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Robert Lee Weiss Foundation 15-3002252 at a glance

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Robert Lee Weiss Foundation 15-3002252

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$212kHousing & Shelter$208kReligion$170kYouth Development$116kHuman Services$92kEducation$84kFood & Nutrition$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF$22,000
INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC$20,000
KNOX COUNTY ASSOCIATION$13,000
KNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR$12,000
YOUNG LIFE$7,500
EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION$7,000
TN BAPTIST ADULT HOME$6,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF$6,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$5,000
CARECUTS INC$5,000
Remote Area Medical$5,000
OPERATION INASMUCH$4,000
SENIOR CITIZENS HOME$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
KING COLLEGE INC$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TN BAPTIST ADULT HOME: $10k → 4%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $10k → 10%CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%BIG BROTHERS BIG: $5k → 12%KING COLLEGE INC: $8k → 15%TN BAPTIST ADULT HOME: $6k → 4%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $5k → 10%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $5k → 10%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $5k → 10%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF: $11k → 12%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $5k → 10%Remote Area Medical: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF: $6k → 12%Remote Area Medical: $5k → 10%Remote Area Medical: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF: $5k → 12%VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER: $8k → 12%YOUNG LIFE: $15k → 12%CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF: $40k → 12%BAPTIST COLLEGIATE: $8k → 12%CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF: $22k → 12%YOUNG LIFE: $8k → 12%CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF: $20k → 12%YOUNG LIFE: $7k → 12%CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF: $20k → 12%YOUNG LIFE: $7k → 12%CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF: $20k → 12%YOUNG LIFE: $7k → 12%CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF: $20k → 12%YOUNG LIFE: $7k → 12%OPERATION INASMUCH: $8k → 12%INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC: $38k → 12%INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC: $20k → 12%INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC: $18k → 12%INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC: $18k → 12%INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC: $18k → 12%INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC: $18k → 12%EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $13k → 12%Cerebral Palsy Housing Corporation: $7k → 12%EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%Cerebral Palsy Housing Corporation: $7k → 12%Cerebral Palsy Housing Corporation: $7k → 12%EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%THE SALVATION ARMY: $6k → 12%EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 31 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
2

Total granted

$1.0M
$6k

Still filing today

42%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterInternationalReligionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IH
    INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +104%
  • KH
    KNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $79k · revenue +18%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • BC
    BAPTIST COLLEGE MINISTRY
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • CP
    CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
National Church Residences At Home Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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2
National Church Residences At Home Health and Wellness Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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3
National Church Residences At Home Hospice

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

—
4
National Church Residences At Home Hospice Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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5
Christian Church Homes

Cch builds and manages quality affordable housing in caring communities.

—
6
Christian Community Health Services

Provide medical services to the underprivileged

Health
7
Transylvania Christian Ministry Inc

A faith based organization operating as a crisis ministry that assists county residents with heat, utilities, shelter, food, and clothing.

—
8
Ncr At Home Health and Wellness

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

—
9
Christian Care Retirement Apartments Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve

—
10
Baptist Community Health Services Inc

Motivated by the love and compassion of christ and in keeping with our baptist heritage, bchs provides quality primary healthcare and behavioral healthcare to individuals in medically underserved communities.

Health
11
Christian Housing-Cottonwood Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.

Housing & Shelter
12
Knox Area Rescue Ministries Inc

To restore lives of our homeless neighbors through christ-centered support.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteer Ministry Center; the most unlike its peers is Cerebral Palsy Housing Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF: $142,000 · OtherCENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OFKNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $79,000 · OtherKNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCKNOX COUNTY ASSOCIATION: $67,000 · OtherKNOX COUNTY ASSOCIATIONCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF: $37,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OFSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $35,000 · OtherTN BAPTIST ADULT HOME: $32,000 · OtherJOHNSON UNIVERSITY: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $28,000 · OtherKING COLLEGE INC: $28,000 · OtherCEREBRAL PALSY HOUSING CORPORATION: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · Other+12 more: $131,800 · Other+12 moreINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER: $130,000 · HealthINTERFAITH HEALT…SHANGRI-LA THERAPEUTIC ACADEMY OF RIDING INC: $15,000 · HealthSHANGRI-LA THERA…HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $8,000 · HealthYOUNG LIFE: $51,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $44,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD YOU…KNOXVILLE INNER CITY KIDS OUTR: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentKNOXVILLE I…REMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $35,000 · InternationalVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER: $28,000 · Housing & ShelterBreakthrough Corporation D/B/A Autism Breakthrough of Knoxville: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterOperation Inasmuch Inc: $28,000 · ReligionCARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $28,000 · Education
Other$659,800Health$153,000Youth Development$109,500International$35,000Housing & Shelter$32,000Religion$28,000Education$28,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER: $130,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $79,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $51,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $44,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Inasmuch Inc: $28,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER: $28,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY HOUSING CORPORATION: $28,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetSHANGRI-LA THERAPEUTIC ACADEMY OF RIDING INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKNOXVILLE INNER CITY KIDS OUTR: $14,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLADIES OF CHARITY KNOXVILLE: $8,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARECUTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBreakthrough Corporation D/B/A Autism Breakthrough of Knoxville: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
  • Who funds Operation Inasmuch Inc ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SHANGRI-LA THERAPEUTIC ACADEMY OF RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE INNER CITY KIDS OUTR ↗
  • Who funds LADIES OF CHARITY KNOXVILLE ↗
  • Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CARECUTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Corporation D/B/A Autism Breakthrough of Knoxville ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…Trinity Health Founda…East Tennessee Founda…Akima Club IncBill and Crissy Hasla…The Melrose FoundationUniversity Health Sys…Lawson Family Foundat…The Clayton Homes Fou…Haslam Family Foundat…Jane L Pettway Founda…Gene & Florence Monda…
United Way of Greater KnoxvilleincTN24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · East Tennessee Foundation · Akima Club Inc · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · The Melrose Foundation · University Health System Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Jane L Pettway Foundation · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert Lee Weiss Foundation 15-3002252 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert Lee Weiss Foundation 15-3002252. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Robert Lee Weiss Foundation 15-3002252 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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