· Private foundation
Richard and Diane Weinberg Family 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DIANE STILWELL WEINBERG FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| USC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS | $71,500 |
| WESTMARK SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| NCSY - RELIEF MISSIONS | $25,000 |
| CAMP KIDS ARE KIDS CHICAGO | $22,500 |
| GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| DANCE READY INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO TAP THEATRE | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE ETZ CHAIM (ETZ CHAIM SYNAGOGUE) | $10,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES INC | $10,000 |
| MCDANIEL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| GARRY GEKHMAN FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
45 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- LWLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $103k · revenue +22%
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +34%
- CHChicago Human Rhythm Project4× · 2021–2024 · $43k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TTTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +86%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue -11%
- ISILLINOIS ST ANDREW SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.
Ballet Chicago is a professional track school of ballet that creates exceptional dancers. It makes classical ballet training accessible to all. Its founders Daniel Duell and Patricia Blair carry on George Balanchines legacy by providing…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Timeline Theatre Company and the most unlike its peers is Dance Ready Inc. 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.
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 34 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 90 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 THE DIANE STILWELL WEINBERG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP KIDS ARE KIDS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Chicago Human Rhythm Project ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GUS GIORDANO'S JAZZ DANCE CHICAGO INC D/B/A GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Chicago Tap Theatre NFP ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP ↗
- Who funds TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE SERVICE CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Dancing Classrooms Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre ↗
- Who funds ORCAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds DANCE READY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAPPINESS CLUB ↗
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: Judd a and Marjorie Weinberg Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · Walder Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund
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 Richard and Diane Weinberg 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.
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% 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.
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