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Weaver Family Private 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $454k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAGUNA ART MUSEUM | $453,875 |
| FIELD MUSEUM | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $41,000 |
| LAGUNA BEACH CULTURAL ART CENTER | $30,000 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE LAGUNA BEACH | $20,000 |
| HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| LAGUNA COLLEGE LCAD | $15,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP SHELTER LAGUNA BEACH | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF OCSB | $10,000 |
| PITZER COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| SOUTH COAST REPERTORY | $6,000 |
| ARC AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE ALIG | $5,300 |
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 (FY17–25, $456k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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 +37% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- LALAGUNA ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +46%
- ALAssistance League of Laguna Beach9× · 2017–2025 · $420k · revenue +100%
BEREA COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- WTWriters Theatre Incone grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +8%
- OIORKEESWA INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
- LBLAGUNA BEACH FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2017 · $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.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Laguna Playhouse and the most unlike its peers is Mpala Wildlife Foundation Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 78 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 LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Laguna Beach ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH CULTURAL ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds IMPACT GIVING ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH LIVE ↗
- Who funds SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · The Donald and Constance Sperling Foundation · Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · The Bassman Family Charitable Trust · O L Halsell Foundation · Greater Horizons · Engle Family Foundation · Masson-Shaffer Family 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 Weaver Family Private 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.
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% 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.
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