Michigan · Private foundation
S Evan and Gwen Weiner 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.
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $631k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $58k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $79k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $56k | 95% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Country Day School | $115,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Henry Ford Health System | $87,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple Beth El | $31,100 | 3 | n/a |
| Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival | $19,550 | 3 | 1% |
| Starfish Family Services Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stripping for a Cure | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tanielle Miller Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation · Karp Family Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation
- How much does S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation give?
- S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $57,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (29%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Detroit Country Day School ($115k), Henry Ford Health System ($88k), Temple Beth El ($31k).
- Does S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation, United Jewish Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
- Where is S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation based?
- S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation is based in MI.
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