· Private foundation
David F & Sara K Weston Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONOAMINE OXIDASE DECICIENCY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $5,000 |
| LA LECHE LUEGUE INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL | $4,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S | $2,500 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $2,500 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $2,500 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO | $2,500 |
| CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY GALVESTON | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MOMONOAMINE OXIDASE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +109%
EARTHJUSTICE5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +16%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITEone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -48%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Guttmacher Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 93 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds National Center for Science Education ↗
- Who funds LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds Galveston College Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA AUDUBON ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Friedlander Family Fund · Earthward Bound Foundation · Building Healthy Lives Foundation · Harry L Willett Foundation C O Boyd Ryan · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David F & Sara K Weston Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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