· Private foundation
Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of BONNIE & CLIFFORD BRADEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALLA WALLA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| EARLY LEARNING SPEECH AND LANGUAGE | $10,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| WALLA WALLA SUMMER THEATER | $10,000 |
| WW COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| SONBRIDGE | $5,000 |
| POWER HOUSE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| WW CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN AID CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAIN | $4,500 |
| AKIN | $2,500 |
| FORT WALLA WALLA MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| CAMP FIRE OF WALLA WALLA | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–26, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2026, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL10× · 2017–2026 · $98k · revenue +141%
- TRTrilogy Recovery Community9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +19%
- FWFort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society10× · 2017–2026 · $40k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $8k
- CMCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF WALLA WALLAone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +5%
- SBSON BRIDGE DENTAL CLINICone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Our mission is to provide safe/secure low-barrier shelter and food to any adult in need in the Walla Walla region. Our hope is to build upon this foundation to stabilize people's lives while helping them to become self-sufficient. We do…
The Washington Museum Association was established to represent and serve museums of all types and sizes throughout Washington State
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
The mission and purpose of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival (WWCMF) is to promote excellence in the performance of chamber music throughout the greater Walla Walla Valley area, to embody these qualities as members of a greater…
WCSC connects and empowers older adults to live happy, healthy, and engaged lives.
The walla walla valley chamber of commerce is a member-focused organization and community partner that fosters a sustainable, healthy and vibrant economic environment through business promotion, advocacy, education and services.
to provide compassionate care to patients in the final stages of life and support for their loved ones and caregivers.
To celebrate over 150 years of Walla Walla history and the Kirkman family saga through preservation, education, events and exhibits.
Strength in every struggle and hope in every heart.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Walla Walla Summer Theater Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 50 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 BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Trilogy Recovery Community ↗
- Who funds Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Lillie Rice Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA SUMMER THEATER GROUP ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF WALLA WALLA ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Little Theatre of Walla Walla ↗
- Who funds Helpline ↗
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: Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Mary Garner Esary Trust · Clara and Art Bald Trust · Sherwood Trust · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · United Way of the Blue Mountains · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · Artsfund · Wells Charitable Trust · Patterson Charitable 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 Bonnie & Clifford Braden 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.
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