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Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$422k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.3MEducation$310kHealth$283kHuman Services$235kSocial Science$100kPublic Benefit$93kPhilanthropy$66kCivil Rights$62kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$70,000
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE$50,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$15,000
BOCA INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL$15,000
JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS$11,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$10,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
TURNING POINT USA$10,000
THE SYMPHONIA$10,000
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY$10,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
BEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $11k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $15k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $3k → 16%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $10k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $3k → 16%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $9k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%LEVIS JCC: $25k → 11%ADOLPH AND ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20k → 11%ADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%ADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 76 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

76 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
25

Total granted

$3.4M
$301k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+25%

Still filing today

78%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TA
    THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +63%
  • MM
    Mainly Mozart Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +31%
  • NC
    NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $91k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • B1
    BUILDING 178 PERFORMING ARTS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +480%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR ARTS AND INNOVATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -90%
  • HL
    HOLOCAUST LEARNING AND EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -76%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
2
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
3
San Diego Theatres Inc

San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…

Arts & Culture
4
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
Old Globe Theatre

The mission of the old globe is to preserve, strengthen and advance american theatre by: creating theatrical experiences of the highest professional standards; producing and presenting works of exceptional merit, designed to reach current…

Arts & Culture
7
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre

Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.

Arts & Culture
8
Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts Inc

To provide a vibrant performing arts center that generates and promotes excellence in the performing arts and enhances the quality of life in the region by offering outstanding and diverse entertainment, including events of cultural and…

Arts & Culture
9
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
10
San Diego Ballet

Excite, entertain and enrich diverse audiences.

Unclassified
11
Presidio Theatre

The mission of the presidio theatre is to ensure that the magic of live performance is accessible to the entire community.

Philanthropy
12
Museum of Arts and Design

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

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Opera Association and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPalm Beach County Community…Family Philanthropic Founda…Policy Research and AdvocacyMilitary & Veteran SupportSan Diego Community SupportPerforming Arts Education
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/91
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,887

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/90
Grantees still filing
65/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $450,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA…Mainly Mozart Inc — $170,000 · Arts & CultureMainly Mozart IncSan Diego Opera Association — $125,000 · Arts & CultureSan Diego Opera AssociationNORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE — $91,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRELAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+27 more — $671,000 · Arts & Culture+27 moreTHE OLD GLOBE — $125,000 · OtherTHE OLD GLOBESAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $100,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INCSALK INSTITUTE — $60,000 · OtherRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $50,000 · OtherTHE SYMPHONIA — $46,000 · OtherPACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION — $45,000 · OtherCYGNET THEATRE — $45,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW — $40,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $40,000 · OtherTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $40,000 · OtherHOLOCAUST LEARNING AND EDUCATION FUND INC — $50,000 · Other+39 more — $510,000 · Other+39 moreFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 · EducationFLORIDA AT…SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationPRAGER UNI…BEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationBEST FOOT …LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA — $25,000 · EducationLIBRARY AS…+2 more — $11,000 · EducationBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $100,000 · Community ImprovementBUILDING 178 PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $75,000 · Community ImprovementSCRIPPS HEALTH — $65,000 · HealthRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $40,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Health+3 more — $11,000 · HealthADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC — $6,000 · Human Services+2 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropyPATRONS OF THE PRADO — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyRotary Camp Pendleton Foundation fka Pendleton Community Service Fund — $5,000 · PhilanthropyBOCA RATON POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,657,000Other$1,191,000Education$341,000Community Improvement$175,000Health$156,000Human Services$145,000Philanthropy$94,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $450,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetMainly Mozart Inc — $170,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Opera Association — $125,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE — $91,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBUILDING 178 PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE — $75,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPlaywrights Project — $50,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ARTS AND INNOVATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST LEARNING AND EDUCATION FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCYGNET THEATRE COMPANY — $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW — $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetREUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER — $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE — $31,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBOCA INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCREATIVE CITY COLLABORATIVE OF DELRAY BEACH INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO COMIC CONVENTION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS — $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPATRONS OF THE PRADO — $25,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMALASHOCK DANCE & COMPANY — $25,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wick Theatre & Costume Museum Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Jewish Community Foun…Samuel I & John Henry…Pratt Memorial FundPrice Philanthropies …Sempra FoundationThe Parker FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Walter J & Betty C Za…The Cushman FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…
The San Diego FoundationCA58.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Nordson Corporation 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 Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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