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The Weiss Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$818k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$124k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$6.6MEducation$1.3MHealth$960kInternational$520kArts & Culture$472kYouth Development$452kPhilanthropy$61kCommunity Improvement$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $257k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $441k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP STONE$123,500
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$100,000
SHEATUFIM$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALPERT JFS: $500 → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $5k → 11%CHILDREN'S BRIDGE OF ZICHRON MANACHEM: $5k → 17%CHILDREN'S BRIDGE OF ZICHRON MANACHEM: $4k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S BRIDGE OF ZICHRON MENACHEM INC: $4k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S BRIDGE OF ZICHRON MENACHEM INC: $4k → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10.0M · 52 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
46

Total granted

$10.0M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+3%

Still filing today

44%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationReligionHealthPhilanthropyArts & 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

  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    5× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +39%
  • TN
    The New School
    4× · 2019–2022 · $260k · revenue +12%
  • OT
    Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel
    3× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • YB
    YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • TS
    The Shalem Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +85%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Sherit Isroel
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3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
7
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
8
The Jerusalem Connection
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9
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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10
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
11
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
12
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

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.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 126 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
33/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREEN ROAD SYNAGOGUE: $5,612,694 · OtherGREEN ROAD SYNAGOGUECLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $900,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONSHEATUFIM: $650,000 · OtherSHEATUFIMCAMP STONE: $430,500 · Other+81 more: $1,245,379 · Other+81 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT KOL TZOFAYICH: $451,540 · Youth DevelopmentThe New School: $260,000 · EducationSaint Martin de Porres High School: $20,000 · Education+6 more: $28,000 · EducationThe Musical Arts Association: $265,000 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCentral Fund of Israel: $94,500 · InternationalRELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC: $68,250 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $35,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $26,000 · InternationalKOL HANEARIM INC: $19,200 · InternationalNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $14,000 · International+6 more: $22,000 · InternationalOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $160,000 · ReligionAmerican Friends of Puah Inc: $13,500 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $11,000 · ReligionFriends of Ruach Hanegev: $7,800 · Religion+4 more: $5,800 · ReligionPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $125,900 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $24,200 · PhilanthropyJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $8,500 · Philanthropy+5 more: $23,018 · Philanthropy
Other$8,838,573Youth Development$451,540Education$308,000Arts & Culture$290,000International$278,950Religion$198,100Philanthropy$181,618

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT KOL TZOFAYICH: $451,540 over 7y, 28% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $265,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe New School: $260,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $160,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSESAME STREET INC: $150,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $125,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $94,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC: $68,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $52,540 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $24,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKOL HANEARIM INC: $19,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH: $19,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDRENS BRIDGE OF ZICHRON MENACHEM INC: $16,700 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $15,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Puah Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNLI USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $9,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Ruach Hanegev: $7,800 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMEDWISH MEDWORKS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelters for Israel: $6,600 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,018 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYULA HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIDRESHET HAROVA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAIMONIDES HERITAGE CENTER LTD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Irving I Stone Founda…Jewish Communal FundJewish Federation of …Combined Jewish Phila…FjcThe Joseph and Floren…Richard Horvitz and E…Jack Joseph & Morton …The Albert B & Audrey…The Cleveland Foundat…Jewish Federation of …Sapirstein-Stone-Weis…
Irving I Stone FoundationOH28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%8%17%30%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
    8get no government money at all
    9report 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

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    How do I get to The Weiss Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Weiss 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 126 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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