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Weber Charitable Foundation

Marshfield, WI · EIN 87-4057067. Reported 64 grants totalling $2,589,526 to 33 recipients across tax years 2022-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,500median grant
$2,589,526granted, 2022-2025
33recipients, as named on its returns
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$13.7Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Weber Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $878,576. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
7 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
31 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 and Up
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Columbus Catholic SchoolsMarshfield, WI$2,116,576332025
Marshfield Area Community FoundationMarshfield, WI$138,000442025
Spencer Youth Recreations IncSpencer, WI$90,000332025
Neillsville Improvement CorporationNeillsville, WI$50,000222024
Friends of the Mead Wildlife AreaMilladore, WI$28,000112024
Memory Lane FarmMarshfield, WI$27,000332025
Marshfield Area United WayMarshfield, WI$21,000442025
Boys & Girls Club of Portage CountyStevens Point, WI$20,000112025
School District of MarshfieldMarshfield, WI$14,750222023
Altruist Relief KitchenHomer, AK$10,000112024
Marshfield Public Library FoundationMarshfield, WI$9,000442025
St Vincent De PaulMarshfield, WI$7,000222023
N Central Community Action ProgramMarshfield, WI$6,000222024
Wisconsin Public Radio Association IncMadison, WI$6,000332024
Huey's HideawayMedford, WI$5,000112025
International Rescue CommitteeAlbert Lea, MN$5,000112024
Marshfield Area Habitat for HumanityMarshfield, WI$5,000112022
The Hannah Center IncMarshfield, WI$5,000112022
Mead Wildlife AreaMilladore, WI$4,500112022
Lucille Tack Center for the ArtsSpencer, WI$3,500442025
Wisconsin Foundation for School MusicWaunakee, WI$3,500442025
Main Street MarshfieldMarshfield, WI$2,000222025
Sleep in Heavenly PeaceTwin Falls, ID$2,000112022
Wisconsin Public TelevisionMadison, WI$2,000112025
Wood County Health DepartmentWisconsin Rapids, WI$2,000222024
Friends of Wisconsin Public Television IncMadison, WI$1,500222024
Feed My Starving ChildrenCoon Rapids, MN$1,000112024
House of DoveMarshfield, WI$1,000112022
Owen Withee School DistrictOwen, WI$1,000112023
Personal Development Center IncMarshfield, WI$1,000112022
Center for National IndependenceTucson, AZ$750222023
National Resources Defense CouncilNew York, NY$250112022
Marshfield Clinic Health SystemMarshfield, WI$200112022

17 of 33 (52%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 33 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Human Services
3 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202218$50,450$1,500
202316$601,500$3,000
202418$1,052,576$3,500
202512$885,000$4,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

99% of its giving went to organizations in Wisconsin. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Wisconsin
$2.6M
Alaska
$10K
Minnesota
$6K
Idaho
$2K
Arizona
$750
New York
$250

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Umhoefer Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsGreen Bay Packers Foundation6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsSentry Insurance Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Wisconsin.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Weber Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 1301 N Wood Ave, Marshfield, WI, 54449. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 87-4057067 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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