· Private foundation
Oberweis Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $20,000 |
| SIUE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HESED HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FUNDATION FOR GOVERMENT ACCTABILITY | $5,000 |
| ZETA HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MARMION ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LEE HEALTH | $1,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| HARRY CHAPTIN FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $500 |
| WONDER GARDENS | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF B E R T | $500 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION | $25 |
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 (FY20–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +299% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- PHPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION3× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +299%
- PAPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE2× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +14%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS2× · 2023–2024 · $40k
Funded once
- EWEverglades Wonder Gardensone grant, 2020 · $50k
- KGKids Golf Foundationone grant, 2021 · $12k
- MSMaryknoll Sistersone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
APGs mission is to assist accountable physician groups to improve the quality and value of healthcare provided to patients. APG represents and supports physician groups that assume responsibility for clinically integrated, comprehensive,…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
We provide students, educators, practitioners, and partners with the resources they need to enter the field, develop their careers, and form professional friendships that can last a lifetime. through annual and ongoing programs, events,…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 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. 18 of the 37 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 PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Avery Coonley School ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE NATION UNDER GOD ↗
- Who funds AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds From the Barrio Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BONITA WONDER GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds United American Patriots Inc ↗
- Who funds Abate of Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: The Rich Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Oberweis 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
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.