How much does The Weil Foundation give?

The Weil Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $285,229 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 95 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Weil Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Food & Nutrition (12%), Health (12%).

Who are The Weil Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Duke University ($420k), The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc ($158k), Nutritionfactsorg Inc ($82k).

Does The Weil Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Weil Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Weil Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Landfall Foundation Inc, The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation, North Carolina Community Foundation.

Where is The Weil Foundation based?

The Weil Foundation is based in NC.

The Weil Foundation

The Weil Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Weil 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.

$285k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$541kFood & Nutrition$273kHealth$262kArts & Culture$237kAnimals$190kRecreation & Sports$84kEnvironment$77kPublic Safety & Disaster$76kOther$0

02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k43 grants · $86k
$10k–50k14 grants · $199k

$2,105

Median grant

States reached

$6.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NEW HANORVER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION	$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC	$20,888
NUTRITION FACTS	$20,203
AUDUBON SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA	$15,488
THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC	$15,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$15,000
CONVOY OF HOPE	$15,000
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA	$11,250
HANGTIME BRIDGEPORT CAREER RESOURCES	$10,462
SERIOUS FUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK	$10,395
PAYPAL GIVING FUND	$10,051
DUKE UNIVERSITY	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER	$10,000
CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$5,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 120 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

120 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120

113

Total granted

$1.9M

$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

Still filing today

64%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

DUKE UNIVERSITY
7× · 2017–2025 · $420k · revenue +51%
TM
THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC
5× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +65%
NI
Nutritionfactsorg Inc
8× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +88%

Funded once

NH
NOVANT HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $25k
IR
International Rescue Committee INC
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -4%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $10k

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.

National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health

Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Fighting Chance Ranch & Rescue. 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

144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 245 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

142/144

Grantees still filing

93/144

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$962,208Education$494,285Arts & Culture$229,672International$180,833Health$171,498Food & Nutrition$151,747Recreation & Sports$65,696

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

The Landfall Foundation IncNC33.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Landfall Foundation Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · 522 Foundation Inc · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Eshelman 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 Weil Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Weil Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

18get no government money at all

39report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home