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Abel-Weatherwax Foundation at a glance

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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.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

4
’19
6
’20
6
’21
5
’22
4
’23
5
’24
5
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$842kEducation$91kReligion$70kPublic Benefit$43kHuman Services$19kArts & Culture$18kYouth Development$13kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MCCALL PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS INC: $8k → 8%TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL CHEER: $10k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $3k → 9%GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $126k → 18%TRABUCO HILLS CHEER BOOSTERS PEP SQUAD: $8k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $3k → 9%GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $124k → 18%TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $3k → 9%GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $123k → 18%CITY OF FOUNTAIN VALLEY: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $3k → 9%GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $122k → 18%TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $3k → 9%GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $120k → 18%CITY OF FOUNTAIN VALLEY: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $3k → 9%GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $117k → 18%TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $3k → 9%GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $112k → 18%CITY OF FOUNTAIN VALLEY: $10k → 10%TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL: $7k → 10%CITY OF FOUNTAIN VALLEY: $8k → 10%TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUMENTAL: $5k → 10%CITY OF FOUNTAIN VALLEY: $5k → 10%TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL CHEER: $3k → 10%RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA: $8k → 10%PACIFIC THEATRE BALLET INC: $4k → 10%PACIFIC THEATRE BALLET: $4k → 10%PACIFIC THEATRE BALLET: $3k → 10%NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $4k → 10%NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $3k → 10%NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $3k → 10%NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $3k → 10%NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $3k → 10%NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $3k → 10%NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $3k → 10%SADDLEBACK COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE FDN: $5k → 10%GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE FDN: $5k → 10%GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE FDN: $5k → 10%GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE FDN: $5k → 10%GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE FDN: $5k → 10%GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE FDN: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$240k · 8 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$240k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+37%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IO
    INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES
    7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +10%
  • GW
    Golden West College Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +30%
  • NC
    NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TH
    TRABUCO HILLS CHEER BOOSTERS PEP SQUAD
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • TH
    TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +2%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Whatcom Community College Foundation

The wcc foundation strengthens educational opportunities by providing student scholarships, supporting faculty and staff development, and assisting with key college initiatives.

Education
2
San Diego Christian College

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.

Education
3
Orange Coast College Foundation

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,…

Education
4
Illinois College

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…

Education
5
Southwestern College Foundation

Southwestern College Foundation is dedicated to raising friends and funds that support all aspects of educational advancement at Southwestern College.

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6
Harvey Mudd 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…

Education
7
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
8
Dunwoody College of Technology

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…

Education
9
St Francis College

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.

Education
10
Westmont College

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,…

Education
11
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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.

Education
12
Peninsula College Foundation

Creating access, excellence and success for the peninsula college community by providing funds for students and programs.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grays Harbor Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $842,000 · PhilanthropyGRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCITY OF FOUNTAIN VALLEY: $42,500 · OtherCITY OF FOUNTA…TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL: $30,500 · OtherTRABUCO HILLS …NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $18,500 · OtherNIGHTLIGHT CHR…TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL CHEER: $13,000 · OtherTRABUCO HILLS …PACIFIC THEATRE BALLET INC: $10,000 · OtherPACIFIC THEATR…MCCALL PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS INC: $8,000 · OtherMCCALL PROFESS…TRABUCO HILLS CHEER BOOSTERS PEP SQUAD: $8,000 · OtherTRABUCO HILLS …Individual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherIndividual gra…INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $70,000 · ReligionGolden West College Foundation: $38,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $17,500 · EducationTRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS: $5,000 · EducationSADDLEBACK COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY: $3,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$842,000Other$138,500Religion$70,000Education$65,500Environment$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $842,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $70,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGolden West College Foundation: $38,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $18,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSADDLEBACK COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Abel-Weatherwax Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abel-Weatherwax Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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