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Weingartz Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Weingartz Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Catholic Foundation Of Michigan, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Weingartz Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 41 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k71 grants · $355k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $435k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| International Samiaritain | $1,200,000 |
| Food for the Poor | $750,000 |
| Catholic Charities of SE Michigan | $200,000 |
| Gleaners | $110,000 |
| Covenant House of Michigan | $75,000 |
| FOCUS | $50,000 |
| Food Gatherers | $35,000 |
| St Vincent de Paul | $30,000 |
| Society of the Propagation of Faith | $25,000 |
| Feeding America West Michigan | $25,000 |
| Friends of the Master | $25,000 |
| MCREST | $20,000 |
| Heifer International | $10,000 |
| Guest House | $10,000 |
| Miles Christi | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 67 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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
- ISINTERNATIONAL SAMARITAN4× · 2020–2023 · $4.3M · revenue +118% · 48% of their budget
- FGFOOD GATHERERS3× · 2021–2023 · $105k · revenue +4%
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $450k
- SLST LOUIS CENTERone grant, 2021 · $150k
- EAEast African Children's Fundgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +352%
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.
The organization offers medical services and resources to women who are or might be pregnant at no cost.
The center provides free pregnancy tests, limited o.b. ultrasounds, non- professional peer counseling, free literature & brochures on topics related to pregnancy and spiritual issues, emergency support for clients in the form of maternity…
Pregnancy center dedicated to protecting the sanctity of human life.
Our mission at hope life center is to reach the community with the gospel of jesus christ by meeting physical, emotional and spiritual needs of women, men and their unborn children.
Acknowledging that every human life begins at conception and is worthy of protection, Life Choices Clinic offers compassion, hope, and help to anyone considering abortion by presenting them with realistic alternatives and Christ-centered…
Alpha women's center operates mobile medical clinics serving women with pregnancy needs by providing medical, material and emotional support.
To provide support to unplanned pregnancies.
Life affirming ministry providing no cost, confidential pregnancy testing; sti testing; ultrasound confirmation of pregnancy; misicarriage ministry; parenting programs; resource referrals; and material aid for clients in need of baby…
Free pregnancy medical clinic with the purpose of helping families through education, medical services, peer counseling, and material support to be fully educated and equipped to carry to term and/or parent if they so choose.
New life pregnancy center is a christ-centered ministry committed to upholding the sanctity of human life by demonstrating the love of christ to those facing unplanned pregnancies through the provision of spiritual, physical, and emotional…
The organization provides support to women in crisis pregnancy which includes guidance services, counseling, pregnancy test and referrals to other agencies
Early pregnancy confirmation and limited ob services, abortion information, adoption (c) prenatal and postnatal supplies (d) postnatal abortion assistance (e) young mothers mentoring.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakeshore Pregnancy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is East African Children's Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 89 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 INTERNATIONAL SAMARITAN ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER WAY PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MASTER INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds East African Children's Fund ↗
- Who funds BUGUMIRO FOUNDATION UGANDA ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
- Who funds LIFE RESOURCES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEPLAN ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Alpha Family Services of Greenville ↗
- Who funds OUR LADYS INN ↗
- Who funds ALPHA FAMILY CENTER OF NEWAYGO ↗
- Who funds Alpha Grand Rapids ↗
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: Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · Dayenu Foundation Trust · Timothy and Sheila Patton Family Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Peter J & Constance M Cracchiolo Fndn · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Weingartz 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.
- Food for the Poor 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.
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