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Franklin Weinberg Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT | $50,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING | $50,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $20,000 |
| EMERSON HEALTH | $10,000 |
| VENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE | $7,820 |
| NEW MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| AAMI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INTERNET ARCHIVE | $5,000 |
| REPROHUB | $5,000 |
| CHILDHELP | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY | $5,000 |
| JV FLETCHER LIBRARY INC | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| THE ECHO THEATER COMPANY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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 +75% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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
- EHEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +144%
- WRWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO5× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +121%
- RSRising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue 0%
- MDMETRO DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVEone grant, 2024 · $13k
- MCMONTERAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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 24 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 159 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 EMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ↗
- Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds Rising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MEARTH ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING ↗
- Who funds IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds AAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds Internet Archive ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SURGICAL AND MEDICAL SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds Transformca dba Transform ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS ↗
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: Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio · Seattle Foundation · The Pesky Family Foundation Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · Impactassetsinc · The Ford Foundation
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 Franklin Weinberg 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.
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Northwest Pilot Project — 6% of income from government
- Echo Theater Company — 1% 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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