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Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund at a glance

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Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund

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.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
73
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$281kEducation$166kPhilanthropy$116kReligion$73kHuman Services$44kHousing & Shelter$42kHealth$33kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k72 grants · $132k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$7,500
MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK$7,500
REVITALIZE MISSISSIPPI$7,500
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI$7,000
NEW STAGE THEATRE$7,000
INSTITUE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE$7,000
SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$7,000
ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$6,500
BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
OPERATION SHOE STRING$4,000
MILSAPS COLLEGE$3,500
RELIEF EFFORTS FOR CALIFORNIA WILDF$3,500
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 (FY18–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH CHILDRENS REGIONAL SERVICE: $500 → 15%JEWISH CHILDRENS REGIONAL SERVICE: $500 → 15%JEWISH CHILDRENS REGIONAL SERVICE: $500 → 15%JEWISH CHILDRENS REGIONAL SERVICE: $500 → 15%JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $500 → 15%METHODIST CHILDRENS HOMES OF MISSIS: $200 → 23%OPERATION SHOE STRING: $4k → 23%OPERATION SHOE STRING: $4k → 23%OPERATION SHOE STRING: $4k → 23%OPERATION SHOE STRING: $3k → 23%OPERATION SHOE STRING: $3k → 23%OPERATION SHOE STRING: $1k → 23%OPERATION SHOE STRING: $800 → 23%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $400 → 23%OPERATION SHOESTRING: $400 → 23%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $400 → 23%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $400 → 23%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $400 → 23%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $200 → 23%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $100 → 23%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $7k → 23%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $7k → 23%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $7k → 23%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $7k → 23%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $5k → 23%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $3k → 23%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $3k → 23%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $3k → 23%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
UT
VA
MD
KS
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$878k · 88 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

88 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
22

Total granted

$878k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+25%

Still filing today

57%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • MM
    MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +17%
  • MS
    MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $54k · revenue +55%
  • WF
    WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI
    8× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • MC
    Mississippi College
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • CO
    COMMUNITY OF GREATER JACKSON
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
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
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…

Religion
5
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…

Education
6
Mississippi Children's Museum

We create unparalleled experiences to inspire excellence and a lifelong joy of learning.

Arts & Culture
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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9
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
10
The German Marshall Fund of the United States

The german marshall fund of the united states (gmf) strives to champion democratic values and the transatlantic alliance by strengthening civil society, forging bold and innovative policy ideas, and developing a new generation of leaders…

International
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Revitalize Mississippi 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

58 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. 58 of the 118 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
39/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $46,500 · OtherST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOLCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $37,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $32,050 · OtherSMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ARTSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $24,800 · OtherUSA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION: $22,000 · OtherINSTITUE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $21,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $20,250 · Other+75 more: $257,180 · Other+75 moreMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC: $103,100 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF AR…MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $54,475 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORC…INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $32,150 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JE…+10 more: $12,810 · Arts & Culture+10 moreMillsaps College: $83,800 · EducationMillsaps Coll…Tougaloo College: $9,000 · EducationTougaloo Coll…Piney Woods School: $8,300 · EducationPiney Woods S…Mississippi College: $7,500 · EducationMississippi C…UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $5,300 · Education+2 more: $1,710 · EducationWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $41,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $2,500 · Human Services+3 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesMISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC: $30,100 · Food & NutritionFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: $8,400 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL AREA INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,600 · Philanthropy+1 more: $250 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $12,800 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,900 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,450 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $950 · International
Other$500,280Arts & Culture$202,535Education$115,610Human Services$66,000Food & Nutrition$30,100Philanthropy$19,250International$17,100

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 budgetMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC: $103,100 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetMillsaps College: $83,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $54,475 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $46,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $41,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $32,150 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC: $30,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $24,800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUSA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION: $22,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $19,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetREVITALIZE MISSISSIPPI INC: $14,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNEW STAGE INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $12,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $9,150 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTougaloo College: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: $8,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPiney Woods School: $8,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL AREA INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMacular Degeneration Association: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMississippi College: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $5,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $4,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER EASTOVER NEIGHBORHOOD FOUNDATION INC: $3,700 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEudora Welty Foundation Inc: $2,800 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST: $1,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,510 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER MISSISSIPPI: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,310 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMPB FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $600 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds Millsaps College ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SHOESTRING INC ↗
  • Who funds REVITALIZE MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW STAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Tougaloo College ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds Macular Degeneration Association ↗
  • Who funds Mississippi College ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗

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 …Selby and Richard McR…Ergon Foundation IncWK Kellogg FoundationThe Dick Molpus Found…Phil Hardin FoundationWalker FoundationMississippi Humanitie…James H Creekmore Sr …Hf McCarty Jr Family …T H Etheridge TrustFeild Co-Operative As…
Community Foundation for MississippiMS65.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Ergon Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Dick Molpus Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Walker Foundation · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation · Hf McCarty Jr Family Foundation · T H Etheridge Trust · Feild Co-Operative Association

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 Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 118 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home