· Private foundation
Kristina Kayser & Lowell Weiner Family 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOL OF AMERICAN MUSIC | $6,900 |
| MICHIANNA HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,030 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $1,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF COBB COUNTY | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $1,000 |
| WNIT PUBLIC TV MICHIANA | $480 |
| ACORN THEATER | $213 |
| NEW BUFFALO LIBRARY | $115 |
| NEW BUFFALO RR MUSEUM | $103 |
| LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $60 |
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 (FY19–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 91% 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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK6× · 2018–2023 · $11k · revenue +252%
- FGFOOD GATHERERS6× · 2018–2023 · $10k · revenue +85%
- CHCORNER HEALTH CENTER6× · 2018–2023 · $7k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- COCHIKAMING OPEN LANDSone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- NBNEW BUFFALO SERVICE LEAGUEone grant, 2024 · $2k
- SOSCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
Food service for the poor, economically disadvantaged, and elderly.
Circle of concern feeds the hungry and provides assistance to low-income families living in west st. louis county.
The mission of the cooperstown food pantry is to address issues of poverty and hunger in otsego county.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 39 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 SCHOOL OF AMERICAN MUSIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds CORNER HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds HURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds The Drake House Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds Neighbor by Neighbor ↗
- Who funds GRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF COBB COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Children's Restoration Network ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NEW BUFFALO RAILROAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kristina Kayser & Lowell Weiner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kristina Kayser & Lowell Weiner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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