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The Weiner 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.

$373k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$388kInternational$367kPhilanthropy$150kHuman Services$104kReligion$98kAnimals$71kEducation$53kArts & Culture$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEFFERSON HOSPITAL$85,000
THE SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH HIDDEN INTELLIGENCE$25,000
TRIBE 12$18,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA$18,000
ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL$18,000
PATHWAYS PA$15,000
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY$15,000
BOOKSMILES$14,000
BEYOND THE BARS$12,500
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
CYBERWELL$10,000
FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION$10,000
MOISHE HOUSE$10,000
THE SPAYED CLUB$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CRADLE OF HOPE: $3k → 7%CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE: $8k → 14%THE SEEING EYE: $1k → 4%CRADLE OF HOPE: $2k → 7%DOMESTIC ABUSE PROJECT OF DELAWARE COUNTY: $5k → 10%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $18k → 10%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 14%CRADLE OF HOPE: $500 → 7%PATHWAYS PA: $15k → 10%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 14%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $15k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $2k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $2k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $1k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $1k → 7%DAWNS PLACE: $10k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
DC
HI
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$872k · 30 repeat orgs$403k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
26

Total granted

$872k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+28%

Still filing today

67%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k 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
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthInternationalReligionEducationOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $196k · revenue +206%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    2× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +41%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $48k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -59%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -45%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
3
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
4
Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services
5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion
8
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
9
The Jewish Women's Archive Inc

The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…

Arts & Culture
10
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
11
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
12
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc

Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%8%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr17%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr15%51%35–55yr17%11%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,106

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEFFERSON HOSPITAL — $215,000 · OtherJEFFERSON HOSPITALSOCIETY HILL SYNAGOGUE — $56,000 · OtherSOCIETY HILL SYNAGOGUESERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH HIDDEN INTELLIGENCE — $25,000 · Other+37 more — $270,595 · Other+37 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $196,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID…POLARIS PROJECT — $95,000 · InternationalPOLARIS PROJECTFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $60,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $20,000 · International+2 more — $8,000 · InternationalCOVENANT HOUSE INC — $47,700 · HealthCOVENANT H…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $17,000 · HealthTHE CHILDR…AUTISM SPEAKS INC — $16,000 · HealthAUTISM SPE…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $13,500 · HealthPLANNED PA…FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthFOR PETE'S…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 · HealthCROHN'S & …TRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK — $7,000 · HealthTRI-COUNTY…SHIR FOR LIFE INC — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL — $18,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY — $15,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS PA INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesDAWN'S PLACE — $10,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $9,500 · Human ServicesSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc — $5,800 · Human ServicesDomestic Abuse Project of Delaware County Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesCradle of Hope Inc — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY — $10,500 · AnimalsSTRAY CAT RELIEF FUND — $10,000 · AnimalsPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE SPAYED CLUB — $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $10,000 · AnimalsGREEN STREET RESCUE — $7,213 · AnimalsTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $5,000 · AnimalsWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $3,500 · Animals+2 more — $1,500 · AnimalsTRIBE 12 — $18,000 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE — $10,000 · ReligionTHE LERHAUS INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Religion
Other$566,595International$379,000Health$126,700Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$99,300Animals$67,713Religion$38,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $196,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT — $95,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE INC — $47,700 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH HIDDEN INTELLIGENCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRIBE 12 — $18,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $17,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPATHWAYS PA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND THE BARS INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY — $10,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTRAY CAT RELIEF FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVENTURE FOUNDATION LTD — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SPAYED CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAWN'S PLACE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA — $8,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPANGEASEED FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetKB FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN STREET RESCUE — $7,213 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc — $5,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHIR FOR LIFE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDomestic Abuse Project of Delaware County Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCradle of Hope Inc — $5,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Connelly FoundationGenuardi Family Found…The Cigna Group Found…United Way of Greater…The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…The Saramar Charitabl…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Wsfs Cares FoundationChubb Charitable Foun…Aetna Foundation IncRenaissance Charitabl…
Connelly FoundationPA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connelly Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Weiner 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Booksmiles a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Weiner Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Weiner Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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