· Private foundation
Abel-Weatherwax Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Abel-Weatherwax Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Grays Harbor Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $126,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC | $10,000 |
| CITY OF FOUNTAIN VALLEY | $10,000 |
| MCCALL PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS INC | $8,000 |
| GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL | $6,500 |
| NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- IOINTERNATIONAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +10%
- GWGolden West College Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +30%
- NCNIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- THTRABUCO HILLS CHEER BOOSTERS PEP SQUADone grant, 2023 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $8k
- THTRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERSone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The wcc foundation strengthens educational opportunities by providing student scholarships, supporting faculty and staff development, and assisting with key college initiatives.
San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
Orange Coast College Foundation's mission is to develop sources of support for Orange Coast College to achieve its mission by encouraging gifts of time, treasure, and talent from alumni, community members, faculty, staff, corporations,…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Southwestern College Foundation is dedicated to raising friends and funds that support all aspects of educational advancement at Southwestern College.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Higher Education: Westmont College is an undergraduate, residential, Christian, liberal arts community serving God's kingdom by cultivating thoughtful scholars, grateful servants and faithful leaders for global engagement with the academy,…
The san francisco conservatory of music (sfcm) educates exceptionally talented musicians from around the world to become artists of the highest caliber, as well as musical citizens prepared for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Creating access, excellence and success for the peninsula college community by providing funds for students and programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grays Harbor Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trabuco Hills High School Instrumental Music Boosters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Golden West College Foundation ↗
- Who funds NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds SADDLEBACK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Abel-Weatherwax Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.