· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of KRISTINA KAYSER & LOWELL WEINER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOL OF AMERICAN MUSIC | $6,900 |
| MICHIANNA HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,030 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $1,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF COBB COUNTY | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR | $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 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK6× · 2018–2023 · $11k · revenue +252%
- FGFOOD GATHERERS6× · 2018–2023 · $10k · revenue +85%
- CHCORNER HEALTH CENTER6× · 2018–2023 · $7k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- COCHIKAMING OPEN LANDSone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- SOSCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2024 · $2k
- GCGRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -48%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Corner Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Grand Circle Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 HURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds The Drake House Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds GRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Neighbor by Neighbor ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF COBB COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds Children's Restoration Network ↗
- 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 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kristina Kayser & Lowell Weiner Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.