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Garry Weber Foundation at a glance

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Garry Weber Foundation

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.

$6.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$28MArts & Culture$1.5MHealth$300kRecreation & Sports$200kPublic Benefit$200kInternational$100kYouth Development$50kPhilanthropy$25k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $6.0M
$1,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$5,000,000
HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000,000
THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION$100,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 4 repeat orgs$675k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$30M
$675k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
-1%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    4× · 2022–2025 · $25M · revenue +3%
  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +96%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.5M

Funded once

  • CF
    CRYSTAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -91% · 55% of their budget
  • AT
    Adaptive Training Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +38%
  • GA
    GARY AND VIVIENNE PLAYER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -39%
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
Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…

Crime & Legal
2
George Hw Bush Foundation for Us-China Relations
International
3
Lone Star Flight Museum

Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.

Arts & Culture
4
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
5
The Bush Foundation
Education
6
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
7
Gary Plumery Foundation
Health
8
The George and Barbara Bush Foundation

The george & barbara bush foundation strives to preserve the historic legacies of president and mrs. george h.w. bush.

Education
9
Wireless History Foundation

The Foundation preserves and promotes the history of the wireless industry. The Foundation chronicles the achievements of individuals, the contributions of numerous organizations, and the evolution of markets and technology. The Foundation…

Arts & Culture
10
Gerald R Ford Presidential Foundation

The gerald r. ford presidential foundation fosters increased awareness of the life, career, values, and legacy of america's 38th president. it does so through activities designed to promote the high ideals of integrity, honesty, and candor…

Education
11
Texas Interscholastic League Foundation

The Foundation grants scholarships to Texas residents attending an accredited Texas college or university.

Education
12
Smu Golf Foundation

Support men's and women's intercollegiate golf programs at SMU

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fit and Faithful Living Inc; the most unlike its peers is Crystal Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southern Methodist University: $25,000,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 · EducationHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION+1 more: $200,000 · EducationTHE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM: $1,500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN: $100,000 · OtherAdaptive Training Foundation: $200,000 · Human ServicesFit and Faithful Living Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesCRYSTAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthGARY AND VIVIENNE PLAYER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCARRY THE LOAD: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Education$28,200,000Other$1,600,000Human Services$250,000Health$200,000Philanthropy$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern Methodist University: $25,000,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCRYSTAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetAdaptive Training Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGARY AND VIVIENNE PLAYER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFit and Faithful Living Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Garry Weber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garry Weber Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Garry Weber Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Garry Weber 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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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