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The Weinstein 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.

$127k
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Civil Rights$194kHuman Services$180kInternational$110kHealth$75kPhilanthropy$56kEducation$56kArts & Culture$13kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k54 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$499k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NAGEN PROJECT$75,000
IMPACT ISRAEL$12,500
THRIVE SCHOLARS$10,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$3,500
GRATEFUL HEARTS MANCHESTER$2,500
NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL$1,800
OAKSTONE ACADEMY$1,100
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON$1,037
THE PAP CORPS$1,036
JAFCO CHILDREN'S ABILITY CENTER$1,030
WRITE BOSTON$1,030
PAWLET VOL FIRE DEPT$1,000
MSPCA$541
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER$535
TOUR DE SLATE$533
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 (FY19–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $528 → 10%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $776 → 12%JAFCO CHILDREN'S ABILITY CENTER: $2k → 13%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $517 → 12%JAFCO CHILDREN'S ABILITY CENTER: $2k → 13%HOPE AND COMFORT: $2k → 7%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $517 → 12%JAFCO CHILDREN'S ABILITY CENTER: $2k → 13%HOPE AND COMFORT: $2k → 7%JAFCO CHILDREN'S ABILITY CENTER: $1k → 13%HOPE AND COMFORT: $2k → 7%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $500 → 12%JAFCO CHILDREN'S ABILITY CENTER: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $500 → 12%JAFCO CHILDREN'S ABILITY CENTER: $1k → 13%HOPE AND COMFORT: $1k → 7%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $500 → 12%HOPE AND COMFORT: $1k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT: $1k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT: $1k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%YAD CHESSED FUND: $5k → 8%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $4k → 7%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $4k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $4k → 7%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $4k → 7%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $4k → 7%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $4k → 7%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $25k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $20k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $7k → 8%WELLSELEY HILLS JUNIUOR WOMENS CLUB: $200 → 7%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $100 → 8%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

VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
KS
DC
TX
FL

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$585k · 51 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
82

Total granted

$585k
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • TN
    THE NAGEN PROJECT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $184k · revenue +210%
  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $84k · revenue +64%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON
    5× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BOSTON
    one grant, 2019 · $59k
  • FF
    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +102%
  • IF
    INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -93%

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
Boston Architectural College

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

2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

10
Jgs Lifecare Corporation

Non-profit organization dedicated to improving the physical, spiritual and emotional health of individuals and families.

Health
11
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund and the most unlike its peers is Uncle Kory Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Environmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%34%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/97
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,468

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

92 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 158 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/92
Grantees still filing
60/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NAGEN PROJECT INC — $183,750 · Civil RightsTHE NAGEN PROJECT INCCOMBAT HATE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $131 · Civil RightsJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BOSTON — $58,600 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BOSTONJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $12,680 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVIC…NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL — $11,562 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $10,932 · OtherINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC — $10,000 · OtherNETWORK FOR GOOD — $12,875 · OtherNETWORK FOR GOOD+102 more — $108,588 · Other+102 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON — $56,600 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY…FRESHMAN FRESH START INC — $24,000 · Human ServicesFRESHMAN FRESH S…HOPE AND COMFORT INC — $8,600 · Human ServicesHOPE AND COMFORT…JAFCO Children's Ability Center Inc — $8,538 · Human ServicesJAFCO Children's…PINE STREET INN INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesYAD CHESSED FUND INC — $5,000 · Human Services+4 more — $4,299 · Human ServicesIMPACTISRAEL INC — $83,681 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL IN…Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $15,000 · InternationalFoundation for …THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC — $5,000 · International+1 more — $540 · InternationalTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $30,000 · EducationWriteBoston Inc — $19,120 · EducationHEBREW COLLEGE — $3,000 · Education+6 more — $2,190 · EducationBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $28,611 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $9,750 · HealthHOPE HOUSE INC — $1,700 · Health+10 more — $4,707 · HealthCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $15,700 · PhilanthropyJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON — $12,175 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $4,108 · Philanthropy+8 more — $3,526 · Philanthropy
Civil Rights$193,881Other$225,237Human Services$113,037International$104,221Education$54,310Health$44,768Philanthropy$35,509

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC — $183,750 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $83,681 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON — $56,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $28,611 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRESHMAN FRESH START INC — $24,000 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetWriteBoston Inc — $19,120 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $15,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $12,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $12,680 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON — $12,175 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $10,932 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMBAT HATE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $9,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC — $8,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJAFCO Children's Ability Center Inc — $8,538 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $7,329 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP YAVNEH INC — $6,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREUT USA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYAD CHESSED FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $4,303 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $4,274 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $4,108 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC — $3,310 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $3,043 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRATEFUL HEARTS MANCHESTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $2,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $2,037 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC — $1,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC — $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND — $1,267 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPawlet Volunteer Fire Department IN C — $1,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetABACO-WINDING BAY RELIEF FUND INC — $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NOAH BENJAMIN REISMAN FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFANATICS ALL IN FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA TENNIS ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $868 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAND'S SAKE INC — $798 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $750 over 3y, 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.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA34.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beker Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Susan & Barry E Tatelman Family Foundation · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation

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 Weinstein 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 320%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc20% of income from government
  • Hope House Inc13% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital5% of income from government
  • Tri-County Human Services Inc4% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc4% of income from government
  • Land's Sake Inc3% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc1% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
32get no government money at all
10report 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, FY2025

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 Weinstein Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Weinstein 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 158 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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