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The Weiss Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $257k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $441k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP STONE | $123,500 |
| SHEATUFIM | $100,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $61,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $56,115 |
| OHR TORAH STONE | $35,000 |
| OU-JLIC | $33,500 |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| RENEWAL | $25,000 |
| SESAME STREET | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT KOL TZOFAVICH | $17,400 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $13,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $12,500 |
| B'NEI AKIVA OF US AND CANADA | $12,500 |
| HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND | $12,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- TMThe Musical Arts Association5× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +39%
- TNThe New School4× · 2019–2022 · $260k · revenue +12%
- OTOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel3× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $20k
- YBYESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAHone grant, 2021 · $18k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Religious School
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cleveland 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 126 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT KOL TZOFAYICH ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds SESAME STREET INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds KOL HANEARIM INC ↗
- Who funds PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BRIDGE OF ZICHRON MENACHEM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Puah Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
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: Irving I Stone Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fjc · The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Penni M and Stephen J Weinberg Family Fund · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Sapirstein-Stone-Weiss 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 Weiss 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.
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.
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