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The Weingarten Family Foundation at a glance

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The Weingarten 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.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$42kReligion$28kArts & Culture$19kEnvironment$4kHealth$2kRecreation & Sports$2kYouth Development$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$227k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CampLauncher Inc$20,000
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagogue$15,000
Charleston Gaillard Center$5,000
The Frick Collection$2,000
American Associates of National Theatre$1,500
College of Charleston Women's Golf$1,500
Helping Hands Ministries$1,000
SHARE OUR SUZY LOWCOUNTRY$1,000
Make a Wish$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Helping Hands Ministries: $1k → 9%SHARE OUR SUZY LOWCOUNTRY: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54k · 5 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$54k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+20%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CI
    CAMPLAUNCHER INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +44%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +10%
  • CH
    Charleston Horticultural Society
    2× · 2021–2022 · $4k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • P
    POISE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +95%
  • TM
    The Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -55%
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.

1
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Chamber Music Charleston

Chamber Music Charleston is dedicated to developing the audience for classical music through chamber music concerts and educational programs of the highest caliber.

Arts & Culture
5
Charleston Literary Festival Inc

Charleston Literary Festival, Inc. produces a curated, annual program of events with a distinctly international flavor in the historic setting of Charleston, South Carolina. It brings together world class authors and speakers on a variety…

Arts & Culture
6
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
7
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art

The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…

Arts & Culture
8
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
9
Acmg Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine

Support the american college of medical genetics and genomics' (acmg) educational mission to "translate genes into health" by raising funds to attract the next generation of medical geneticists and genetic counselors, to sponsor important…

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10
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention

The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention was incorporated in 2002 in the State of New York as a non-for-profit organization to provide individuals, many of whom are medically underserved - with access to the highest quality…

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12
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Sc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Camplauncher Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagogue: $15,000 · OtherKahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagogueKAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM: $12,050 · OtherKAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIMPOISE: $10,000 · OtherPOISEThe Frick Collection: $2,000 · OtherAmerican Associates of National Theatre: $1,500 · OtherCollege of Charleston Women's Golf: $1,500 · Other+3 more: $2,200 · OtherCAMPLAUNCHER INC: $30,000 · EducationCAMPLAUNCHER INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIACOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC: $6,900 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIEN…CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON GAI…The Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundation: $1,000 · Arts & CultureThe Martha and…INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL …Charleston Horticultural Society: $3,680 · EnvironmentHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $1,200 · Human ServicesSHARE OUR SUZY LOWCOUNTRY: $1,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $180 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 · HealthBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $200 · Youth Development
Other$44,250Education$42,000Arts & Culture$13,900Environment$3,680Human Services$2,200Health$1,280Youth Development$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMPLAUNCHER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC: $6,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Horticultural Society: $3,680 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Coastal Community Fou…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Weingarten Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Weingarten Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Weingarten Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Weingarten 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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