmr Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Wwmr Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $890k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $590k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $100,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| BECK CENTER | $50,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOODBANK | $50,000 |
| BLUE WATER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES | $10,000 |
| IDEASTREAM - WCLV | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| HEIGHTS ARTS | $5,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of your 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WRWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY3× · 2022–2024 · $850k · revenue +52%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +27%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- BIBILLY IRELAND CARTOON LIBRARY & MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.
America's river roots' mission is a quest to forge deeper connections to america's inland river waterways, aiming to highlight the pivotal role the ohio river played in shaping our nation. sparked by america's 250th anniversary, this…
Western reserve historical society preserves and uses its collections, historic sites, and museums to inspire people to discover the american experience by exploring the tangible history of northeast ohio.
The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The cleveland pops orchestra, led by conductor carl topilow, performs the highest quality symphonic pops music to entertain and enrich a wide and diverse audience and provides educational programs to develop an enduring appreciation of…
Non-profit organization dedicated to presenting frees concert of Classical Music
To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.
Born from the collision of rhythm & blues, country, and gospel, rock & roll is a spirit that is inclusive and ever-changing. the rock & roll hall of fame celebrates the sound of youth culture and honors the artists whose music connects us…
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Opera columbus enriches central ohio by educating, enlightening, and entertaining people of all ages and backgrounds through the live music theatre experience by employing a diverse and far-flung supply of creative talent, ideas and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Ohio State University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUEWATER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ZYGOTE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 organization Wwmr 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.
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.
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