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A H & Helen Weiss Foundation at a glance

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A H & Helen Weiss Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$172k
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$320kReligion$265kPhilanthropy$123kHuman Services$54kArts & Culture$30kEducation$28kYouth Development$26kRecreation & Sports$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k70 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$300
Median grant
16
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY$25,000
ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
ABRAMSON SENIOR CARE$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE$7,922
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA HILLEL$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HILLEL$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HILLEL$7,500
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER$6,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$5,000
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE$4,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION: $200 → 5%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $200 → 14%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $150 → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $100 → 17%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $500 → 22%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $100 → 17%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 22%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $100 → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $100 → 17%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 22%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $200 → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $200 → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $200 → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $200 → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $200 → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $200 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$767k · 77 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -53% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
7

Total granted

$767k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-53%

Still filing today

43%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $18k · revenue +88%
  • H'
    HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +576%
  • WS
    WINDWARD SCHOOL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION - NALIBOTSKY CARDIAC TRANSPLANT FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • UO
    UNIVERISTY OF FLORIDA HILLEL
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AH
    ABRAMSON HEALTHY BRAIN AND MEMORY CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
4
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
10
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia; the most unlike its peers is Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 113 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
33/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NALIBOTSKY CARDIAC TRANSPLANT FUND: $120,000 · OtherNALIBOTSKY CARDIAC TRANSPLANT FUNDNYU LANGONE MEDI CENT - MS CLINIC: $65,900 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDI CENT - MS CLINICABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE: $60,000 · OtherABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFEJEWISH FEDERATION OF CHARLOTTE: $47,622 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF CHARLOTTEB NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $42,150 · OtherB NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHIL: $41,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILABRAMSON SENIOR CARE: $40,000 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $32,500 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL: $29,119 · Other+63 more: $293,882 · Other+63 moreATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $17,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Health+9 more: $5,850 · HealthWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,600 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,100 · Arts & CultureUnited Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $14,422 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10,500 · PhilanthropyMARJORIE B COHEN FOUNDATION CO ANDREW COHEN: $1,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $950 · PhilanthropyHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $8,500 · EducationWINDWARD SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC: $2,700 · EducationEmory University: $1,700 · Education+2 more: $300 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $3,500 · Human ServicesJOHN TRACY CLINIC: $1,400 · Human ServicesAMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION: $800 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $700 · Human ServicesBEYOND BEDTIME INC: $550 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $500 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $300 · Human ServicesBNAI ZION FOUNDATION INC: $800 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $250 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $200 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $150 · International
Other$772,673Health$45,850Arts & Culture$30,700Philanthropy$26,872Education$18,200Human Services$7,750International$1,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $14,422 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $8,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWINDWARD SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL D COZEN MEMORIAL FUND: $4,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC: $2,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $1,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN TRACY CLINIC: $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $1,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $1,050 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN PA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARJORIE B COHEN FOUNDATION CO ANDREW COHEN: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION: $800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetF C Cancer Foundation A California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBNAI ZION FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND BEDTIME INC: $550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEARING CHARITIES OF AMERICA: $400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL STROKE ASSOCIATION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $150 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.

  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SAMUEL D COZEN MEMORIAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗

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.

Pledgeling FoundationJewish Communal FundChubb Charitable Foun…Jewish Community Foun…California Community …Foundation for the Ca…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…AbbVie FoundationVerizon FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…
Pledgeling FoundationCA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pledgeling Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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 A H & Helen Weiss Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A H & Helen Weiss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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How do I get to A H & Helen Weiss Foundation?

Find your warmest path to A H & Helen Weiss Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 113 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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