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The Morris Weiser Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE 200 CLUB OF GREATER MIAMI | $14,000 |
| JACK MILLERCENTER | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| GASTROINTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| CASA LAKE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| JUSTICE FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING | $1,000 |
| 12 STEP HOUSE | $1,000 |
| HISTORY OF MIAMI MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE OF THE ARTS | $850 |
| ALS UNITED GREATER NY | $600 |
| GALENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $500 |
| GIFTS MENS SHELTER | $250 |
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 (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- GIGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +209%
CASA LAKE COUNTY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +79%- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND3× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- TITHE ISRAEL PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $5k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -51%
- AAAscendant Academyone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -73%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wayne Thomas Pto Nfp. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Ascendant Academy ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RICHARD SCHOENSTADT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRUTCHES 4 KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE THOMAS PTO NFP ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GALENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Morris Weiser 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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