· Private foundation
The Weisberg 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSPIRING MINDS | $10,000 |
| MIRIAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS | $5,000 |
| THE VILLAGE COMMON OF RI | $5,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| THE DRAMA THERAPY FUND | $1,500 |
| GAMM THEATRE | $1,500 |
| PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $1,500 |
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $1,000 |
| JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $1,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND | $500 |
| DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RI | $500 |
| RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Weisberg Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
53 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +86%- PVPROVIDENCE VILLAGE OF RHODE ISLAND5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +257%
Trinity Repertory Company7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- RCRHODY CENTER FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2019 · $2k
- DFDANA FARBER CANCER AND THE JIMMY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $300
- VSVolunteer Services for Animalsgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100 · revenue +174%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
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…
The rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
Promote businesses through the organization of various meetings, functions, and programs.
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.
The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference
The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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. 35 of the 63 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE VILLAGE OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING MINDS ↗
- Who funds SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Community Libraries of Providence ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds TOCKWOTTON HOME ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Amoskeag Health ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF MARIN ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation · The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein Foundation · Ress Family Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · The Sand 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 Weisberg 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.