FundersPennsylvania

Jacques Weber Foundation Inc

Orangeville, PA · EIN 13-6101161. Reported 69 grants totalling $366,439 to 27 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,400median grant
$366,439granted, 2020-2023
27organizations funded
81%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,194,454assets, 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. Jacques Weber Foundation Inc 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 $2,400. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $45,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
47 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Bloomsburg UniversityBloomsburg, PA$130,439442023
North Carolina Textile FoundationRaleigh, NC$50,000332022
Greg Moyer Defibrillator FundShawneeondelaware, PA$27,400442023
5 Gyres InstituteSanta Monica, CA$15,500442023
Columbia County Conservation DistrictBloomsburg, PA$14,500442023
The Reading LeagueSyracuse, NY$12,400222023
Denison UniversityGranville, OH$12,000442023
American Red CrossBoone, IA$11,900332023
Guilford CollegeGreensboro, NC$8,000442023
Ossining Children's CenterOssining, NY$8,000222022
Loaves and FishesNew Cumberland, PA$7,000442023
Wisconsin Maritime Museum at ManitowocManitowoc, WI$6,000442023
Bloomsburg Public LibraryBloomsburg, PA$5,400442023
Elizabethtown CollegeElizabethtown, PA$5,000112022
Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg, PA$5,000112020
Hand in Hand Family Resource CenterBerwick, PA$5,000332023
Millersville UniversityMillersville, PA$5,000112020
PennenvironmentPhiladelphia, PA$5,000332022
Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, PA$5,000112021
The Prospector TheaterRidgefield, CT$5,000222023
West Chester UniversityWest Chester, PA$5,000112023
Williams CollegeWilliamstown, MA$5,000112021
Sweet P BakeryNorwalk, CT$4,400222023
Surf Rider FoundationSan Clemente, CA$4,000222021
Phoenix Martial Arts SocietyEast Stroudsburg, PA$3,000332022
Historic Orangeville Train Station AssociationOrangeville, PA$1,000112022
Homes With HopeWestport, CT$500112020

19 of 27 (70%) 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 81%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
21 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202016$81,000$2,000
202118$98,939$3,000
202220$93,500$2,000
202315$93,000$3,000

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 61% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Pennsylvania
$224K
North Carolina
$58K
New York
$20K
California
$20K
Ohio
$12K
Iowa
$12K
Connecticut
$10K
Wisconsin
$6K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,400. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  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 Jacques Weber Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1483 State Rt 487, Orangeville, PA, 17859. 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 13-6101161 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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