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Weigand Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$277k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$253k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$601kPublic Benefit$370kRecreation & Sports$60kReligion$45kHuman Services$15kEnvironment$11kArts & Culture$10kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $253k
$14,950
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE$252,542
WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$14,950
THE SEACHANGE AGENCY$10,000
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 (FY18–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RAINBOWS UNITED: $15k → 16%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Weigand Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 91%.

Weigand Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$950k · 5 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$950k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+24%

Still filing today

60%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • KP
    KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $403k · revenue +55%
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $210k
  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    5× · 2018–2022 · $160k

Funded once

  • ST
    ST THOMAS AQUINAS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • E
    EMPOWERED
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • HS
    HOLY SAVIOR CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
2
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
3
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
4
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.

Education
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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9
Texas Wesleyan University

Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…

Education
10
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
11
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita State University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Seachange Agency. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $402,542 · EducationKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTEYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $150,000 · EducationYouth Entrepreneurs IncUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $60,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacWICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $27,450 · Education+2 more: $21,500 · EducationAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: $210,000 · OtherAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITYCATO INSTITUTE: $160,000 · OtherCATO INSTITUTEST THOMAS AQUINAS: $25,000 · OtherST THOMAS AQUINASEMPOWERED: $20,000 · OtherHOLY SAVIOR CHURCH: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $4,000 · OtherRAINBOWS UNITED INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEACHANGE AGENCY: $10,000 · AnimalsMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $2,000 · PhilanthropyUJUMP INC: $4,000 · Youth Development
Education$661,492Other$439,000Human Services$15,000Animals$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Philanthropy$7,000Youth Development$4,000

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 budgetKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $402,542 over 5y, 11% of budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $27,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOWS UNITED INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEACHANGE AGENCY: $10,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUJUMP INC: $4,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $1,000 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.

Laham Family Foundati…Berry Foundation IncTextron Charitable Tr…K T Wiedemann Foundat…Ima FoundationNaftzger Fund for Fin…DeVore Foundation IncGoebel Family-Star Lu…Bruce G Cochener Foun…Lattner Family Founda…Commerce Bancshares F…Vanguard Charitable E…
Laham Family FoundationKS17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Laham Family Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc · DeVore Foundation Inc · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Bruce G Cochener Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Weigand Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Weigand 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 20 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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