· Private foundation
Richard L & Lois S Werner Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k62 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY - ISRAEL EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY - GENERAL FUND | $50,000 |
| PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL | $15,000 |
| LYNN UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL | $10,600 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND - GENERAL FUND | $10,000 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION | $5,000 |
| LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY - LION OF JUDAH CAMPAIGN | $5,000 |
| MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION - KEEPING THE PROMISE FUND | $5,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPERTUS INSTITUTE OF JEWISH LEARNING & LEADERSHIP | $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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +25%- DRDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +32%
FRACTURED ATLAS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $50k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY - HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEFone grant, 2017 · $3k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY-HURRICANE FLORENCE RECOVERY FUone grant, 2018 · $3k
- JNJEWISH NATIONAL FUND - ISRAEL RESILIENCE FUNDone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rosalind Oppenheim Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 151 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds LINKS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Vets Helping Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 L & Lois S Werner 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Caridad Center 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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