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Helmut and Carmen Weisser Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Helmut and Carmen Weisser Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$10kHuman Services$8kEducation$5kAnimals$5kCrime & Legal$5kReligion$5kEnvironment$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW BERN HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
RHEMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$2,500
HOPE CLINIC$2,500
OUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER$2,500
BIKE BOX PROJECT$2,500
CRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB$2,500
NEW BERN POLICE DEPARTMENT CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS INC$2,500
THE MERROW FOUNDATION$2,500
EBENEZER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%OUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER: $3k → 12%MERCI CLINIC: $3k → 14%HOPE CLINIC: $3k → 16%TEH FILLING STATION: $3k → 17%BRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY: $3k → 20%THE MERROW FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%SOUND RIVERS: $3k → 14%PRIME TIME: $3k → 16%CRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB: $3k → 12%CRAVEN COUNTY NC SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: $3k → 14%NEW BERN HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 14%CRAVEN LITERACY COUNCIL: $3k → 14%BIKE BOX PROJECT: $3k → 14%ST JOHN'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 14%RHEMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3k → 14%RIVERBEND NC POLICE DEPARTMENT: $3k → 14%COLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 14%NEW BERN POLICE DEPARTMENT CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS INC: $3k → 14%CRAVEN COUNTY NC SENIOR SERVICES SUNSHINE CENTER: $3k → 14%EBENEZER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%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 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
Township Seven Ems Inc

Provide emergency medical services to residents and businesses of township 7 and the surrounding areas of craven county, north carolina

Education
2
Rift Valley Wildlife Clinics

A not for profit organization dedicated to improving the welfare of domestic animals and wildlife

Animals
3
Nc Dog Rescue Organization
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4
Collie Rescue of the Carolinas

Endangered animal rescue and adoption

Animals
5
Gulf Coast Wildlife Rescue Inc aka Gulf Coast Wildlife Rescue aka Gcwr

Care of injured and orphaned wild animals

Animals
6
Animal Protection League of Mercer
Animals
7
Richardsons Rescue

Richardsons Rescue is a non-profit, no kill 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the care, rehabilitation and adoption of domestic cats. Staffed by volunteers, our mission is to: Remove animals from homeless situations, provide medical care…

Animals
8
Humane Society of Eastern Carolina

to find forever homes for unwanted animals

Animals
9
Friends of Bergen County Animal Shelter T/a Focas

Prevention of cruelty to animals

Animals
10
Rescue Me Animal Advocacy

Rescue animals

Animals
11
Raskels Rescue
Animals
12
Person County Rescue Squad

Emergency rescue and first aid

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter Inc; the most unlike its peers is Merrow 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

10 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. 10 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY INC: $2,500 · OtherBRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY INCNEW BERN HIGH SCHOOL: $2,500 · OtherNEW BERN HIGH SCHOOLCRAVEN COUNTY NC SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: $2,500 · OtherCRAVEN COUNTY NC SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTCOLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 · OtherCOLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETYCRAVEN LITERACY COUNCIL: $2,500 · OtherCRAVEN LITERACY COUNCILST JOHN'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherST JOHN'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPRIME TIME: $2,500 · OtherPRIME TIMEEBENEZER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherEBENEZER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCRAVEN COUNTY NC SENIOR SERVICES SUNSHINE CENTER: $2,500 · OtherCRAVEN COUNTY NC SENIOR SERVICES SUNSHINE CENTERCRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB: $2,500 · OtherCRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHABRIVERBEND NC POLICE DEPARTMENT: $2,500 · OtherRIVERBEND NC POLICE DEPARTMENTMERCI CLINIC INC: $2,500 · HealthMERCI CLINI…HOPE CLINIC: $2,500 · HealthHOPE CLINICMERROW FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Science & TechNEW BERN POLICE DEPARTMENT CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentSOUND RIVERS INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentRHEMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterOUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER INC: $2,500 · AnimalsBIKE BOX PROJECT: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$30,000Health$5,000Science & Tech$2,500Youth Development$2,500Environment$2,500Public Safety & Disaster$2,500Animals$2,500Philanthropy$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERROW FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 69% of budgetMERCI CLINIC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE CLINIC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRAVEN LITERACY COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOUND RIVERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRHEMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBIKE BOX PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Harold H Bate Fou…North Carolina Commun…Carolinaeast Foundati…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Harold H Bate Foundation IncNC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harold H Bate Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Carolinaeast Foundation · 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 Helmut and Carmen Weisser Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helmut and Carmen Weisser Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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