Please note that the Weissberg Foundation completed a formal strategic planning process in the summer of 2017, which resulted in a five-year strategic framework that will guide our work through 2022. Below is an abridged catalogue of our grantee partners from 2015-2017 and not fully reflective of our current program areas. At this time, the Foundation accepts proposals by invitation only and does not accept unsolicited requests for funding.

Chairman’s Fund

• Beloit College
• City Kids Wilderness Project
• Foundation for the National Archives
• New York University

Economic Empowerment for Women and Girls (International & Domestic)

• The Aspen Institute Alliance for Artisan Enterprise
• Criterion Institute
• Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation
• Oxfam America
• Root Capital
• Washington Area Women’s Foundation
• Women Effect

Media and Messaging

• BRITDOC
• Chicken & Egg Pictures
• Mother Jones
• The Return
• Stone Soup Films
• 3.5 Minutes, Ten Bullets

Programs for the Incarcerated Population

• Bard Prison Initiative
• Brooklyn Community Foundation Restorative Justice Project
• Goucher Prison Education Partnership
• JustLeadershipUSA
• The Osborne Association
• Wesleyan Center for Prison Education

Reframing <Washington> Empowerment Fund

• Critical Exposure
• Empower DC
• Many Languages One Voice
• Young Women’s Project

Theater in DC / Diversity in Theater Fund

• Adventure Theatre MTC
• Capital Fringe
• Contemporary American Theater Festival
• CulturalDC
• dog & pony dc
• Forum Theatre
• GALA Hispanic Theatre
• Mosaic Theater Company of DC
• Signature Theatre
• Theater Alliance
• Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company