· Private foundation
James & Minerva Weiss 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLEEDING DISORDERS ALLIANCE ILLINOIS | $12,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| KOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO7× · 2017–2023 · $72k · revenue +13%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +58%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TJTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INCone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +4%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $250
- SLSQUALL LINE PARTNERS 27-1668423one grant, 2017 · $46
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.
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
To advance anthropology as the science that studies humankind in all its aspects, through archeological, biological, ethnological, and linguistic research; and to further the professional interest of american anthropologist, including the…
To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
To promote and advance the microbial sciences
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
To enhance both the global competitiveness of u.s. business and the u.s. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.
How this is measured
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 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Bleeding Disorders Alliance Illinois ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRITECH NFP ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James & Minerva Weiss Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James & Minerva Weiss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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