· Private foundation
The Weg Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of The Weg Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Weg Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $61k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k14 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Miscellaneous under 1000 | $15,441 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,600 |
| Kahal Shaarei Tefillah | $5,000 |
| Bais Yaakov of Baltimore | $4,000 |
| Mesivta of Long Beach | $3,630 |
| Torah Institute of Baltimore | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Ner Israel | $3,500 |
| Degel Hatorah | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| Friends of Darchei Rochel Inc | $1,800 |
| Bais Yaakov Chofetz Chaim | $1,608 |
| Tomche Shabbos of Rockland County | $1,500 |
| Zichron Yaakov Special Fund | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% 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.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2017, 3 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VLVARIOUS LESS THAN 50007× · 2019–2025 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipient8× · 2017–2025 · $86k
- TITORAH INSTITUTE OF BALTIMORE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $35k
Funded once
- BHBAIS HAVAAD HALACHA CENTERone grant, 2024 · $30k
- MUMiscellaneous under 1000one grant, 2017 · $15k
- YOYESHIVAS OHR REUVENone grant, 2025 · $14k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 25 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.
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · The Weiskopf Family Foundation · The R & D Foundation Inc · Zichron Avroham Moshe Foundation · Kitov Foundation · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Toras Chesed Inc · The Jmg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Weg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Weg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nachlas Bais Yaakov: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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