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David & Rae Wiener Foundation at a glance

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David & Rae Wiener Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2017
50
Grants FY2017
11
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
11
States reached
$432k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF VENTURA COUNTY$1,800
TEMPLE ISRAEL$1,275
TEMPLE ISRAEL$1,275
COMERATA PACIFICA$1,000
NEW WEST SYMPHONY$800
GOULD FARM$500
FOUNTAIN HOUSE$500
FOOD SHARE INC$500
Individual grant recipient$500
SPRING LAKE RANCH$500
Individual grant recipient$500
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF VC$340
Individual grant recipient$300
COALITION FOR FAMILY HARMONY$250
PROJECT RENEWAL$250
02The need
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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 (FY17–17, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CASA PACIFICA: $250 → 10%RAIN COMMUNITIES INC: $250 → 10%COALITION FOR FAMILY HARMONY: $250 → 10%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

ME
VT
MN
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MD
DC
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 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
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
5
Coastal Roots Farm

Coastal roots farm cultivates healthy, connected communities by integrating sustainable agriculture, food justice, and ancient jewish wisdom.

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6
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
New York Common Pantry

New york common pantry reduces hunger while promoting dignity, health and self-sufficiency.

Food & Nutrition
10
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
11
The People Concern

The people concern believes no one should have to live on the street or in an abusive household. our staff, volunteers, and those we serve work together to address the effects of homelessness, poverty, mental and physical illness, abuse,…

Human Services
12
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Renewal Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oxnard Film Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 49 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE ISRAEL WESTPORT INC: $2,550 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL WESTPORT INCIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherSPRING LAKE RANCH INC: $500 · OtherGOULD FARM: $500 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF VC: $340 · Other+27 more: $4,540 · Other+27 moreCAMERATA PACIFICA: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCAMERATA PACIFIC…NEW WEST SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $800 · Arts & CultureNEW WEST SYMPHON…OXNARD FILM SOCIETY: $250 · Arts & CultureOXNARD FILM SOCI…JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $250 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW D…CARNEGIE ART MUSEUM CORNERSTONES: $150 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE ART MUS…Jewish Federation of Ventura County: $1,800 · PhilanthropyJewish Feder…FOOD SHARE INC: $500 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $150 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $150 · Food & NutritionFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $500 · HealthPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $250 · HealthCOALITION FOR FAMILY HARMONY: $250 · Human ServicesCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $250 · Human ServicesRAIN COMMUNITIES INC: $250 · Human ServicesBaylor College of Medicine: $250 · EducationOXNARD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200 · Education
Other$9,430Arts & Culture$2,450Philanthropy$1,800Food & Nutrition$800Health$750Human Services$750Education$450

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 budgetFOOD SHARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING LAKE RANCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR FAMILY HARMONY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXNARD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEST DAY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE ART MUSEUM CORNERSTONES: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Nassau County Inc: $100 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.

Ventura County Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ventura County Community FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ventura County Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 David & Rae Wiener Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Rae Wiener Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to David & Rae Wiener Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David & Rae Wiener 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 49 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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