· Private foundation
David & Candace Weir 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $204k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nature Conservancy - Block Island | $800,000 |
| Adirondack Land Trust | $800,000 |
| National Trust For Historic Preservation | $500,000 |
| WNET | $350,000 |
| Vassar College | $350,000 |
| The Museum Of Modern Art | $307,654 |
| WETA | $250,000 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation | $152,500 |
| The Metropolitan Museum Of Art | $107,500 |
| PBS Foundation | $100,000 |
| National Public Radio | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Albany Medical Center Foundation | $60,000 |
| New-York Historical Society | $55,000 |
| Capital Roots | $51,100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
157 repeat relationships: 108 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM6× · 2019–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +245%
- ALADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +105%
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +37%
Funded once
- SPST PIUS Xone grant, 2022 · $103k
- ACADIRONDACK CHAPTER OF THE NATURE CONSERVAone grant, 2023 · $100k
- NCNature Conservancy - Adirondack Chapterone grant, 2018 · $40k
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.
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
127 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. 127 of the 222 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ALBANY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE AND SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT STEP INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Review Foundation · The Bender Family Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Keeler Motor Car Company Charitable Foundation · The McCarthy Charities Inc · Kiwi Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Picotte Family Foundation · Carl E Touhey Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David & Candace Weir Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Candace Weir Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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