· Private foundation
Weikart Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| INSIDE OUT LITERARY ART | $15,000 |
| ADRIAN ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| ISLESFORD BOAT WORKS | $15,000 |
| ROCKING THE BOAT | $10,000 |
| APPALACHIAN LIBRARY INITIATIVE | $6,600 |
| READ TO A CHILD | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +28% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- WHWORKSHOP HOUSTON4× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +28%
- MVMOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO2× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +2%
- APAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2020 · $18k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- GAGLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue ×17 · 32% of their budget
- YPYOUNG PEOPLES THEATERone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +22%
- PAPARTNERSHIP APPALACHIAN GIRLS EDone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
American youthworks (ayw) annually provides 400+ young adults with training and resources to build careers and strengthen their communities through education, paid career training, and national service. ayw programs prepare participants…
Young Playwrights Theater (YPT) is committed to using theater & writing to foster dialogue, arts education, literacy & conflict resolution in communities.
Wonderworks educates students to become better-qualified college applicants and better equipped to succeed in undergraduate studies by exploring challenging subject matter and techniques in a college setting.
The mission of React is to create original theatre with youth that reacts to social issues of the world. The vision of React is to build a more empathetic and empowered world through theatre. React works with hundreds of students from…
Youth artistic and leadership development and education
Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.
Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…
Arts for learning indiana brings the arts to your school community to champion creative learning, innovate education, and transform lives.
Young Auidiences (YA) mission is to inspire young peope and expand their learning through the arts. Arts education is who we are and what we do. The work of the board, staff, and teaching artists is guided by a vision of a future in which…
To inspire, expand learning, and strengthen our community through engagement with the arts.
The mission of Writers in the Schools (WITS) is to connect children and youth with professional writers and spoken word artists to unlock the joy and power of storytelling and creative expression.
Yma's mission is to provide young people with a unique personal experience in the visual and performing arts, where they share creative interests in a positive environment that builds confidence, enhances self-esteem and reinforces a sense…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mountain View Elementary School Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 33 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 WORKSHOP HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PEOPLES THEATER ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds JODIE RANDOLPH DANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ISLESFORD BOATWORKS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG DANCERS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO A CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds UKULELE KIDS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR YOUTH ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Weikart 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Eli Whitney Museum Inc — 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.