· Private foundation
The Weiner-Ellman 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY | $21,561 |
| YOUTH JOB CENTER | $12,655 |
| NORTHLIGHT THEATRE | $8,793 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,060 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART | $1,150 |
| EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER | $624 |
| CHERRY PRESCHOOL | $515 |
| CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDEN | $439 |
| Individual grant recipient | $371 |
| IFAWORG | $300 |
| ASPCA | $300 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS AFFORDABLE HOUSING | $259 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY | $250 |
| HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS | $206 |
| CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 13 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +197%
- YJYOUTH JOB CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +29%
- WWWARREN W CHERRY PRESCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
We pursue bold solutions to end animal agriculture and foster just and compassionate vegan living through education and policy advocacy.
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 101 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.
- Who funds MICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH JOB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN W CHERRY PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Felines Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP ↗
- Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY ON WATER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds Motley Zoo Animal Rescue ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Kellcie Fund · Northwestern University · AbbVie Foundation · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · Evanston Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Francis Beidler Foundation · Finnegan Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Weiner-Ellman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
How this is measured
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