· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $597k
- $50k–250k82 grants · $7.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELOIT COLLEGE | $460,287 |
| VIRGINIA ORGANIZING | $350,000 |
| NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY | $350,000 |
| THE COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE | $350,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHANGE | $200,000 |
| NEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $200,000 |
| INDIGENOUS CONSERVATION COUNCIL | $200,000 |
| NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY | $175,000 |
| NATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE | $175,000 |
| NAKASEC | $175,000 |
| DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT | $175,000 |
| CASA INC | $175,000 |
| PROTEUS FUND INC | $160,000 |
| VIRGINIA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE | $150,000 |
| PROGRESSNOW EDUCATION | $125,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $767k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Weissberg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BELOIT COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +6%- NVNEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY6× · 2019–2024 · $809k · revenue +19%
- TCThe Commonwealth Institute for5× · 2020–2024 · $528k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IFIF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $330k · revenue -32%
- TSTHE STUDIO ACTING CONSERVATORY INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
The Justice Policy Institute is dedicated to reducing the use of incarceration and involvement in the justice system by promoting fair and effective policies.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
How this is measured
186 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 186 of the 300 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY ↗
- Who funds The Commonwealth Institute for ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds IF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIJUANA JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC ↗
- Who funds NOLEF TURNS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMUNITY VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS CONSERVATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK IN APPALACHIA ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia Civic Engagement Table ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS NOW EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN STEWARDS ↗
- Who funds TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Weissberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weissberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Arts Focus: 100% of income from government
- Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault: 21% of income from government
- Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
- Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
- Identity Inc: 7% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
- Adventure Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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