The Candace and Richard S Weeks Family Foundation

• The foundation contributes only to organisations it has preselected and does not accept unsolicited requests, so if you have not been invited, do not send it an application.
• Where you do have a link to it, its recorded grants are broad, covering youth organisations and schools, health services, homelessness, hunger and poverty, humanitarian work, libraries and parks, though the filing gives these as examples rather than stated priorities.
• About 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $1,000 and $55,000 and half are $10,000 or less, so a request near $10,000 matches its usual experience, but its largest grant was $550,000, so that band is not a ceiling.
• Repeat grantees received 86% of its grant dollars, so it is largely relationship-led, and its giving has risen each year from $156,000 to $433,500 to $940,000.
• The filing states no geographic focus; its grants have mainly gone to New Jersey, New York and California, which describes where it has given rather than who may apply.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Boys & Girls Club Of Newark NJ · Provides opportunities for youth that empowers them to succeed and excel as contributing members of society.
  $550,0002024 tax year
• Planned Parenthood Of Central And Northern NJ · Quality, affordable, and accessible sexual health care through reproductive health services and education.
  $55,0002024 tax year
• Johns Hopkins University · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $55,0002024 tax year
• UCLA Foundation · Broad stem cell innovation fund.
  $37,5002024 tax year
• International Rescue Committee · Support the mission of the irc to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
  $25,0002024 tax year
• United Way of North Carolina · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Coalition for the Homeless · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Covenant House · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $25,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.