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Weinbergnewton 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.

$407k
Granted FY2023
38
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$519kEducation$307kHealth$178kArts & Culture$157kCrime & Legal$154kCivil Rights$126kInternational$118kReligion$104kOther$0
02FY2023 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $297,917, the rows itemized in this filing. The $407,417 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $109,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k27 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sky Arts$45,000
Noble Network of Charter Schools$30,000
Roger Baldwin Foundation$25,000
Men 4 Choice Education$25,000
College Bound Opportunity$25,000
Tides Foundation (MVP)$20,000
Cristo Rey St Martin$15,000
ALS Foundation$15,000
Chicago Foundation for Women$10,250
Planned Parenthood$10,000
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation$10,000
National Immigrant Justice Center$7,500
David Lynch Foundation$5,000
Tennis Opportunity Program$5,000
Francis Parker School$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCOPE: $5k → 17%ALBION COLLEGE ADVANCEMENT: $5k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $11k → 18%ENCORE ILLINOIS: $3k → 7%COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $17k → 8%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $432k → 14%NOBLE NETWORK: $46k → 7%COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 8%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $319k → 14%OPEN THE CIRCLE: $5k → 14%NOBLE NETWORK: $25k → 7%SHRIVER CENTER: $18k → 14%SHRIVER CENTER: $15k → 14%EQUALITY ILLINOIS: $5k → 14%FACING HISTORY: $5k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY: $15k → 14%FACING HISTORY: $5k → 14%EDUCATION PIONEERS: $10k → 14%EDUCATION PIONEERS: $10k → 14%BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $5k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 14%EDUCATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $15k → 14%WBEZ NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: $6k → 14%JUDD GOLDMAN ADAPTIVE SAILING PROGRAM: $3k → 14%JUDD GOLDMAN ADAPTIVE SAILING PROGRAM: $3k → 14%BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS: $25k → 14%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $20k → 14%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $20k → 14%HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: $30k → 14%HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: $30k → 14%MIKVA CHALLENGE: $12k → 14%MIKVA CHALLENGE: $10k → 14%NATIONAL IMMIGRATION SOCIETY: $10k → 14%NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER: $5k → 14%ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $18k → 14%CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $15k → 14%DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%WOMEN EMPLOYED: $11k → 14%ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $10k → 14%WOMEN EMPLOYED: $4k → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 14%HAND IN HAND: $5k → 14%HAND IN HAND: $5k → 14%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $13k → 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

MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
CA
CO
DC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 58 repeat orgs$309k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2023, 33 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
52

Total granted

$1.5M
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+39%

Still filing today

57%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23
EducationHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • DM
    DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +51%
  • MI
    MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT
    4× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +252%
  • RJ
    RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • NS
    Noble Schools
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • BO
    BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
2
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
3
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
4
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
The Partnership for College Completion

The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois…

Education
7
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
8
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
9
The Chicago Network Inc

In furtherance of its charitable and educational goals, the Network's activities consist primarily of providing educational opportunities for its members and the public on issues related to the advancement of women in the workplace. As the…

Community Improvement
10
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
11
Public Interest Law Initiative

PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.

Crime & Legal
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way; the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 123 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
39/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tides Foundation (MVP): $170,000 · OtherTides Foundation (MVP)Roger Baldwin Foundation: $150,000 · OtherRoger Baldwin FoundationCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $123,050 · OtherCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMENCristo Rey St Martin: $94,500 · OtherCristo Rey St MartinNOBLE NETWORK: $71,000 · OtherNOBLE NETWORKCollege Bound Opportunity: $56,000 · OtherSky Arts: $55,000 · OtherNoble Schools: $50,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood: $46,500 · Other+69 more: $501,161 · Other+69 moreSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $63,200 · Crime & LegalSHRIVER C…MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $45,201 · Crime & LegalMONTANA I…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $22,500 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN …READING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP: $20,000 · Crime & LegalREADING B…RESTORE JUSTICE ILLINOIS: $7,000 · Crime & LegalTeach for America Inc: $40,000 · EducationNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $30,000 · EducationMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EducationCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $22,000 · EducationILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $12,000 · EducationFRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education+9 more: $14,750 · EducationHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $60,300 · InternationalFriends of the Children: $30,500 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $6,000 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $5,000 · InternationalDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $16,500 · HealthEATING DISORDERS CAMPAIGN INC: $10,000 · HealthMotorcycle Relief Project: $7,500 · Health+6 more: $6,750 · HealthBLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION: $23,440 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOpen the Circle: $5,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Humanities Festival: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Artists Coalition: $3,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,250 · Arts & CultureRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $27,500 · Civil RightsChicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation: $11,250 · Civil Rights+1 more: $250 · Civil Rights
Other$1,317,211Crime & Legal$157,901Education$145,750International$101,800Health$100,750Arts & Culture$61,440Civil Rights$39,000

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 budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $123,050 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $63,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $60,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $45,201 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Children: $30,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION: $23,440 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $22,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetREADING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN EMPLOYED: $14,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation: $11,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORE JUSTICE ILLINOIS: $7,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT: $5,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUALITY ILLINOIS: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDENEERS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetForest Preserve Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChicago Artists Coalition: $3,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Roberti Community House: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCivic Nation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR EATING DISORDERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEER SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Children ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds READING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP ↗
  • Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN EMPLOYED ↗
  • Who funds Tennis Opportunity Program Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…John D and Catherine …Field Foundation of I…Jewish Federation of …Baskin Family Foundat…The Kellcie FundLloyd a Fry FoundationThe Joyce FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Vivo Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL31.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Baskin Family Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Vivo Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Weinbergnewton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Weinbergnewton 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 123 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $319k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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