Michigan · Private foundation
Weikart Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $92k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Weikart Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $92k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $110k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $90k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $105k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $115k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $92k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $72k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $96k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop Houston | $82,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Kynder & Jentler Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Global Alliance of Community Science Workshops | $30,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Young Peoples Theater | $30,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Mountain View Elementary School PTO | $25,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Eli Whitney Museum Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Girls Who Code Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mountain Projects Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jodie Randolph Dance | $19,850 | 1 | 35% |
| American Prairie Foundation | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop Houston | $82,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Kynder & Jentler Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Global Alliance of Community Science Workshops | $30,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Young Peoples Theater | $30,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Mountain View Elementary School PTO | $25,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Eli Whitney Museum Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Girls Who Code Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mountain Projects Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jodie Randolph Dance | $19,850 | 1 | 35% |
| American Prairie Foundation | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Appalachian Literacy Initiative | $16,600 | 2 | 3% |
| Young Dancers Initiative | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Islesford Boatworks | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Audiences Inc of Houston | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Miracle Meadows Ranch | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rocking the Boat Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Read to a Child Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ukulele Kids Club Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Crossroads for Youth | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($459k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Weikart Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Weikart Family Foundation
- How much does Weikart Family Foundation give?
- Weikart Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $91,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Weikart Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Youth Development (23%), Education (20%).
- Who are Weikart Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Workshop Houston ($82k), Kynder & Jentler Foundation Inc ($40k), Global Alliance of Community Science Workshops ($30k).
- Does Weikart Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Weikart Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Weikart Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Weikart Family Foundation based?
- Weikart Family Foundation is based in MI.
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