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William M Weaver Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$81,700
Largest grant, FY2025
$232,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations William M Weaver Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$1.0M40%
FY20249$1.4M11%
FY20236$1.0M33%
FY20224$268k75%
FY20216$397k17%
FY20207$560k14%
FY20197$853k57%
FY20186$624k17%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MEnvironment$576kReligion$476kHealth$459kPhilanthropy$399kArts & Culture$392kHuman Services$385kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Wilton Foundation$398,552257%
Dawson Medical Foundation$219,7413n/a
Lamesa Boys & Girls Club Inc$180,264324%
Lamesa Community Players Incorporated$120,1814n/a
Dawson County Senior Citizens Center Inc$117,045220%
Northridge Retirement Center Inc$29,90618%

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to William M Weaver 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.

About William M Weaver Foundation

How much does William M Weaver Foundation give?
William M Weaver Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,039,967 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does William M Weaver Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (20%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%), Environment (8%).
Who are William M Weaver Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Wilton Foundation ($399k), Dawson Medical Foundation ($220k), Lamesa Boys & Girls Club Inc ($180k).
Does William M Weaver Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William M Weaver Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is William M Weaver Foundation based?
William M Weaver Foundation is based in TX.

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 28 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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