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Weseley Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
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 2025.

Civil Rights$211kReligion$67kInternational$36kEducation$33kArts & Culture$33kEnvironment$7kHealth$3kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
$180
Median grant
5
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION$25,000
NEW YORK GILBERT & SULLIVAN PLAYERS INC$19,226
BEIT CHAVERIM SYNAGOGUE OF WESTPORT NORWALK INC$8,934
TEMPLE ISRAEL WESTPORT INC$742
CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC$607
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$600
NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC$500
FUND FOR LACHAT TOWN FARM INC$360
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED$200
EARTHJUSTICE$180
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$180
GREENPEACE FUND INC$150
NATURE CONSERVANCY$150
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$150
ASPETUCK LAND TRUST INC$150
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $2k → 9%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

WI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$388k · 27 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
19

Total granted

$388k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+29%

Still filing today

85%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +78%
  • NY
    NEW YORK GILBERT & SULLIVAN PLAYERS INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +0%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • BB
    BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -23%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $635 · revenue +118%
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -25%
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.

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Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
4
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
7
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
10
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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11
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
12
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Mexic-Arte Museum. 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

47 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. 47 of the 55 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
30/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $184,943 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $25,600 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATIONBEIT CHAVERIM SYNAGOGUE OF WESTPORT NORWALK INC: $65,668 · OtherBEIT CHAVERIM SYNAGOGUE OF WES…THE BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY OF CONNECTICUT INCORPORATED: $21,185 · OtherTHE BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY…THE JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF CONNECTICUT: $11,370 · OtherTHE JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF CONN…+22 more: $7,815 · Other+22 moreThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $33,800 · InternationalThe Americ…HIAS INC: $1,360 · International+5 more: $1,143 · InternationalNEW YORK GILBERT & SULLIVAN PLAYERS INC: $26,282 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK …NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $4,363 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK …METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,410 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $1,685 · Arts & CultureENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,050 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $900 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $850 · EnvironmentASPETUCK LAND TRUST: $800 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC: $750 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $300 · EnvironmentSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,060 · HealthNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC: $635 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $360 · HealthBUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $1,988 · Human Services
Civil Rights$210,543Other$106,038International$36,303Arts & Culture$33,740Environment$5,650Health$2,055Human Services$1,988

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 budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $184,943 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $33,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK GILBERT & SULLIVAN PLAYERS INC: $26,282 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $25,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF CONNECTICUT: $11,370 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $4,363 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $1,988 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,410 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $1,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPINK AID INC: $1,257 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,060 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC: $1,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASPETUCK LAND TRUST: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC: $635 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $483 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $191 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $188 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFive Talents USA: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAVNE FUND co ODONOGHUE & LAMB CPAS PLLC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Good Fund: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION STAMFORD NEW CANAAN DARIEN INC: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPY OF UPPER FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM: $10 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.

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 Communal FundFjcThe Carl Marks Founda…Synchrony FoundationThe Stewart & Constan…Fairfield County's Co…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bessemer Giving F…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Jewish Communal FundNY22.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Carl Marks Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Weseley Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weseley Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Weseley Family Charitable 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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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