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Weiser Charitable Foundation

TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS, PARTICULARLY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN, AS WELL AS FURTHERING OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY MAKING GRANTS FOR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Health$3.0MArts & Culture$1.6MScience & Tech$1.3MEducation$842kFood & Nutrition$620kPhilanthropy$330kRecreation & Sports$300kInternational$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $867k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - LEARNING SCIENCE CENTER$1,275,000
FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH EDUCATION$260,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - STUDENT INT POLICY ENG$183,300
CLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUB$150,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - ACADEMIC LEADERS PROGRAM$150,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - RESTORE FUNCTION FUND$100,000
CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER$90,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - FACULTY RECRUITMENT & PROG DEV$83,333
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - WEISER MAP SUPPORT$60,000
JDRF INTERNATIONAL$50,000
NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$35,000
OSCOD$30,000
ERASE PTSD NOW$30,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$30,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KIERSTEN'S RIDE: $5k → 9%METRO HEALTH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $325k → 11%CHILDREN'S LITERACY NETWORK: $10k → 14%OUR HOUSE: $15k → 14%OUR HOUSE: $15k → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 12 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
28

Total granted

$4.4M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+14%

Still filing today

83%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FA
    FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $620k · revenue +68%
  • CK
    CLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUB
    2× · 2023–2024 · $275k · revenue +35%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • GL
    Great Lakes Center for the Arts
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -25%
  • MF
    METROPOLITAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $325k · revenue -10%
  • TV
    THE VANDENBERG COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +62%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
2
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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3
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
4
Alumni Association of the University of Michigan

The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…

Education
5
Northern Michigan Hematology and Oncology

Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.

Health
6
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
7
Michigan Chamber Foundation

1) to plan and conduct nonpartisan public education programs regarding free enterprise, productivity and basic economic issues affecting the state of michigan.2) to establish and operate a leadership institute designed to provide promising…

Arts & Culture
8
Michigan Colleges Alliance

Michigan Colleges Alliance is a collective of excellent independent colleges and universities located throughout Michigan. MCA helps students pursue their educational goals by organizing on campus tours, funding scholarships and connecting…

Education
9
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
12
The Cardiac Institute

Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dynami Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%6%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr13%45%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
13%
7,297/56,026

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 57 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
24/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $2,178,333 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - LEARNING SCIENCE CENTER — $1,275,000 · OtherTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - LEARNING SCIENCE CEN…CLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUB — $275,000 · OtherCLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUBTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - STUDENT INT POLICY ENG — $183,300 · Other+26 more — $836,833 · Other+26 moreGreat Lakes Center for the Arts — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureGreat Lakes Center fo…Ann Arbor Art Association — $515,000 · Arts & CultureAnn Arbor Art Associa…+2 more — $52,550 · Arts & CultureMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $300,000 · HealthMCLAREN N…CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER — $180,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $150,000 · HealthBREAKTHRO…ERASE PTSD NOW INC — $30,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Health+5 more — $50,000 · Health+5 moreFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC — $620,000 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN FOUNDATION — $325,000 · Human ServicesSOS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $30,000 · Human ServicesOUR HOUSE — $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $15,000 · Human Services+3 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC — $100,000 · EducationNORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $70,000 · EducationHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT — $25,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE VANDENBERG COALITION INC — $100,000 · International
Other$4,748,466Arts & Culture$1,567,550Health$740,000Food & Nutrition$620,000Human Services$425,000Education$205,000International$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGreat Lakes Center for the Arts — $1,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC — $620,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAnn Arbor Art Association — $515,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetMETROPOLITAN FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCLIFF KEEN WRESTLING CLUB — $275,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER — $180,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VANDENBERG COALITION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBAY HARBOR FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetERASE PTSD NOW INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE — $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $27,550 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHELSEA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMILES JEFFREY ROBERTS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDRENS LITERACY NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGIRLS GROUP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDYNAMI FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPeace Neighborhood Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMMAUS HEALTH PARTNERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUTURES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIERSTENS RIDE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMOSAIC COUNSELING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Washten…Ann Arbor Area Commun…Dte Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …James a and Faith Kni…The Martin Family Fou…Harry a and Margaret …Frey FoundationThe Buhr FoundationSpeckhard-Knight Char…United Way for Southe…Jenkins Foundation
United Way of Washtenaw CountyMI28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Washtenaw County · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Jenkins Foundation

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 Weiser Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Weiser Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Weiser Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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