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Weiser Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $384k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $283k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $113,600 |
| WALKER ART CENTER INC | $109,679 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $60,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED | $47,500 |
| ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC | $40,000 |
| GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PUBLIC THEATER | $28,150 |
| ASOLO REERTORY THEATRE | $26,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF LOS ANGELES | $20,000 |
| NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE | $20,000 |
| JUNGLE THEATER | $20,000 |
| ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY INC | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS | $18,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k 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
- WAWALKER ART CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +87%
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2025 · $366k · revenue +45%- GTGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- STSIGNATURE THEATERone grant, 2019 · $20k
- SHSHOLOM HOME WEST INCone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +21%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
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.
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Morton Cure Paralysis 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 70 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 WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JUNGLE THEATER ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds Ten Thousand Things Theater ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds SHOLOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Breck School ↗
- Who funds Morton Cure Paralysis Fund ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds LADY FREETHINKER ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Phileona Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Target Foundation · Roger and Myra Greenberg Family Foundation · Stanley M & Luella G Goldberg Family Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt 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 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.
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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