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The Weiss Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$773kArts & Culture$217kHealth$169kCommunity Improvement$50kSocial Science$25kEducation$25kReligion$20kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$13,359
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATESERVICE$20,000
BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY$13,359
BALI CHILDREN FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WORLDWIDE IMPACT NOW (WIN): $38k → 11%JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATESERVICE: $110k → 8%GREEN SCHOOL: $5k → 16%EAGLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%SAN DIEGO OUTREACH SYNAGOGUE: $20k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%FILM FORUM INC: $10k → 17%SEAL LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%JOINT HELP FOR KURDISTAN: $20k → 16%GEORGE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $20k → 17%BALI CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WORLDWIDE IMPACT NOW (WIN): $30k → 11%JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATESERVICE: $30k → 8%EAGLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%GEORGE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%WORLDWIDE IMPACT NOW (WIN): $30k → 11%JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATESERVICE: $20k → 8%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%GEORGE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%WORLDWIDE IMPACT NOW (WIN): $30k → 11%JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATESERVICE: $20k → 8%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $105k → 14%WORLDWIDE IMPACT NOW (WIN): $30k → 11%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $55k → 14%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $50k → 14%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $50k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%WORLD CONNECT INC: $25k → 17%BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $50k → 14%REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $13k → 14%THE UNITED STATES-INDONESIA SOCIETY: $25k → 14%THE UNITED STATES-INDONESIA SOCIETY: $15k → 14%TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE UNITED STATES-INDONESIA SOCIETY: $15k → 14%WOODSON CENTER: $25k → 14%THE UNITED STATES-INDONESIA SOCIETY: $15k → 14%COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW: $15k → 14%THE UNITED STATES-INDONESIA SOCIETY: $10k → 14%COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW: $10k → 14%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

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 12 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$1.1M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+78%

Still filing today

67%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
InternationalHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • BE
    BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $323k · revenue +5%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $150k · revenue +18%
  • RI
    REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • WC
    WOODSON CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -21%
  • TM
    TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +179%
  • WC
    WORLD CONNECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +64%
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
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
2
Us - China Policy Foundation
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3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
George Hw Bush Foundation for Us-China Relations
International
5
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
6
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
8
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
9
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Institute for Eastwest Studies Inc

Eastwest institute (ewi) works to reduce international conflict, addressing seemingly intractable problems that threaten world security and stability. (continued on schedule o)

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12
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Ditchley Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bali Children 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

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $323,359 · InternationalBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITYCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $150,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INCThe United States - Indonesia Society: $80,000 · InternationalThe United States - Indonesia SocietyREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 · InternationalTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US): $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CONNECT INC: $25,000 · International+2 more: $7,500 · InternationalJEWISH NEWS SYNDICATESERVICE: $180,000 · OtherJEWISH NEWS SYNDICATESERVICEWORLDWIDE IMPACT NOW (WIN): $162,500 · OtherWORLDWIDE IMPACT NOW (WIN)GEORGE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTE: $75,000 · OtherGEORGE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY HEART & VASCULAR INS…HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATIONCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW: $25,000 · OtherJOINT HELP FOR KURDISTAN: $20,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO OUTREACH SYNAGOGUE: $20,000 · Other+4 more: $12,500 · OtherWOODSON CENTER: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationBALI CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 · HealthOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthTHE EAGLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFILM FORUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION: $1,700 · Arts & Culture
International$640,859Other$565,000Community Improvement$25,000Education$25,000Health$24,000Philanthropy$15,000Arts & Culture$11,700

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 budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $323,359 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States - Indonesia Society: $80,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US): $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetWORLD CONNECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EAGLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN DITCHLEY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBALI CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Weiss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • National Park Trust Inc: 51% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Weiss 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 27 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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