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Weber Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORS IN NEED | $54,000 |
| ESPERANZA ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| MCCNY CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| MERRIMAC HEIGHTS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ANDOVER COMMUNITY TRUST | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER | $5,000 |
| BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS | $2,500 |
| MELMARK | $2,000 |
| WOMANKIND | $2,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $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 (FY18–23, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% 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 5% of Weber 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC7× · 2018–2024 · $246k · revenue +803%
LAZARUS HOUSE INC5× · 2018–2022 · $210k · revenue +4%
ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue +464%
Funded once
- ECESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +30%
- GGGLOBAL GIVINGone grant, 2020 · $12k
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Partnership housing, inc. brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
To help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.
Hhc's mission is to improve the lives of homeless children and their families. hhc provides homeless children in massachusetts with the nurturing, stimulation and opportunities for early education and play that all children need to learn…
All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 16% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 56 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 NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MCCNY Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRIMAC HEIGHTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATED THOUGHT INC ↗
- Who funds ANDOVER COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLES PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER KIDS OF MERRIMACK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Firewheel STEM Institute ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Belknap House ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
- Who funds SA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SISTER SEASON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rogers Family Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Artemas W Stearns Trust · Josephine G Russell Trust · Demoulas Foundation · Abbot & Dorothy H Stevens Foundation · RCB Charitable Foundation Inc · Aaf Charitable Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance 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 Weber 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
- Partners in Child Development Inc — 31% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.
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