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Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$951k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthInternationalArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$100k20%
FY20238$81k50%
FY20225$79k0%
FY20219$116k22%
FY20206$59k0%
FY201913$80k15%
FY201811$79k36%
FY201711$87kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$426kHuman Services$128kYouth Development$40kHealth$37kRecreation & Sports$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kInternational$7kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mothers Trust Foundation$82,00082%
Vista Maria$40,00040%
Detroit Cristo Rey High School Inc$35,0001n/a
Grosse Pointe Park Foundation$24,00065%
Grosse Pointe Public Library$20,0002n/a
The Beacon Place NFP$16,50061%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$16,00040%
No Limits Foundation D/B/A Camp No Limits$10,00021%
Art Impact Project Not for Profit$7,00046%
Warm Hearts Foundation$7,00021%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mothers Trust Foundation$82,00082%
Vista Maria$40,00040%
Detroit Cristo Rey High School Inc$35,0001n/a
Grosse Pointe Park Foundation$24,00065%
Grosse Pointe Public Library$20,0002n/a
The Beacon Place NFP$16,50061%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$16,00040%
No Limits Foundation D/B/A Camp No Limits$10,00021%
Art Impact Project Not for Profit$7,00046%
Warm Hearts Foundation$7,00021%
Elawa Farm Foundation$6,50020%
Max Schewitz Foundation$3,50022%
Matrix Human Services$3,50030%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($409k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $82,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetVista Maria: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGrosse Pointe Park Foundation: $24,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetThe Beacon Place NFP: $16,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNo Limits Foundation D/B/A Camp No Limits: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetArt Impact Project Not for Profit: $7,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetWarm Hearts Foundation: $7,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetElawa Farm Foundation: $6,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMax Schewitz Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMatrix Human Services: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Gorter Family Foundation · The Grainger Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation

How much does Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation give?
Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (63%), Human Services (19%), Youth Development (6%).
Who are Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mothers Trust Foundation ($82k), Vista Maria ($40k), Detroit Cristo Rey High School Inc ($35k).
Does Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Gorter Family Foundation, The Grainger Foundation Inc.
Where is Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation based?
Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation is based in IL.

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 25 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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