Weinberger Family Foundation Inc.

Weinberger Family Foundation Inc. (EIN 65-0245748, Roslyn Heights, NY) is a tiny, single-family, single-decision-maker private foundation. IRS filings list Lawrence Weinberger as unpaid President, devoting roughly one hour per year to the role per Form 990-PF disclosures — there is no program staff, no grants department, and no public application infrastructure. Our data bundle shows no accessible grants page, no LOI portal, and no stated funding cycle; the DB record's 'website' field (weinberger.org) actually resolves to an unrelated Harvard academic's personal site, confirming the foundation has no real public web presence worth checking. Third-party grant databases (Instrumentl, Grantable) independently confirm '0 live grant opportunities' listed.

The grantee list is the real signal. Across 39 tracked grants totaling $1,062,100, the foundation repeatedly funds the same roughly 15-18 organizations over multiple years — American Israel Education Foundation (3 grants, $290,000), Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach (multiple grants totaling $240,000 combined), Jewish Family Services (3 grants, $153,600), and Friends of United Hatzalah (3 grants, $131,000) alone account for over 75% of tracked dollars. This is a relationship-driven, not competitive, funder: nearly every purpose code in the data is 'GENERAL' operating support, and the recipient pool skews heavily toward Jewish communal life, Israel advocacy/education, and a handful of Long Island, South Florida, and Santa Fe community and arts organizations with an apparent personal connection to the Weinberger family.

For a first-time applicant with no existing tie to this family or its giving circle, the realistic path in is indirect: a warm introduction through a Jewish federation, Hillel chapter, synagogue network, or a shared board/community connection in the New York-Florida corridor is far more likely to work than a cold unsolicited proposal. Organizations without any Jewish-communal, Israel-support, or Long Island/Palm Beach/Santa Fe geographic nexus have essentially no representation in nine years of grant data reviewed.

Annual giving has been remarkably stable for over a decade: $307,100 (2012), $301,044 (2013), $324,029 (2019), $356,385 (2021, boosted by a $3.7M one-time asset sale that year), $368,075 (2022), $294,951 (2023), and $308,000 in the most recent filing (FY2025 per ProPublica, processed April 2026). Total assets have held in the $4-7.2M range, sitting at $6,998,638 as of the latest filing — this is a foundation that pays out close to its full investment income each year (99.1% of expenses went to charitable disbursements in the latest filing) rather than growing its corpus.

Grant size: the foundation's own typical-grant-size metadata shows a median of $15,000, average of $27,077, and range of $1,000-$95,000; the tracked grantee list (39 grants, $1,062,100 total) confirms an average of $27,233. But the ceiling has risen recently — the FY2024 filing shows a single grant of $118,000 to Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach and $110,000 to American Israel Education Foundation, both above the historical $95,000 max, suggesting the foundation is willing to write larger checks to its most established relationships.

Geographically, tracked grants span nine states: NY leads with 13 of 39 grants, followed by DC (6), FL (4), and CA, CO, MA, PA (3 each), with MD and NM at 2 each. But dollar concentration has shifted — the most recent filing year shows DC (34%) and FL (27%) as the largest dollar shares, driven by the AIPAC-affiliated American Israel Education Foundation (DC) and Hillel of Broward/Palm Beach (FL) becoming the top two recipients.

By purpose, virtually 100% of tracked grants are coded 'GENERAL' — this foundation does not appear to fund restricted programs, capital campaigns, or research grants distinctly; it writes general operating support checks to organizations it already trusts.

Weinberger Family Foundation Inc. sits at the extreme small end of this comparison set — even against two unrelated, similarly-named 'Weinberger' foundations, it is the largest by assets but still gives away roughly 0.3% of what the (unrelated) Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation distributes annually. Unlike the Weinberg Foundation, which has a staffed grants program, published priorities, and a formal LOI-to-invitation pipeline, none of the three small Weinberger-named foundations — including this one — maintain any public application process; all appear to fund through personal and communal relationships rather than competitive review.

The most recent available filing (FY2025, processed by the IRS around April 10, 2026 per ProPublica/Instrumentl data) shows revenue of $232,038 (almost entirely dividends and capital gains, with zero external contributions received — this foundation is entirely endowment-funded), expenses of $310,892, and charitable disbursements of $308,000, or 99.1% of total expenses. Net assets stood at $6,998,638, within the foundation's normal multi-year range.

The preceding filing year (2024 activity) shows a notable concentration: of about $296,500 distributed across just 7 recorded grants, two organizations — Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach ($118,000) and American Israel Education Foundation ($110,000) — absorbed roughly 77% of all giving. That is a meaningfully more concentrated pattern than the trailing multi-year average (39 grants across ~18 organizations, $27,233 average), and both amounts exceed the foundation's own stated typical-grant maximum of $95,000, suggesting an intentional step-up for its most established relationships rather than a one-off.

No leadership changes, new program announcements, press coverage, or public statements were found for 2025-2026. Lawrence Weinberger continues as unpaid President (Ruth Weinberger, his apparent predecessor, held the role through 2017 per ProPublica's officer history). No social media presence, press office, or communications function exists for this foundation — all available signal comes from IRS Form 990-PF data aggregated by third-party nonprofit databases (Instrumentl, ProPublica, Grantable, CauseIQ, Candid), not from the foundation itself.

This foundation has no discoverable public application process — no portal, no LOI form, no stated deadline or funding cycle, and DB enrichment explicitly recorded application_instructions as none. Third-party grant databases (Instrumentl, Grantable) independently confirm zero live grant opportunities listed. Treat any 'apply now' guidance you see attributed to a 'Weinberger Family Foundation' with skepticism unless it explicitly names EIN 65-0245748 and the Roslyn Heights, NY address — at least two unrelated foundations share this name.

Given a single unpaid decision-maker (Lawrence Weinberger, reportedly ~1 hour/year on foundation business per IRS filing) and a grantee list that repeats the same 15-20 organizations year over year, the realistic strategy is relationship-first, not proposal-first. Nine years of grant data show an overwhelming skew toward Jewish communal and Israel-support organizations (Hillel chapters, Jewish Family Services, United Hatzalah, UJA-Federation, American Israel Education Foundation, synagogues) plus a small cluster of Long Island, South Florida (Palm Beach/Broward), and Santa Fe community/arts organizations — likely tracking the family's personal geography and affinities. If your organization does not fall into one of these categories or geographies, a cold approach is unlikely to succeed regardless of proposal quality.

If you do have a plausible connection (a shared synagogue, Jewish federation, Hillel network, or a Long Island/Palm Beach/Santa Fe community tie), keep the ask modest and unrestricted: the median tracked grant is $15,000 and the average is about $27,000-$34,000; amounts above $95,000-$118,000 have gone only to the two longest-tenured, highest-trust relationships (American Israel Education Foundation, Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach). Frame the request as general operating support — virtually every tracked grant purpose is coded 'GENERAL,' with no evidence of restricted program or capital-campaign funding. Because the foundation makes essentially no external contributions of its own (100% of revenue is investment income), it is not actively fundraising or building new partnerships — it is maintaining a small, stable circle of longtime beneficiaries, so patience and a genuine introduction matter more than a polished cold pitch.