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First Weber Foundation Inc

To expand First Weber's commitment to strengthen our communities through charitable contributions such as group giving, general giving, and matching programs.

$160k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$213kHousing & Shelter$147kFood & Nutrition$140kHuman Services$129kYouth Development$123kPhilanthropy$36kEducation$36kReligion$31kOther$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $32,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $159,778 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $127,778 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$17,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$150k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$17,000
UNICEF$15,000
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 (FY17–21, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BALANCE INC: $14k → 6%TEEN REACH: $5k → 8%FRIENDS INC: $5k → 6%EVERGREEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $8k → 10%COMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY: $7k → 14%SUNSHINE PLACE INC: $8k → 10%COMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY: $6k → 14%COMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY: $6k → 14%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $6k → 9%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC: $6k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $10k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $8k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $7k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $7k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $6k → 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

ID
IL
WI
NY
OR
PA
GA
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$702k · 23 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
29

Total granted

$702k
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+49%

Still filing today

83%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $107k · revenue +156%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI
    5× · 2017–2021 · $68k · revenue +70%
  • TB
    THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $51k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • BF
    BIKES FOR KIDS WISCONSIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $22k · revenue +561% · 51% of their budget
  • RR
    Realtors Relief Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +51%
  • BI
    Balance Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue -8%
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
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
2
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment
3
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
4
Renew Wisconsin Inc

Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.

Environment
5
Landmark Conservancy Inc

Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.

Environment
6
Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care Inc

To end homelessness by supporting local coalitions throughout wisconsin.

Housing & Shelter
7
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
8
Community Shares of Wisconsin Inc

Community shares of wisconsin (csw), together with its donors and approximately 70 member nonprofits, addresses social, economic, and environmental problems through grassroots activities, advocacy, research and public education.

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9
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
10
United Way of Dane County Inc

Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.

—
11
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy
12
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Inc; the most unlike its peers is Colsac Skiers Inc. 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

45 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. 45 of the 54 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS AND FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION FFCF INC: $47,035 · OtherFRIENDS AND FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION FF…NECESSITIES BAG WISCONSIN: $31,004 · OtherNECESSITIES BAG WISCONSINST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $26,220 · OtherST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCHALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF WI INC: $20,650 · OtherALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF WI I…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON AND DODGE COUNTIES WISCONSIN INC: $13,700 · OtherCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC: $24,025 · OtherCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INCRealtors Relief Foundation: $17,207 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $15,000 · OtherPLAYHOUSE THEATRE GROUP OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN: $19,614 · OtherPLAYHOUSE THEATRE GROUP OF CENTRAL WISC…RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,500 · Other+16 more: $100,738 · Other+16 moreWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $38,921 · Human ServicesWAYFORWARD RESOURCE…SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $30,125 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUND…DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC: $20,800 · Human ServicesDISTRICT COUNCIL OF…COMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY INC: $19,560 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SHARING P…Balance Inc: $13,696 · Human ServicesBalance IncSUNSHINE PLACE INC: $8,155 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $7,545 · Human ServicesONE CITY SCHOOLS INC: $6,480 · Human ServicesPeople Helping People: $6,459 · Human Services+2 more: $10,480 · Human Services+2 moreMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $106,552 · Housing & ShelterMILWAUKEE HABI…ENERGY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterENERGY SERVICE…SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $8,680 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVE…EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC: $46,180 · HealthEASTER SEALS …THE ALS ASSOCIATION INC WISCONSIN CHAPTER: $35,485 · HealthTHE ALS ASSOC…CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $17,130 · HealthCHARCOT-MARIE…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $11,780 · HealthAMERICAN CANC…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,450 · HealthTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $51,257 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS & GI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC: $26,705 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …BIKES FOR KIDS WISCONSIN INC: $22,160 · Youth DevelopmentBIKES FOR KID…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $8,600 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $7,300 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $68,190 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,801 · PhilanthropyHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $5,335 · Philanthropy
Other$327,693Human Services$162,221Housing & Shelter$125,232Health$116,025Youth Development$116,022Food & Nutrition$68,190Philanthropy$35,136

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 budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $106,552 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $68,190 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $51,257 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetEASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC: $46,180 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $38,921 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALS ASSOCIATION INC WISCONSIN CHAPTER: $35,485 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $30,125 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC: $26,705 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC: $24,025 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBIKES FOR KIDS WISCONSIN INC: $22,160 over 1y, 51% of budgetDISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC: $20,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF WI INC: $20,650 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPLAYHOUSE THEATRE GROUP OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN: $19,614 over 2y, 44% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY INC: $19,560 over 3y, 12% of budgetRealtors Relief Foundation: $17,207 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $17,130 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,801 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBalance Inc: $13,696 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $11,780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREEDSBURG SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetENERGY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $8,680 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $8,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE PLACE INC: $8,155 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetColsac Skiers Inc: $7,632 over 1y, 20% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $7,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC: $7,050 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS INC: $6,480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeople Helping People: $6,459 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $6,444 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $5,335 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOX CITIES MARATHON INC: $5,312 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEEN REACH: $5,230 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S COMMUNITY INC: $5,105 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMSRUNTHEUS INC: $5,050 over 1y, 11% 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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Madison Gas and Elect…Madison Community Fou…Alliant Energy Founda…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Green Bay Com…United Way of Dane Co…Otto Bremer TrustBaird Foundation IncGreater Milwaukee Fou…Sub-Zero Group Founda…The Evjue Foundation …
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI30.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc

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 First Weber Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Weber Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 54 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $144k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home