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The Lorne Weil Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Lorne Weil Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$213k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$217kReligion$172kInternational$33kSocial Science$10kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BERKSHIRE SCHOOL$75,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL$50,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$30,000
WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY$5,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$1,543
Individual grant recipient$1,065
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BERKSHIRE SCHOOL: $75k → 12%TEMPLE CHAVERIM: $2k → 6%THE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $1k → 9%METRPOLITAN SYNAGOGUE: $12k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER: $1k → 9%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $50k → 11%WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY: $22k → 9%ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $20k → 7%OPERA NORTH: $2k → 10%BERKSHIRE SCHOOL: $25k → 12%AIDS WALK NY: $2k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $50k → 11%WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY: $20k → 9%BERKSHIRE SCHOOL: $25k → 12%AIDS WALK NY: $1k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $50k → 11%WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY: $19k → 9%AIDS WALK NY: $1k → 17%FREEDOM HOUSE: $25k → 14%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $50k → 11%WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY: $18k → 9%FRENCH INSTITUTE ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%FREEDOM HOUSE: $5k → 14%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $50k → 11%WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY: $13k → 9%IFILAF INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS: $5k → 17%WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%TRINITY SCHOOL: $200k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $200k → 17%COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL: $18k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $100k → 17%COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL: $18k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $25k → 17%COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL: $15k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $30k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $30k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $30k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25k → 17%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 14 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$1.5M
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+27%

Still filing today

43%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TS
    TRINITY SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $550k
  • TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue -16%
  • MO
    METROPOLITAN OPERA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $215k

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAUL'S SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +127%
  • MS
    METROPOLITAN SYNAGOGUE OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the Lawrenceville School; the most unlike its peers is Opera North. 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

12 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. 12 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY SCHOOL: $550,000 · OtherTRINITY SCHOOLMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $215,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERAWOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY INC: $111,500 · OtherWOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY INCUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: $44,364 · OtherMETROPOLITAN SYNAGOGUE OF NY: $43,000 · Other+9 more: $55,094 · Other+9 moreTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $125,000 · EducationTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INCTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN T…ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationFREEDOM HOUSE: $30,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $2,543 · InternationalMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $1,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthSOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC: $650 · HealthOPERA NORTH: $1,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,018,958Education$595,000International$32,543Health$3,150Arts & Culture$1,500Philanthropy$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $2,543 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA NORTH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital ↗
  • Who funds OPERA NORTH ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds SOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lorne Weil Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lorne Weil Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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