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Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation at a glance

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Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$426kHuman Services$128kYouth Development$40kHealth$37kRecreation & Sports$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kInternational$7kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$951k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$35,000
ST CLARE OF MONTEFALCO SCHOOL$35,000
MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION$15,000
GROSSE POINTE PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,000
CAMP NO LIMITS$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BEACON PLACE: $8k → 8%BEACON PLACE: $6k → 8%BEACON PLACE: $3k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $8k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$619k · 17 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$619k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+125%

Still filing today

53%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalHealthArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MT
    Mothers Trust Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +174%
  • VISTA MARIA
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +60%
  • GP
    GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • GP
    GROSSE POINTE PARK PUBLIC SAFETY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • EF
    ELAWA FARM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +125%
  • MS
    MAX SCHEWITZ FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue -13%
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
Michigan Pharmacy Foundation

To advance pharmacy through education, practice innovation and research focused on patient care, for the improvement and promotion of public health and public education.

Philanthropy
2
Pitch in

Established in 2011 by retired Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood, and his wife Sarah, Pitch In (fka Wood Family Foundation) seeks to improve the lives of children in four high-need neighborhoods in Chicago: North Lawndale, Humboldt Park,…

Philanthropy
3
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Michigan

Providing patient support, community connections, education and advocacy.

Health
4
Dte Beacon Park Foundation
Recreation & Sports
5
Max Factor Family Foundation
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6
Lutheran Homes of Michigan Foundation

Motivated by christ's love, we engage people as they experience and embrace their god-given potential.

Housing & Shelter
7
Millennium Park Foundation

The organization's mission is to provide support to the city of chicago in its operation and programming of millennium park, and serve as the park's curators.

Recreation & Sports
8
M David and Diane Paul Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
10
Michigan Montessori Intenationale Inc

Children will discover their unique potential by living the Montessori lifestyle hand in hand with parents and staff.

Education
11
Dte Energy Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vista Maria; the most unlike its peers is Grosse Pointe Park 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

12 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. 12 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $164,000 · OtherCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLST CLARE OF MONTEFALCO SCHOOL: $135,500 · OtherST CLARE OF MONTEFALCO SCHOOLST CLARE OF MONTEFALCO CHURCH: $52,500 · OtherST CLARE OF MONTEFALCO CHURCHVISTA MARIA: $40,000 · OtherVISTA MARIADETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $35,000 · OtherDETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INCGROSSE POINTE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 · OtherFAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE: $20,000 · Other+10 more: $59,750 · Other+10 moreMothers Trust Foundation: $82,000 · Human ServicesMothers Trust Fo…The Beacon Place NFP: $16,500 · Human ServicesThe Beacon Place…GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION: $24,000 · PhilanthropyNO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS: $10,000 · HealthART IMPACT PROJECT NOT FOR PROFIT: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentWARM HEARTS FOUNDATION: $7,000 · InternationalELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Arts & CultureCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $1,000 · Religion
Other$526,750Human Services$98,500Philanthropy$24,000Health$10,000Youth Development$7,000International$7,000Arts & Culture$6,500Religion$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$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 budgetCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
  • Who funds GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds NO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS ↗
  • Who funds ART IMPACT PROJECT NOT FOR PROFIT ↗
  • Who funds WARM HEARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAX SCHEWITZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗

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 …The Gorter Family Fou…The Grainger Foundati…The Chicago Community…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irene M & Milton R Weed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 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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