· Private foundation
Weir 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS CLUB | $15,000 |
| HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| MAST GENES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| LLS | $4,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $4,000 |
| RED CROSS | $4,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC NATL CAPITAL AREA | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON COLLEGE 1782 | $3,000 |
| HELPING HANDS HOME | $2,000 |
| VISARTS | $2,000 |
| MIRACLE FARM | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
70 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WHWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +76%
- COCARITAS OF AUSTIN8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +43%
- BSBENEDICTINE SCHOOL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- BHBRADLEY HILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $25k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WAone grant, 2019 · $10k
- FPFirst Presbyterian Churchone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Military Order of the Purple Heart of the Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 90 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 WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CENTER TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BENEDICTINE SCHOOL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds Volunteer Services Council for Austin State School ↗
- Who funds MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds ARCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS TEXAS INC ↗
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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Weir 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Historic Annapolis Inc — 45% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc — 3% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% 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.