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Hilary & Barry Weinstein Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Hilary & Barry Weinstein Family Charitable 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.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$136kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$8kInternational$5kReligion$4kHealth$3kYouth Development$3kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$157k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JOFFREY BALLET$10,000
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MU$1,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS$1,000
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 (FY18–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$190k · 13 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$190k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+27%

Still filing today

77%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JOFFREY BALLET
    8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +90%
  • LO
    Lyric Opera of Chicago
    9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +33%
  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    7× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +49%
  • AS
    AM SHALOM CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -4%
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
Chicago Wind Symphony
Arts & Culture
2
Grant Park Orchestral Association

(see schedule o)

Arts & Culture
3
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
4
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
5
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

Arts & Culture
8
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
9
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
10
The Richard H Driehaus Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Wounded Warrior Project 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

16 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. 16 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JOFFREY BALLET: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLETLyric Opera of Chicago: $61,243 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of ChicagoChicago Symphony Orchestra: $22,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra+3 more: $7,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual gran…Individual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual gran…AM SHALOM CONGREGATION: $3,500 · OtherAM SHALOM CONGR…SGA YOUTH FAMILY SERVICES: $2,500 · OtherSGA YOUTH FAMIL…PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1,500 · OtherNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,200 · OtherTHE ART INSTITU…+4 more: $1,050 · OtherJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,000 · InternationalGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3,500 · Food & NutritionWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,100 · Human ServicesPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,700 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $1,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$155,743Other$29,250Philanthropy$10,000International$5,000Food & Nutrition$3,500Human Services$3,100Health$2,700

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 budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $65,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $61,243 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for Contemporary Art C-O The Art Institute of Chicago: $1,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hilary & Barry Weinstein Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hilary & Barry Weinstein Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–15%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Hilary & Barry Weinstein Family Charitable 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 23 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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