How much did Weiss Family Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of Weiss Family Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

nextlearning

2019

humanity milwaukeeurbanhabitat humanitylearningnextchildren's

2020

neighborhood

2021

youth

2022

centro

2023

foodcentro

2024

mkeurbanyouthneighborhoodchildren's

2025

women'smkeurbanartsyouthneighborhood

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k36 grants · $161k
$10k–50k7 grants · $95k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

Big Brothers Big Sisters$30,000
United Community Center$15,000
Milwaukee Public Museum$10,000
ACLU Foundation$10,000
Milwaukee Parks Foundation$10,000
Milwaukee Public Library Foundation$10,000
PBS Milwaukee$10,000
St Marcus Schools$7,500
Hunger Task Force$5,000
Playworks Milwaukee$5,000
Dominican Center$5,000
Arts Large$5,000
Riverworks Development Corp$5,000
Cathedral Center Inc$5,000
MKE Urban Stables$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 66 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

66 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+30%

Still filing today

53%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

UC
United Community Center
9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +111%
PC
Penfield Children's Center
8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +18%
Next Door Foundation
6× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +16%

Funded once

DH
Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy
one grant, 2021 · $20k
Pearls for Teen Girlsgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +30%
Milwaukee Film
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +20%

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.

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Radio Milwaukee Inc

Through music and stories created for a culturally open- minded community, radio milwaukee, inc. is a catalyst for creating a better, more inclusive, and engaged milwaukee.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment

Milwaukee Christian Center Inc

The milwaukee christian center (mcc) builds strong neighborhoods full of opportunity throughout the city of milwaukee in four core areas: youth development, housing, older adults, and food security.

Housing & Shelter

Employ Milwaukee Inc

Build a strong workforce development system to ensure a skilled and productive workforce.

Employment

United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee

United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee's mission is to strengthen city neighborhoods by combining and enhancing the assets of our partner agencies to improve the quality of life for urban families.

Human Services

Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons inc. is a cross-city network that fosters connection, collaboration, and broad community leadership on behalf of our common waters. the organization promotes stewardship of equitable access to and shared…

Environment

Legacy Redevelopment Corporation

To enhance neighborhood vitality, facilitate a sustainable and economically diverse community, and build wealth through the design and implementation of innovative finance programs in the city of milwaukee.

Housing & Shelter

Revitalize Milwaukee Inc

Revitalize Milwaukee transforms communities by providing free, critical home repairs and comprehensive services to low-income, veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities. see page 2

Housing & Shelter

Journey House Inc

Journey house empowers families on milwaukee's near southside to move out of poverty by offering adult education, youth development, workforce readiness, and family engagement.

Human Services

Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity Inc

Milwaukee habitat for humanity puts god's love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

Housing & Shelter

Milwaukee Center for Children

To end suffering of abused children in milwaukee county through comprehensive advocacy, education, and supportive services that heal trauma, build resilience, nurture the ability to thrive, and create a path toward eradicating the epidemic…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Ecology Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Milwaukee Public Museum Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/56

the rest of the field

11%

604/5,732

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.

05the grantee network

53 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/53

Grantees still filing

38/53

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,124,755Human Services$256,000Education$120,000Health$117,500Recreation & Sports$90,000Environment$79,000Arts & Culture$65,500

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI78.3× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable

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 organisation Weiss 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Nia Imani Family Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391808134 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Nia Imani Family Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Weiss Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Weiss Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Weiss Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?