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Ira Weinstein Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Ira Weinstein Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2017
10
Grants FY2017
4
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
K-9 READING BUDDIES OF THE NORTH SHORE$13,707
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES$10,000
JAZZ EDUCATION NETWORK$10,000
PAWS CHICAGO$10,000
THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK$10,000
ASPCA$7,500
COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING$6,000
KASSEL MISSION HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,700
VOLUNTEER POOL OF HIGHLAND PARK$1,500
LYNN SAGE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ASPCA: $8k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $10k → 14%KASSEL MISSION HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 10%K-9 READING BUDDIES OF THE NORTH SHORE: $14k → 8%PAWS CHICAGO: $10k → 14%THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $10k → 8%LYNN SAGE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $6k → 8%JAZZ EDUCATION NETWORK: $10k → 14%VOLUNTEER POOL OF HIGHLAND PARK: $2k → 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 field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAWS CHICAGO: $10,000 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGOHumane World for Animals Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF …K-9 READING BUDDIES OF THE NORTH SHORE: $13,707 · OtherK-9 READING BUDDIES OF THE NORTH SHOR…COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $6,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOU…KASSEL MISSION HISTORICAL SOCIETY NC: $2,700 · OtherKASSEL MISSION HISTORICAL SOCIETY NCVOLUNTEER POOL OF HIGHLAND PARK: $1,500 · OtherVOLUNTEER POOL OF HIGHLAND PARKTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARKJAZZ EDUCATION NETWORK: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ EDUCATION NETWORKLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Animals$27,500Other$23,907Arts & Culture$20,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

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 budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ EDUCATION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Ira Weinstein Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ira Weinstein Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    3report 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 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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