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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
WRITE BOSTON$1,030
JAFCO CHILDREN'S ABILITY CENTER$1,030
PAWLET VOL FIRE DEPT$1,000
MSPCA$541
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER$535
TOUR DE SLATE$533
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.

show:

Its 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. Its 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%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%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $4k → 7%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $4k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%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%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
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

VT
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IN
PA
NJ
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RI
CA
CO
MD
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FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

+52%
+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
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

  • 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%
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
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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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.…

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

92 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. 92 of the 158 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/92
Grantees still filing
61/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCAPITAL AREA TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFANATICS ALL IN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NOAH BENJAMIN REISMAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $868 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAND'S SAKE INC: $798 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $750 over 3y, 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Cambridge Savings Cha…The Beker FoundationThe Hamilton Company …American Tower Corpor…The Klarman Family Fo…Jewish Communal FundSusan & Barry E Tatel…Joseph and Rae Gann C…
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

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 Weinstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Weinstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 320%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Hope House Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Tri-County Human Services Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Land's Sake Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% 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, 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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 158 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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