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Bernard Weinberg Foundation at a glance

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Bernard Weinberg 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.

$20k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Health$110kAnimals$82kYouth Development$40kHuman Services$38kCivil Rights$31kPhilanthropy$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kInternational$24kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$54k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION$5,000
JEWISH BIG BROTHER AND BIG SISTERS$5,000
LANGE FOUNDATION$5,000
VISTA DEL MAR$3,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
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 (FY20–23, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RED ROVER VENTURES: $400 → 11%ORPHAN ACRES INC: $500 → 16%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $21k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 7%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SRV: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SRV: $2k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $700 → 17%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUE OF AMERICA INC: $2k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 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

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OH
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CA
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CO
NE
MO
KY
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MD
AZ
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AR
TN
DC
OK
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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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$214k · 21 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
124

Total granted

$214k
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue +13%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2020–2023 · $26k · revenue +38%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • AS
    AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION
    one grant, 2020 · $28k
  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • CH
    CEDARS-SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -1%
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
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
2
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
3
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
4
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
7
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
8
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
11
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
12
Humane Farm Animal Care

Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wayfinder Family Services. 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

110 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. 110 of the 148 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/110
Grantees still filing
81/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH BIG BROTHER AND BIG SISTERS: $38,500 · OtherJEWISH BIG BROTHER AND BIG SISTERSAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION: $28,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PREVENTIONCITY OF HOPE: $20,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED: $9,600 · OtherALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATEDUNITED WAY OF GREATER LA: $8,000 · Other+56 more: $65,675 · Other+56 moreLANGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesLANGE FOUNDATIONAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $26,100 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $7,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD A…UNION RESCUE MISSION: $6,700 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION+8 more: $7,900 · Human Services+8 moreCEDARS-SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $20,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI HEA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,600 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…American Heart Association Inc: $7,000 · HealthAmerican Heart A…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,200 · HealthNAMI National: $3,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,250 · Health+17 more: $15,600 · Health+17 moreLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $18,000 · AnimalsLOS ANGELES…THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $3,800 · AnimalsTHE MARINE …AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN HU…Humane World for Animals Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsHumane Worl…FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $2,300 · AnimalsKeepers of the Wild: $2,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INC: $1,700 · Animals+26 more: $9,900 · Animals+26 moreSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $28,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $400 · Crime & LegalSave The Children Federation Inc: $7,000 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $4,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $2,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,050 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,500 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · InternationalHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 · International+5 more: $2,200 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $250 · Philanthropy
Other$169,775Human Services$82,700Health$61,650Animals$43,700Crime & Legal$28,400International$25,750Philanthropy$16,250

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 budgetLANGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $26,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $6,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $2,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeepers of the Wild: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetApla Health & Wellness: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMacular Degeneration Association: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $1,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Equality: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 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.

PC Fund for Animals C…Seckinger Foundation …Bradford Family Found…Joyce a Ward Foundati…The Susan and Ford Sc…Surendra and Karen Gu…The Gerald B Shreiber…Farrell Family Founda…Amg Charitable Gift F…Edwin D Marks Animal …John R Oltman Charita…Gat Family Foundation
PC Fund for Animals Charitable TrWY43.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Bradford Family Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · Gat Family 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 Bernard Weinberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard Weinberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Bernard Weinberg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bernard Weinberg 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 148 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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