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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$6,600
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$100,000
UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH$38,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$16,719
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$6,600
TIKVAH$6,250
ELNET-US (DBA FOR FRIENDS OF ELNET)$5,000
ISRAEL FOREVER FOUNDATION$2,000
BARUCH HASHEM FOUNDATION INC$1,800
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
DC
OK
FL
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 21% of Wein Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wein 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$568k · 10 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
20

Total granted

$568k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+44%

Still filing today

60%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalCivil RightsPublic BenefitEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +2%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +30%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $28k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL ENERGY EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +17%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
The Jerusalem Connection
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3
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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8
Sherit Isroel
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9
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
10
New Israel Fund

The new israel fund (nif) helps israel live up to its founders' vision of a society that ensures complete equality to all its inhabitants. our aim is to advance liberal democracy, including freedom of speech and minority rights, and to…

International
11
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
12
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc

The international fellowship of christian and jews is the leading non-profit building bridges between christians and jews, blessing israel and the jewish people around the world with, humanitarian care and life-saving aid.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Federation of Utah; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

31 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. 31 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
25/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $240,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100,346 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH: $68,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAHTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $24,468 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATI…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $20,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST…FRIENDS OF ELNET: $15,000 · International+6 more: $15,300 · InternationalSTAND WITH US: $85,000 · OtherSTAND WITH USISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION: $75,000 · OtherISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELL…INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL ENERGY EDUCATION INC: $25,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF GLOBAL ENER…+17 more: $29,660 · Other+17 moreFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ISRAEL FOREVER FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureRush University Medical Center: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5,000 · Civil RightsKESHET INC: $2,000 · Civil RightsGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$432,914International$300,300Other$214,660Arts & Culture$30,000Health$10,000Civil Rights$7,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $240,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100,346 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH: $68,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $24,468 over 3y, 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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $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
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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

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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.

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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