· Private foundation
Wender Weis Foundation for Children
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $39k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO 49ers Foundation | $58,441 |
| San Francisco Ballet | $5,318 |
| healthy planet project | $5,150 |
| California Academy of Sciences | $5,106 |
| dreams33 foundation | $5,000 |
| Warriors CommUNITY Foundation | $4,000 |
| There With Care | $3,500 |
| Raphael House of San Francisco | $2,500 |
| Children of Shelters | $1,500 |
| Children's Health Council | $1,250 |
| patrick Willis Community Fund | $1,204 |
| Play Marin | $1,050 |
| Family House | $1,000 |
| Lucile Packard Children's Hospital | $1,000 |
| Junior League of SF | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $287k · revenue +18%
- GCGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND5× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +35%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- BBBARRY BONDS FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +71% · 33% of their budget
- 4A49ERS ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $5k
- TJTHE JOHN LYNCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To provide athletic opportunities to the youth of san francisco bay area by providing low cost opportunities to learn, play and participate in soccer by obtaining training in clinics, play and participate in leagues and tournaments.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is DREAMS33 Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
54 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. 54 of the 82 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds DO IT FOR THE LOVE ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREAMS33 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARRY BONDS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY MARIN ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN LYNCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Shelters ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds SAFE & SOUND ↗
- Who funds Generation Alive ↗
- Who funds THE SHARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GLIMMER ↗
- Who funds Beyond Differences ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture · Koret Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Atkinson Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Wender Weis Foundation for Children 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.
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.