Illinois · Private foundation
Weingerspector Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $210k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $156,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Weingerspector Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 23 | $210k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $178k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $163k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $82k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $58k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $65k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $64k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $455,981 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $320,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Am Shalom | $25,700 | 9 | n/a |
| National Parkinson Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 9 | n/a |
| American Jewish Committee | $9,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Council for Jewish Elderly | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Child and Family Services | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Nate Wasserman Camp Fund | $9,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Paws Inc | $5,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $4,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $455,981 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $320,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Am Shalom | $25,700 | 9 | n/a |
| National Parkinson Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 9 | n/a |
| American Jewish Committee | $9,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Council for Jewish Elderly | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Child and Family Services | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Nate Wasserman Camp Fund | $9,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Paws Inc | $5,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $4,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $1,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Leukemia Research Foundation | $1,122 | 5 | 0% |
| Warfighter Made | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Association of Israel's Decorative Arts | $750 | 3 | 0% |
| Tri-Con Child Care Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Weingerspector Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Weingerspector Foundation
- How much does Weingerspector Foundation give?
- Weingerspector Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $210,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Weingerspector Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Philanthropy (34%), Health (4%).
- Who are Weingerspector Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ($456k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($320k), Am Shalom ($26k).
- Does Weingerspector Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Weingerspector Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Weingerspector Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Weingerspector Foundation based?
- Weingerspector Foundation is based in IL.
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