· Private foundation
Frank X & Mary Ethel Weny Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Frank X & Mary Ethel Weny Charitable Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Frank X & Mary Ethel Weny Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $492k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $298k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST SIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $100,000 |
| HELP A DIABETIC CHILD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $45,000 |
| YARMOUTH POLICE FOUNDATION | $42,500 |
| NEW CANAAN SOCIETY INC | $42,500 |
| CRU | $30,000 |
| NORTH JERSEY HOMESCHOOLERS | $25,000 |
| RON HUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| MORGAN HOFFMAN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HOW TO LIFE | $12,500 |
| GRACE UNITED PRES CHURCH | $12,500 |
| CARE HOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY | $12,500 |
| NEW YORK CITY RELIEF | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| KENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 62% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2019, 8 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- NJNORTH JERSEY HOME SCHOOLERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +43%
- CRCITY RELIEF INC2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +115%
- LMLegacy Minded Ministries2× · 2018–2020 · $42k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- NCNAMI CAPE COD & THE ISLANDone grant, 2017 · $100k
- NCNAMI CAPE COD INCone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -23%
- NJNORTH JERSEY HOME SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $53k
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.
Interdenominational christian ministry reaching men, women, and youth with the gospel message of jesus christ; providing spiritual and material needs in the metropolitan ny area, national and international communities.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
FFICM helps new believers build a firm foundation for their faith based on a strong relationship with Christ. FFICM programs teach how to follow up with new believers and enable them to have a strong relationship with Christ.
NCS is a network of men joined by a common desire for a deep and abiding friendship with Jesus, and lasting and transparent friendships with each other. The mission and purpose of NCS is to connect men who seek and value such friendships,…
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
Since its founding over twenty years ago, the Organization has used a number of expressions to define its ministry. "Every Pastor Needs a Pastor" has described the underlying purpose of the Organization's ministry since day one. "Healthy…
Present jesus christ as savior and lord to business and professional men and to develop christian business and professional men to carry out the great commission.
Christar international serves as a catalyst to the network of christar ministries by facilitating and encouraging partnerships with churches who sen dout men and women who proclaim the gospel for life-giving transformation in communitiesw…
Training & certification of christian biblical counselors
To encourage and facilitate greater charitable giving by offering simple, innovative, and efficient giving tools to support charities, churches, and christian ministries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is Inserra Family Foundation. 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 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 64 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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds YARMOUTH POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH JERSEY HOME SCHOOLERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELP A DIABETIC CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR ↗
- Who funds CITY RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Legacy Minded Ministries ↗
- Who funds NCS BERGEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLYDE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PATERSON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds PAUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds HOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
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: Columbia Bank Foundation · Johanna Van Lenten Charitable Tr · The Mamie and Harold K Randall Charitable Trust · Julia Vander May Bakelaar Charitabl · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Td Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Frank X & Mary Ethel Weny Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Servants Heart Ministry Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Help a Diabetic Child Inc — 0% of income from government
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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