The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

What The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation does

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation established in 1990 following the death of Harry Weinberg. The Foundation operates with a stated mission to fight poverty and build strong, vibrant communities, distributing approximately $150 million annually in grants to nonprofit organizations across the United States and Israel. Grantmaking is structured around five core focus areas: Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Aging. The Foundation provides capital, operating, and program grants to organizations serving low-income individuals and families, with priority geographies in Baltimore, Hawai'i, and Israel, alongside national initiatives focused on older adults and rural communities.

The Foundation's program portfolio includes direct grantmaking across its five focus areas as well as sustained investment in evidence-based programs. Key supported initiatives include CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders), developed at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in 2009 and supported by the Foundation since 2018, which combines home repair services with nursing and occupational therapy and has demonstrated approximately 6x ROI on medical cost savings. The Foundation also backs the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), supporting centers in seven states serving nearly 4,500 older adults with a stated goal of reaching 200,000 participants annually by 2028 alongside The John A. Hartford Foundation and West Health. Additional major initiatives include the $30 million Baltimore Library Project (17 libraries serving over 7,700 students), LGBTQ-affirming affordable senior housing in partnership with SAGE (approximately 1,000 units across 10 projects since 2017), and the Together Ending Need (TEN) National Affinity Group on Jewish Poverty launched with the Jewish Funders Network.

The Foundation is funded by an investment portfolio of approximately $3.2 billion managed by Chief Investment Officer David Gilmore and Investment Director Geoffrey Abrahams, with endowment returns underwriting the annual $150 million grant payout. It operates offices in Owings Mills, Maryland (headquarters) and Honolulu, Hawai'i, and is staffed by 11–50 employees. Governance is provided by a Board of Directors chaired by Paula Pretlow (since 2023), with Nimrod Goor named as the next board chair effective July 16, 2026 — the Foundation's first Israeli board chair — and Maria Cancian appointed as a new trustee in April 2026. Day-to-day leadership is held by President and CEO Rachel Garbow Monroe, supported by Vice Presidents Marisa Castuera Hayase (Programs) and Arin Gencer (Strategy and Communications). The Foundation maintains strategic alliances with the Rockefeller Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, the National PACE Association, SAGE, and Habitat for Humanity, among others.

Name

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Legal name

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Incorporated

Website

https://hjweinbergfoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation that distributes approximately $150 million annually in grants across Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Aging to nonprofits serving low-income communities in the United States and Israel.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Philanthropic Grantmaking

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Other Grantmaking and Giving Services (813219), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

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Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA)

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Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB), International Grantmaking & Development Foundations (BPAGAKAH), Education Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAK), Health & Medical Research Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAL)

Keywords

• Philanthropic grantmaking
• Poverty alleviation grants
• Affordable housing funding
• Aging services grants
• Workforce development funding

Headquarters

HQ city

Owings Mills

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Foundation Endowment: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation operates as a private charitable foundation funded by an endowment established by Harry and Jeanette Weinberg. The Foundation distributes approximately $150 million annually in grants to nonprofits addressing poverty through five focus areas: Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Aging, serving communities in the United States and Israel.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is a private charitable foundation that distributes approximately $150 million annually in grants to nonprofit organizations in the United States and Israel. Grantmaking is organized around five core focus areas — Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Aging — and delivered through capital, operating, and program grants to nonprofits working to fight poverty and build strong communities. The foundation also supports evidence-based initiatives such as CAPABLE and PACE, the Baltimore Library Project, and Housing for LGBTQ Older Adults.

Product overview

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is a philanthropic organization that operates as a unified grantmaking foundation focused on fighting poverty and building strong communities. The foundation's core offerings consist of five programmatic focus areas—Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Aging—delivered through capital, operating, and program grants. Key supported initiatives include CAPABLE (home modification combined with nursing and occupational therapy for seniors), PACE (comprehensive eldercare allowing aging in community), Housing for LGBTQ Older Adults, the Baltimore Library Project, and the Summer Funding Collaborative. The foundation distributes approximately $150 million annually in charitable giving to nonprofits in the United States and Israel.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Housing Grants Program
• Health Grants Program
• Jobs Grants Program
• Education Grants Program
• Aging Grants Program

Quantifiable outcome

• Over $22 million invested in home repairs for more than 4,500 homes since 2013
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Rockefeller FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 April 2026Both foundations participated in the 'Big Bets for America: Baltimore' convening on April 21, 2026, bringing together over 250 leaders from philanthropy, policy, private, and nonprofit sectors to address U.S. economic challenges. While the Rockefeller Foundation announced its own initiatives at this event, the Weinberg Foundation was noted as a key Baltimore-based philanthropy participant in this collaborative effort.
• Maui Recovery Funders CollaborativecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 August 2023The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is a member of the Maui Recovery Funders Collaborative, which has awarded more than $2.7 million to 31 local nonprofits for mental health services following the 2023 Maui wildfires. The collaborative has now awarded over $9 million to 80 recipients since the disaster. The collaborative includes the Weinberg Foundation, HMSA Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, Hawai'i Community Foundation's Maui Strong Fund, and Maui United Way.
• Johns Hopkins University School of NursingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJohns Hopkins University School of Nursing developed the CAPABLE program (Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders) in 2009. The Weinberg Foundation has supported CAPABLE since 2018, helping expand the program across nearly a dozen states serving over 980 low-income adults. The Foundation also supported the creation of the CAPABLE National Center in 2022, launched by Johns Hopkins and Care Synergy.
• National PACE AssociationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Weinberg Foundation supports the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) through funding, facility construction, and expansion efforts. The Foundation has contributed to PACE centers in seven states serving nearly 4,500 older adults. Along with The John A. Hartford Foundation and West Health, the Weinberg Foundation supports the goal of reaching 200,000 PACE participants annually by 2028.
• Habitat for HumanitymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHabitat for Humanity implemented CAPABLE in 2018 as part of its Aging in Place strategy. With support from the Weinberg Foundation, Habitat is expanding implementation of the program across nine additional affiliates and evaluating how the approach can help older adult homeowners through critical home repairs and healthcare services.
• SAGEmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Weinberg Foundation's partnership with SAGE has led to almost 1,000 new units of LGBTQ-affirming affordable housing for older adults since 2017. The Foundation has invested in 10 affordable housing projects that provide supportive environments with services tailored to LGBTQ older adults.
• Jewish Funders Network (Together Ending Need)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Weinberg Foundation and Jewish Funders Network launched the National Affinity Group on Jewish Poverty in 2019, which became Together Ending Need (TEN) in 2023. This collaborative effort aims to standardize data on Jewish poverty, change the narrative, and engage funders in addressing poverty in the American Jewish community.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• The Annie E. Casey Foundation: Baltimore-headquartered private foundation with comparable scale focused on child welfare, economic mobility, and community change — a closely analogous regional-national grantmaking model with overlapping programs and shared Baltimore footprint.
• The John A. Hartford Foundation: A national private foundation focused on improving care for older adults; a direct co-funder and strategic partner on the PACE expansion goal of 200,000 participants by 2028 and CAPABLE — operating in the same aging-services philanthropic niche.
• The Kresge Foundation: Large US private foundation with similar grantmaking scale focused on opportunity, health, and community development — a comparable multi-thematic endowment-driven foundation with broad social impact programs.
• West Health: Family of nonprofit organizations focused on successful aging and lowering healthcare costs; direct strategic partner with Weinberg on PACE and CAPABLE expansion — closely aligned mission and co-funding activity.

Broad incumbents

• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: One of the largest US health-focused foundations; broader scope than Weinberg's Health pillar but overlapping in health equity, aging, and social determinants of health.
• The Rockefeller Foundation: Major US private foundation with substantially larger assets; recently partnered with the Weinberg Foundation in the Big Bets for America: Baltimore convening — comparable as a peer philanthropic institution with national economic mobility goals.
• The Ford Foundation: Significantly larger US private foundation with a global footprint and focus on inequality; a top-tier peer institution in the same endowment-driven grantmaking model with multi-thematic programs.
• The MacArthur Foundation: Large US private foundation with comparable asset size focused on housing, education, and economic opportunity — overlapping with Weinberg's Housing and Education pillars and operating a similar scale of grantmaking.
• The Pew Charitable Trusts: Major US non-governmental organization with a similarly sized endowment funding research, policy, and community programs — overlapping with Weinberg's evidence-based and field-building approach to philanthropy.

Regional players

• The California Endowment: Large health-focused private foundation with comparable grantmaking scale but primarily serving California communities — a similarly structured regional private foundation focused on health access and underserved populations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

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M&A

Investments2 records

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