· Private foundation
Mary Ruth Weisel 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, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $889k
- $250k+1 grant · $479k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEMCAC | $479,337 |
| ALLINA FOUNDATIONCOURAGE KENNY GRANT #2 | $138,700 |
| WAYSIDE RECOVERY GRANT #1 | $100,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS GRANT #1 | $100,000 |
| TUBMAN GRANT #2 | $100,000 |
| SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES GRANT #1 | $90,000 |
| THE POWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES GRANT #2 | $50,000 |
| TUBMAN GRANT #3 | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| WAYSIDE RECOVERY GRANT #2 | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD-NORTH CENTRAL STATES | $50,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS GRANT #2 | $50,000 |
| ALLINA FOUNDATIONCOURAGE KENNY GRANT #1 | $31,433 |
| ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS GRANT #4 | $30,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $574k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Mary Ruth Weisel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 73%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 21 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, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +13%- WRWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +0%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- AFALLINA FOUNDATIONCOURAGE KENNYone grant, 2024 · $50k
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +19%
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.
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Located in raleigh, nc, the spca of wake county works in over half the state of north carolina through collaborative partnerships that save pets and help people. significant activities include: decreasing the number of animals entering…
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.
The organization is a no-kill animal rescue. paws saves lives and prevents suffering by implementing the no-kill philosophy through aggressive spay/neuter programs for owned and unowned animals. this is accomplished by rescuing, fostering,…
To prevent the suffering and death of companion animals and to enrich the human-animal bond by providing excellent, accessible, and affordable spay/neuter and veterinary care.
Protection of animal rights
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 32 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 SEMCAC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HOWLING FOR WOLVES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
- Who funds POWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUAMORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE DANCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN PET SANCTUARY INC ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Ruth Weisel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Ruth Weisel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Equamore Foundation: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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