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Ron Samantha and Michael Weiner Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ron Samantha and Michael Weiner Family Foundation Inc

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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

International$76kFood & Nutrition$23kHuman Services$18kHealth$13kEducation$7kPhilanthropy$7kCivil Rights$4kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$73k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDING AMERICA$7,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH$5,500
SAVE THE CHILDREN$5,000
UNITED VETERANS OF FLORIDA$4,600
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,200
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$2,000
CARE USA$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
BOCA RATON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,250
ACLU FOUNDATION$1,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$1,000
FEED THE CHILDREN$1,000
SMILE TRAIN$1,000
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS$1,000
OPERATION SMILE$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
SD
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$139k · 21 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$139k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+16%

Still filing today

62%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +190%
  • Mercy Ships International
    4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +87%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • NK
    NO KID HUNGRY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +16%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +4%
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
5
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
9
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
10
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
11
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
12
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit 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

24 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. 24 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Save The Children Federation Inc: $30,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25,290 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMMercy Ships International: $11,000 · InternationalMercy Ships InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $3,000 · International+2 more: $3,500 · InternationalFEEDING AMERICA: $13,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICACARE USA: $7,500 · OtherCARE USAUNITED VETERANS OF FLORIDA: $6,900 · OtherUNITED VETERANS OF FLORIDABOCA RATON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,750 · OtherBOCA RATON HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $3,600 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,500 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,500 · OtherST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL: $2,500 · Other+10 more: $7,950 · Other+10 moreWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,250 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $1,000 · EducationPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $3,500 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Civil Rights
International$72,790Other$55,200Human Services$7,500Philanthropy$6,700Education$4,250Food & Nutrition$3,500Civil Rights$2,500

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 budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25,290 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 50: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ron Samantha and Michael Weiner Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ron Samantha and Michael Weiner Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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.
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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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