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Weiss-Ham Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$73kHealth$71kEducation$26kReligion$14kCrime & Legal$150Community Improvement$100Civil Rights$100
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAVINA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$7,500
PORCHLIGHT THEATRE$3,100
KOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATION$1,950
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATION: $3k → 8%STARK COUNTY COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 100 FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%STARK COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY: $1k → 13%NATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%KOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATION: $2k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $5k → 14%KOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATION: $2k → 8%PORCHLIGHT THEATRE: $3k → 14%KOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATION: $2k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $5k → 14%KOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATION: $2k → 8%PORCHLIGHT THEATRE: $500 → 14%KOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATION: $2k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $5k → 14%KOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATION: $1k → 8%PORCHLIGHT THEATRE: $500 → 14%RAVINA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%GLENCOE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 14%RAVINIA: $10k → 8%RAVINA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $500 → 14%RAVINA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $8k → 8%CHICAGO KENT COLLEGE OF LAW: $10k → 14%RAVINA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $7k → 8%CHICAGO KENT COLLEGE OF LAW: $5k → 14%RAVINA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $7k → 8%CHICAGO KENT COLLEGE OF LAW: $5k → 14%CAMPAIGN TO SAVE LIVES: $1k → 8%CHICAGO KENT COLLEGE OF LAW: $5k → 14%CAMPAIGN TO SAVE LIVES: $1k → 8%BLEEDING DISORDERS ALLIANCE ILLINOIS: $1k → 14%CAMPAIGN TO SAVE LIVES: $1k → 8%BLEEDING DISORDERS ALLIANCE ILLINOIS: $1k → 14%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 → 14%BLEEDING DISORDERS ALLIANCE ILLINOIS: $500 → 14%BLEEDING DISORDERS ALLIANCE ILLINOIS: $500 → 14%RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $13k → 14%RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $700 → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 14%AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$169k · 11 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$169k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-11%

Still filing today

64%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureEmploymentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RH
    RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $54k · revenue +14%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +40%
  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    4× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • R
    RAVINIA
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • NB
    NATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -13%
  • SC
    STARK COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
5
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
6
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
7
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
8
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
9
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
10
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health
11
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bleeding Disorders Alliance Illinois; the most unlike its peers is Campaign to Save Lives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $53,500 · OtherRESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATIONKOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATION: $13,800 · OtherKOL HADASH HUMANISTIC CONGREGATIONRAVINIA: $10,000 · OtherRAVINIAPORCHLIGHT THEATRE: $4,350 · OtherCampaign To Save Lives: $3,100 · Other+9 more: $5,000 · Other+9 moreRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $41,500 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATIONWriters Theatre Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWriters Theatre IncIllinois Institute of Technology: $25,000 · EducationIllinois Instit…+1 more: $100 · EducationAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $7,600 · EmploymentBleeding Disorders Alliance Illinois: $3,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 · HealthSTARK COUNTY COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 100 FOUNDATION: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$89,750Arts & Culture$56,500Education$25,100Employment$7,600Health$5,000Food & Nutrition$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $53,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $41,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $7,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCampaign To Save Lives: $3,100 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBleeding Disorders Alliance Illinois: $3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARK COUNTY COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 100 FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
  • Who funds Campaign To Save Lives ↗
  • Who funds Bleeding Disorders Alliance Illinois ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds STARK COUNTY COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 100 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Glencoe Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
AbbVie FoundationIL12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Weiss-Ham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weiss-Ham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Weiss-Ham Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Weiss-Ham 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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