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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202025.

Education$120kHealth$93kPhilanthropy$34kArts & Culture$32kHuman Services$11kCommunity Improvement$2kFood & Nutrition$2kInternational$2kYouth Development$1kOther$75k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$631k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY FORD HEALTH$15,000
COREWELL HEALTH$10,000
TEMPLE BETH EL$5,000
STRIPPING FOR A CURE$5,000
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY$5,000
GREAT LAKES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL$3,000
CHAD TOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION$3,000
GREAT LAKES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL$1,800
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$1,000
TEMPLE BETH EL$500
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$500
JACKSON HOLE PUBLIC ART$500
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$500
HEBREW FREE LOAN$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHAD TOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $500 → 21%ACCESS: $1k → 21%CHRIST CHILD HOUSE: $500 → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$291k · 11 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
22

Total granted

$291k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

73%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther

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

  • DC
    DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2024 · $115k · revenue +20%
  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    4× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +39%
  • GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -15%
  • TM
    TANIELLE MILLER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +128%
  • TD
    THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
2
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education
3
United Jewish Foundation

The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…

Philanthropy
4
Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor

The federation provides and inspires philanthropic leadership and community-building to nurture a strong, engaged, connected, vibrant, and enduring jewish community locally, in israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy
5
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
6
Fresh Air Society

Tamarack camps, established by the fresh air society, builds a vibrant community by providing enriching jewish camping experiences for children and families, respectful of financial ability.

Recreation & Sports
7
Jsl Foundation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Human Services
8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

10
Jfa Non-Profit Housing Corporation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Housing & Shelter
11
Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights
12
Leonard and Diane Sherman Family Foundation

The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational and/or religious purpose of, the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, and the foundation as authorized in…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Philanthro…Performing Arts Organizatio…Youth Academic & Career Dev…Hospital Health SystemsEducation Foundations and S…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 47 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr13%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr12%3%35–55yr13%84%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
17%
2,883/16,575

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.

04the grantee network

28 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
11/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $115,000 · EducationDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLJEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — $5,000 · EducationHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $87,500 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMSTRIPPING FOR A CURE — $5,000 · HealthSTRIPPING FOR A CURE+1 more — $750 · HealthTEMPLE BETH EL — $31,100 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELTHE HENRY FORD — $25,000 · OtherTHE HENRY FORDCOREWELL HEALTH — $10,000 · OtherCOREWELL HEALTH+19 more — $13,030 · Other+19 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $25,750 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…TANIELLE MILLER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTANIELLE M…GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $2,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETO…+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyGREAT LAKES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL — $19,550 · Arts & CultureGREAT LAK…DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $5,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT S…THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETRO…THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $600 · Arts & CultureSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT — $500 · Human ServicesFOCUSHOPE — $500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOUSE FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Community Improvement
Education$120,000Health$93,250Other$79,130Philanthropy$33,750Arts & Culture$32,150Human Services$10,500Community Improvement$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $115,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $87,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $25,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT LAKES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL — $19,550 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTANIELLE MILLER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSE FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSHOPE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy FoundationVA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 S Evan and Gwen Weiner 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 88%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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