California · Private foundation
Weiss Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of Weiss Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $299k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Weiss Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $66k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $160,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Libi Inc | $131,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Valley Beth Shalom | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Connect Israel | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
About Weiss Charitable Foundation
- How much does Weiss Charitable Foundation give?
- Weiss Charitable Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Weiss Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (92%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Weiss Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Friends of Magen David Adom ($160k), American Friends of Libi Inc ($131k), Valley Beth Shalom ($35k).
- Does Weiss Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Weiss Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Weiss Charitable Foundation based?
- Weiss Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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