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A James Weitzenfeld Memorial Foundation at a glance

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A James Weitzenfeld Memorial Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$100kReligion$59kHealth$30kHuman Services$19kPhilanthropy$12kRecreation & Sports$8kEnvironment$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$7,210
Median grant
2
States reached
$915k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$20,080
BMH - BJ CONGREGATION$7,210
GIVERGY$1,570
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LU BIRD'S LIGHT FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%AMERICA RED CROSS: $3k → 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

IL
NY
NJ
CO
NE
AZ
DC
OK
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$150k · 10 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
29

Total granted

$150k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

50%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • DJ
    DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2023 · $75k · revenue +96%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +12%
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    2× · 2019–2022 · $18k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • BC
    BEBER CAMP PROPERTY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +12%
  • CU
    Creighton University
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH OUTREACH INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
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
2
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
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
Breakthrough T1D

Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
9
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
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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11
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Lubirds Light Foundation. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $74,889 · EducationDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOLUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $18,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona FoundationCreighton University: $5,000 · EducationJEWISHColorado: $44,005 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColoradoTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $8,500 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF …COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION+1 more: $121 · PhilanthropyGIVESMART: $12,950 · OtherGIVESMARTBETH MEDROSH HAGODOL CONGREGATION: $9,063 · OtherBETH MEDROSH HAGODOL …Individual grant recipient: $4,625 · OtherIndividual grant reci…THE JEWISH OUTREACH INITIATIVE: $3,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH OUTREACH I…MY SCHOOL: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherAISH: $1,990 · OtherGIVERGY: $1,570 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,550 · Other+19 more: $4,497 · Other+19 moreCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $26,400 · HealthCROHN'S & CO…+4 more: $1,000 · HealthBEBER CAMP PROPERTY INC: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 · Human ServicesLubirds Light Foundation: $500 · Human ServicesDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $2,500 · Environment
Education$97,889Philanthropy$55,626Other$45,245Health$27,400Recreation & Sports$8,000Human Services$3,000Environment$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $74,889 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $44,005 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $26,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEBER CAMP PROPERTY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCreighton University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMY SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLubirds Light Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $414 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $121 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $40 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.

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.

Rose Community Founda…JEWISHColoradoColorado Gives Founda…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rose Community FoundationCO15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · JEWISHColorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James Weitzenfeld Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A James Weitzenfeld Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 45 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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