· Private foundation
Richard and Diane Weinberg Family 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS | $94,300 |
| THE DIANE STILWELL WEINBERG FOUNDATION | $48,000 |
| GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP | $30,000 |
| WESTMARK SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| NCSY - RELIEF MISSIONS | $25,000 |
| CAMP KIDS ARE KIDS CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| JOFFREY BALLET | $25,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| ANSHE SHOLOM B'NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $13,600 |
| TEMPLE SHOLOM OF CHICAGO | $12,200 |
| GARRY GEKHMAN FOUNDATION INC | $11,000 |
| TIMELINE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| MCDANIEL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO HUMAN RHYTHM PROJECT | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $284k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LWLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $133k · revenue +22%
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +34%
- TJTHE JOFFREY BALLET4× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TTTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +86%
- ISILLINOIS ST ANDREW SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $13k
- OCORCAS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -2%
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.
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.
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.
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…
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 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…
Miami new drama is a nonprofit professional theater company based in miami beach, florida, dedicated to the development and production of new theatrical work and to theater-making as a means of social engagement, cultural conversation, and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
How this is measured
51 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. 51 of the 95 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 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 THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP ↗
- Who funds Chicago Human Rhythm Project ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Tap Theatre NFP ↗
- Who funds GUS GIORDANO'S JAZZ DANCE CHICAGO INC D/B/A GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE SERVICE CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds Dancing Classrooms Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds THE HAPPINESS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Livnot ULehibanot ↗
- Who funds ORCAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard and Diane Weinberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Diane Weinberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mcdaniel College Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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