Kansas · Private foundation
Cape Flattery 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.
- $502k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Cape Flattery Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Blue Mountain Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Cape Flattery Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $502k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Cape Flattery Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $372k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $399k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $386k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $404k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $542k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $479k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $458k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $354k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla | $410,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Board of Trustees of Whitman College | $331,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc | $223,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho | $173,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Museum of Flight Foundation | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival | $150,000 | 6 | 23% |
| Blue Mountain Land Trust | $120,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Community Council | $115,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Copper Canyon Press | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla | $410,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Board of Trustees of Whitman College | $331,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc | $223,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho | $173,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Museum of Flight Foundation | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival | $150,000 | 6 | 23% |
| Blue Mountain Land Trust | $120,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Community Council | $115,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Copper Canyon Press | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Bush School | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Walla Walla Alliance for the Homeless | $55,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blue Mountain Action Council | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Street | $20,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Vital Wines | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Student Health Options | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Downtown Walla Walla Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cape Flattery Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Sherwood Trust · Mary Garner Esary Trust · Clara and Art Bald Trust · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · Seattle Foundation · United Way of the Blue Mountains · Inatai Foundation · Artsfund · Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation
How this is measured
About Cape Flattery Foundation
- How much does Cape Flattery Foundation give?
- Cape Flattery Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $501,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cape Flattery Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (77%), Education (9%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Cape Flattery Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla ($410k), Board of Trustees of Whitman College ($331k), Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc ($223k).
- Does Cape Flattery Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cape Flattery Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cape Flattery Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Mountain Community Foundation, Sherwood Trust, Mary Garner Esary Trust.
- Where is Cape Flattery Foundation based?
- Cape Flattery Foundation is based in KS.
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