· Private foundation
The Gerhard & Patricia Weiler 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of THE GERHARD & PATRICIA WEILER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF MCC FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WOODSTOCK FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORS FOOD PANTRY OF WONDER LAKE | $5,000 |
| HEBRON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| CRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| HARVARD FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| MORE CENTER FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| ALGONQUIN-LAKE IN THE HILLS INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF RICHMONDSPRING GROVE | $5,000 |
| GRAFTON FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| TLS VETERANSVETERANES PATH TO HOPE | $4,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE HEALTH & THERAPY | $2,000 |
| TURNING POINT | $2,000 |
| HOME OF THE SPARROW | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WFWoodstock Food Pantry5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +690%
- GTGrafton Township Food Pantry5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +5%
- AIALGONQUIN-LAKE IN THE HILLS INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
- POPUBLIC ORGANIZATION ANIMAL SHELTER SIRIUSone grant, 2022 · $6k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To prevent animal suffering and neglect throughout our community and beyond, and to ensure that all animals in shelters and homes are well cared for and treated with compassion.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
The champaign county humane association owns and operates the paws animal shelter. the mission is to provide food and shelter to abandoned and strayed animals.
Operation of Animal Shelter
Providing a safe and loving shelter to cats and dogs until their permanent adoptive home is found.
The organization rescues animals and cares for them until they can find them qualified homes.
Rescue, care, and adoption services for pets
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
Pet Network rescues adoptable animals from euthanasia, connects abandoned animals with loving families, instills respect for animals through humane education, and enhances lives through animal companionship.
To fill the needs of countless animals and their families by providing access to veterinary medical care, food, shelter, supplies, and other resources to keep animals happy, healthy, and out of shelters.
UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.
The prevention of cruelty to animals and promotion of animal welfare through rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming of abandoned or abused pets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Interfaith Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Salt River Wild Horse Management Group Inc. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Woodstock Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds Grafton Township Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds ALGONQUIN-LAKE IN THE HILLS INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Hebron Community Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds RAUE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds Independence Health & Therapy ↗
- Who funds GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Center for Human Services ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Pets for Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSISI ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY HELPING PAWS ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ON ANGELS WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds HOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for McHenry County · Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · AbbVie Foundation · Full Circle Foundation · Foglia Family Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bersted Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Baxter International Foundation
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 The Gerhard & Patricia Weiler 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.
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.
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