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Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Foundation at a glance

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Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$98k
Granted FY2020
26
Grants FY2020
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Oregon Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $98k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$3.4MCrime & Legal$220kArts & Culture$116kHealth$107kInternational$18kReligion$9kScience & Tech$9kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2020 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k24 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$200
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,200
KRAVIS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS$1,000
TEMPLE ISRAEL$1,000
FUND FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM$800
KADIMA$500
NEW ISRAEL FUND$300
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$300
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$300
ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL$225
AMERICAN RED CROSS$200
USA FOR UNHCR$200
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$200
Individual grant recipient$150
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BOYS TOWN: $50 → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $800 → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 8%AJC: $200 → 8%AJC: $100 → 8%JARC: $2k → 8%JARC: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
TN
DC
LA
AL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$483k · 34 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2020, 24 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
20

Total granted

$483k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+43%

Still filing today

68%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • LF
    LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $220k · revenue +42%
  • RA
    RECESS ACTIVITIES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $104k · revenue +41%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • SH
    SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2018 · $500
  • BC
    BERMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • OA
    ORT AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -30%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
3
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
4
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
United Israel Appeal Inc

The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…

International
7
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
8
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
9
Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International
10
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
11
Global Communities

Global communities brings together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives and secure strong futures.

International
12
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

47 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. 47 of the 76 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
36/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Horizons: $1,089,385 · PhilanthropyGreater HorizonsTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,089,385 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1,089,384 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+2 more: $96,250 · PhilanthropyLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $220,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $300 · Crime & LegalKARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $101,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $8,500 · OtherTHE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: $6,463 · Other+39 more: $22,867 · OtherRECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $104,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,900 · Arts & CultureNEW ISRAEL FUND: $8,800 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,400 · InternationalDETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $800 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $750 · International+7 more: $1,150 · InternationalJARC: $3,300 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2,300 · Human ServicesORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $1,800 · Human Services+2 more: $250 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $800 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $300 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $300 · HealthDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $250 · Health
Philanthropy$3,364,404Crime & Legal$220,300Other$178,830Arts & Culture$115,900International$15,900Human Services$7,650Health$1,650

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 budgetGreater Horizons: $1,089,385 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,089,385 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1,089,384 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $220,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $104,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $96,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $8,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJARC: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKADIMA: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $460 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $215 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $50 over 1y, 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.

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.

United Jewish Foundat…Harold and Penny B Bl…Marjorie and Maxwell …Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Jewish FoundationMI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Jewish Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 76 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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