· Private foundation
The David and Lynne Weinberg 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL- BELFER CENTER | $250,000 |
| COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS | $50,000 |
| COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THORNWILLOW INSTITUTE LTD | $15,000 |
| PKD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS | $10,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $10,000 |
| SF MARIN FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $10,000 |
| THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS | $10,000 |
| THE PENN FUND - UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $5,000 |
| THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL | $5,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND | $5,000 |
| JUDD A AND MARJORIE WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES-NORTHWESTERN UNI | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION2× · 2022–2023 · $400k · revenue -3%
- HKHARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL- BELFER CENTER4× · 2021–2025 · $400k
- TCTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $195k · revenue +248%
Funded once
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -1%- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +15%
- EIErikson Institutegraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +47%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THORNWILLOW INSTITUTE LTD ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
- Who funds CPS LIVES NFP ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The David and Lynne Weinberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David and Lynne Weinberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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