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Wein 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.

$196k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,600
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 17
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Wein Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
InternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$142k71%
FY202310$84k60%
FY202211$251k45%
FY20216$78k33%
FY202017$110kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$433kInternational$300kCivil Rights$92kEducation$76kArts & Culture$32kEnvironment$27kReligion$13kHealth$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
DC
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($176k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wein Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Israel Education Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $100,346 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Institute for Near East Policy: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Elnet: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $2,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeshet Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Veritas: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Israel Forever Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tikvah Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Dynamo Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpendor Media Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJew in the City A NJ Nonprofit Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetProject Hood Community Development Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Wein Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wein 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.

About Wein Family Foundation

How much does Wein Family Foundation give?
Wein Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $196,369 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Wein Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), International (30%), Civil Rights (9%).
Who are Wein Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($250k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($100k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($28k).
Does Wein Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wein Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wein Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Wein Family Foundation based?
Wein Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 40 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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