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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.

$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$339kHealth$143kArts & Culture$81kPhilanthropy$64kEducation$45kYouth Development$37kHousing & Shelter$25kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $39k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$1,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$36k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital$1,000
Family House$1,000
Junior League of SF$500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%FAMILY BUILDERS BY ADOPTION: $515 → 10%MY NEW RED SHOES: $1k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO 49ers Foundation: $58k → 8%MY NEW RED SHOES: $500 → 7%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $45k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $45k → 8%49ERS FOUNDATION: $41k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $39k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $29k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%dreams33 foundation: $5k → 7%DREAMS 33 FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%DREAMS 33 FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%DREAMS 33 FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%DREAMS 33 FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $525 → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $2k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $4k → 10%Raphael House of San Francisco: $3k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
IN
CA
VA
DC
TX
FL
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.
$726k · 37 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
37

Total granted

$726k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+41%

Still filing today

65%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $287k · revenue +18%
  • GC
    GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND
    5× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +35%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • BB
    BARRY BONDS FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +71% · 33% of their budget
  • 4A
    49ERS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • TJ
    THE JOHN LYNCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +21%
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
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
2
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
3
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
4
The San Francisco School

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.

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5
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

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.

Health
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
Community Youth Center of San Francisco

Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…

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8
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

—
9
San Francisco Friends School

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…

Education
10
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
11
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
12
City Fields Foundation
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 82 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/54
Grantees still filing
38/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $286,830 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATIONRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INCDREAMS33 FOUNDATION: $14,035 · Human Services+5 more: $9,376 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY: $35,062 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACAD…UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $34,300 · OtherUCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITA…UCSF MEDICAL CENTER: $22,000 · OtherUCSF MEDICAL CENTERTHERE WITH CARE (BAY AREA CHAPTER): $19,450 · OtherTHERE WITH CARE (BAY AREA CHAPT…LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $18,358 · OtherLUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPI…BARRY BONDS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $13,500 · OtherBARRY BONDS FAMILY FOUNDATIONNO KID GO HUNGRY: $13,500 · OtherNO KID GO HUNGRYIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+37 more: $55,130 · Other+37 moreSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $42,531 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISC…DO IT FOR THE LOVE: $31,228 · Arts & CultureDO IT FOR TH…CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,508 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA A…THE EXPLORATORIUM: $4,324 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,371 · Arts & CultureGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $47,075 · PhilanthropyTEAM IMPACT INC: $9,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $32,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INC: $15,647 · HealthEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $2,100 · Health+6 more: $4,225 · HealthGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,500 · Recreation & SportsPLAY MARIN: $5,835 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBay Area Womens Sports Initiative: $3,100 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JOHN LYNCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,175 · Youth DevelopmentGeneration Alive: $3,950 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SHARKS FOUNDATION: $3,450 · Youth Development+2 more: $1,115 · Youth Development
Human Services$329,741Other$221,300Arts & Culture$90,962Philanthropy$58,075Health$53,972Recreation & Sports$29,435Youth Development$20,190

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $286,830 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $47,075 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $42,531 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY: $35,062 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDO IT FOR THE LOVE: $31,228 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $19,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $15,647 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDREAMS33 FOUNDATION: $14,035 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBARRY BONDS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 1y, 33% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,508 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPLAY MARIN: $5,835 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOHN LYNCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,175 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5,106 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Shelters: $5,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $4,324 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE & SOUND: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeneration Alive: $3,950 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SHARKS FOUNDATION: $3,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Womens Sports Initiative: $3,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUTE: $2,950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT GLIMMER: $2,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeyond Differences: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $1,762 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRCA FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMBOLDEN CHANGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,311 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIUCCI FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA TAX FOUNDATION: $650 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $609 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE BUS PROJECT: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLUMPJACK FOUNDATION: $525 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Builders by Adoption: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION AMBASSADORS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVE TAHOE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIM Youth Mental Health: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 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 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 ↗

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.

Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…Taube Foundation for …Koret FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…The San Francisco Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Lisa & Douglas Goldma…Atkinson FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA27.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wender Weis Foundation for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wender Weis Foundation for Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 82 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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