Virginia · Private foundation
Weissberg 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.
- $9.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 143
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $460,287
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 75
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $223M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Weissberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 100 | $9.1M | 77% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $2.6M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $2.0M | 61% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.7M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $1.1M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 75 | $1.4M | 75% |
| FY2017 | 42 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beloit College | $3,214,750 | 7 | 1% |
| New Virginia Majority | $808,500 | 6 | 8% |
| The Commonwealth Institute for | $528,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Virginia Organizing Inc | $525,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Casa Inc | $363,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc | $362,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Appalachian Community Fund | $360,000 | 1 | 24% |
| If Foundation | $330,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Marijuana Justice | $300,500 | 3 | 42% |
| Defending Rights and Dissent Inc | $292,700 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 187 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 102 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Weissberg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 159 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · If Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · The Community Foundation Inc · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Humanities Council of Washington DC · NEO Philanthropy Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee
How this is measured
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About Weissberg Foundation
- How much does Weissberg Foundation give?
- Weissberg Foundation reported 143 grants totaling $9,621,487 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 75 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Weissberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (21%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Weissberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Beloit College ($3.2M), New Virginia Majority ($809k), The Commonwealth Institute for ($528k).
- Does Weissberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Weissberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Weissberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
- Where is Weissberg Foundation based?
- Weissberg Foundation is based in VA.
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