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Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds

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.

$21k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$421k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEducationRecreation & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$21k25%
FY20242$6k50%
FY20239$12k44%
FY20227$18k57%
FY20213$24k100%
FY20203$1k33%
FY20195$3k80%
FY20182$1k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$49kArts & Culture$24kYouth Development$4kHuman Services$4kPublic Benefit$2kCommunity Improvement$2kEnvironment$2kRecreation & Sports$50Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Salvadori Center Ltd$23,26941%
Horizons Bridgeport$21,00025%
The Norwalk Art Space Inc$16,00031%
Idyllwild Arts Foundation$5,50060%
Social Impact Partners Inc$4,00020%
Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp$2,10030%
Groundwork Bridgeport Inc$2,00010%
Wnet$1,75010%
New Haven Ecology Project Inc$1,50010%
The American Exchange Project Inc$1,04110%
The Barack Obama Foundation$1,00010%
St Josephs Indian School$901n/a
Descendants Media Group Nfp Inc$5010%
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$5010%
Connecticut Science Center Inc$4410%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSalvadori Center Ltd: $23,269 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHorizons Bridgeport: $21,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetThe Norwalk Art Space Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIdyllwild Arts Foundation: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSocial Impact Partners Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGroundwork Bridgeport Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWnet: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Haven Ecology Project Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Exchange Project Inc: $1,041 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDescendants Media Group Nfp Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Science Center Inc: $44 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds

How much does Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds give?
Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds reported 5 grants totaling $21,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Arts & Culture (27%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Salvadori Center Ltd ($23k), Horizons Bridgeport ($21k), The Norwalk Art Space Inc ($16k).
Does Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds based?
Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds is based in CT.

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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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