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Weiner Family Foundation

Sarasota, FL · EIN 25-1724052. Reported 63 grants totalling $300,883 to 33 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$725median grant
$300,883granted, 2021-2025
33recipients, as named on its returns
38%of grantees funded again the next year
$582assets, 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. Weiner Family 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 $725. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $5,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
34 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
11 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 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
Jewish Federation of Sarasota-ManateeSarasota, FL$168,000842024
Tickets for KidsPittsburgh, PA$37,500222025
Embracing Our DifferencesSarasota, FL$20,000332024
All Faiths Food BankSarasota, FL$18,075332023
Adventure for AllSarasota, FL$10,230332023
Louis & Gloria Flanzer TrustNew York, NY$8,000442024
Gulf Coast Community FoundationVenice, FL$5,000112021
Oregon Health and Science UniversityPortland, OR$5,000112022
Conservation FundArlington, VA$3,113222023
Architecture SarasotaSarasota, FL$2,500112024
Central Park ConservancyNew York, NY$2,500112023
The Bay Park ConservancySarasota, FL$2,500112024
Giving Challenge DonationsSarasota, FL$2,323222024
All Star Children FoundationSarasota, FL$1,500222023
John Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$1,500112023
Lee & Bob Peterson FoundationSarasota, FL$1,446222023
Community Day SchoolSarasota, FL$1,250332023
Sarah Heinz HousePittsburgh, PA$1,250222022
Moffit FoundationTampa, FL$1,100222024
Jh All Childrens FoundationSt Petersburg, FL$1,000222022
Sky's the Limit FundOakland, CA$1,000112021
Surgicorps InternationalPittsburgh, PA$1,000332023
Urban Impact FoundationPittsburgh, PA$800332023
Humane Society for Cityside InitiativeSarasota, FL$500112022
Inclusion RevolutionSarasota, FL$500112021
Jgive-Friends of Asor Fund USA IncJerusalem$500112023
Seattle ZooSeattle, WA$500112021
Second Heart HomesSarasota, FL$500112021
Society of St Vincent De Paul FoundationBaton Rouge, LA$500112023
Steel City SquashPittsburgh, PA$500112021
Angel Tree IncKnoxville, TN$346112023
Tree PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$250112021
The Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyRye Brook, NY$200112023

16 of 33 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 38%, across 4 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 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
11 grants
Human Services
7 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Environment
3 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Education
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202119$91,705$500
202217$90,883$750
202318$52,480$610
20248$63,315$4,500
20251$2,500$2,500

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

79% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Florida
$236K
Pennsylvania
$41K
New York
$11K
Oregon
$5K
Virginia
$3K
Maryland
$2K
California
$1K
Louisiana
$500

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Sarasota Co11 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $725. 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 Florida.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Weiner Family 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: 330 S Pineapple Ave 207, Sarasota, FL, 34236. 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 25-1724052 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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