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Weiss Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$256k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$376kEducation$351kYouth Development$227kHealth$180kHousing & Shelter$178kArts & Culture$116kFood & Nutrition$110kCrime & Legal$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 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
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Big Brothers Big Sisters$30,000
United Community Center$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Milwaukee Parks Foundation$10,000
Milwaukee Public Museum$10,000
Milwaukee Public Library Foundation$10,000
ACLU Foundation$10,000
St Marcus Schools$7,500
Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity$5,000
Urban Ecology Center$5,000
Milwaukee Women's Center$5,000
Malaika Early Learning Center$5,000
Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition$5,000
Hope House of Milwaukee$5,000
Arts Large$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $341k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%Nia Imani Family Inc: $5k → 17%Nia Imani Family Inc: $5k → 17%Nia Imani Family Inc: $5k → 17%Nia Imani Family Inc: $5k → 17%Sharp Literacy: $5k → 17%Sharp Literacy: $5k → 17%Sharp Literacy: $5k → 17%Sharp Literacy: $5k → 17%Sharp Literacy: $5k → 17%Sharp Literacy: $3k → 17%Milwaukee Women's Center: $5k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $8k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $8k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $8k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $8k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $5k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $5k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $5k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $5k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $5k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $5k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $5k → 17%Secure Futures: $6k → 17%Secure Futures: $3k → 17%Secure Futures: $3k → 17%Secure Futures: $3k → 17%Secure Futures: $3k → 17%Silver Spring Neighborhood Center: $5k → 17%Silver Spring Neighborhood Center: $5k → 17%Silver Spring Neighborhood Center: $5k → 17%United Community Center: $40k → 17%United Community Center: $15k → 17%United Community Center: $15k → 17%United Community Center: $15k → 17%United Community Center: $15k → 17%United Community Center: $10k → 17%United Community Center: $10k → 17%United Community Center: $10k → 17%United Community Center: $10k → 17%Walker's Point Youth Family Center: $5k → 17%Walker's Point Youth Family Center: $3k → 17%Pathfinders: $5k → 17%Pathfinders: $5k → 17%Pathfinders: $5k → 17%Pathfinders: $5k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $5k → 17%Pathfinders: $3k → 17%JobsWork MKE: $3k → 17%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 67 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
21

Total granted

$1.7M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
0%

Still filing today

75%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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 INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +111%
  • PC
    PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +18%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • Pearls for Teen Girls Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • MB
    MKE Bar AssociationMKE Justice Cent
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • MILWAUKEE FILM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -7%

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
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
2
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
3
Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment
4
Milwaukee Center for Children and Youth Inc

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
5
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
6
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.

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7
Milwaukee Community Crossroads Inc

The milwaukee community crossroads (mcc) cultivates a vibrant milwaukee community by helping individuals, families and neighborhoods access basic needs, overcome barriers and connect to opportunities.

Housing & Shelter
8
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
9
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—
10
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
11
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
12
All-in Milwaukee Inc

All-in milwaukee is a college completion program that provides financial aid, advising, program and career support to high potential, limited-income, diverse milwaukee students to complete college, build meaningful careers and transform…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEarly Childhood Care & Educ…Performing Arts Organizatio…Milwaukee Museums & Cultura…Healthcare and Philanthropi…Minority Business Developme…Community Safety Net Servic…Youth Development & Empower…Youth Sports ProgramsPrivate Social ClubsAdvocacy and Economic Justi…Community Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr21%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr15%38%35–55yr21%22%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/74
the rest of the field
12%
710/5,714

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

69 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. 69 of the 99 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
42/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC — $97,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INCHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $45,000 · OtherST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH — $32,500 · OtherMETA HOUSE INC — $30,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · OtherURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $30,000 · OtherCENTRO LEGAL POR DERECHOS HUMANOS INC — $35,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL CENTER INC — $30,000 · OtherSOJOURNER FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Other+50 more — $510,130 · Other+50 moreUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CEN…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE O…MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR…SHARP LITERACY INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INCPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC — $26,000 · Human ServicesPATHFINDERS MILWAUKE…SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $20,500 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDA…NIA IMANI FAMILY INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesNIA IMANI FAMILY INCSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $15,000 · Human Services+6 more — $26,000 · Human Services+6 moreCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $39,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POS…LA CAUSA INC — $36,000 · EducationLA CAUSA IN…MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $35,000 · EducationMALAIKA EAR…DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC — $25,000 · EducationDR HOWARD F…Pearls for Teen Girls Inc — $20,000 · EducationPearls for …ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC — $14,000 · EducationADULT LEARN…+4 more — $20,000 · Education+4 morePENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $102,500 · HealthPENFIELD …IMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC — $32,625 · HealthIMPACT AL…Core El Centro Incorporated — $15,000 · HealthCore El C…HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $32,500 · Housing & ShelterACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTS AT LARGE INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC — $13,000 · Arts & CultureBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK ARTS MKE INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$885,130Human Services$340,500Education$189,000Health$150,125Housing & Shelter$107,500Arts & Culture$90,500Recreation & Sports$90,000

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 budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $140,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $102,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC — $97,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $39,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLA CAUSA INC — $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL POR DERECHOS HUMANOS INC — $35,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSOJOURNER FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $35,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetIMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC — $32,625 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATHEDRAL CENTER INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC — $28,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC — $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION DREAM INC — $23,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNourishMKE Inc — $22,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $20,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDOMINICAN CENTER FOR WOMEN INC — $20,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNIA IMANI FAMILY INC — $20,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFONDY FOOD CENTER INC — $18,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC — $15,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetARTS AT LARGE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN POLICY FORUM INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTEENS GROW GREENS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCore El Centro Incorporated — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMKE URBAN STABLES INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetADULT LEARNING CENTER INC — $14,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC — $13,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMUSLIM WOMEN'S COALITION INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetREDgen Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWALKER'S POINT YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER INC — $8,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds LA CAUSA INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO LEGAL POR DERECHOS HUMANOS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION DREAM INC ↗
  • Who funds NourishMKE Inc ↗
  • Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMINICAN CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
  • Who funds NIA IMANI FAMILY INC ↗
  • Who funds FONDY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS AT LARGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN POLICY FORUM 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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Gardner FoundationEvan & Marion Helfaer…Anon Charitable TrustBaird Foundation IncBrewers Community Fou…The Ros Foundation
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County IncWI103× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · The Ros 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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Weiss Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Weiss Family 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 99 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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