· 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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| YWCA OF WALLA WALLA | $65,000 |
| WALLA WALLA SYMPHONY | $60,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO | $55,000 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,900 |
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 (FY17–24, $430k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +55% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA8× · 2017–2024 · $410k · revenue +86%
- BOBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $331k · revenue +87%
- WWWalla Walla Symphony Society Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $223k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- NPNW PUBLIC RADIO WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $87k
- PUPIONEER UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $30k
- HSHOPE STREETone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +10%
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.
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
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.
Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.
The wwcc foundation's mission is support student access and educational excellence at walla walla community college.
The mission of washington association for community health is to strengthen and advocate for washington's community health centers (chcs) as they build healthcare access, innovation, and value. the association provides training and…
Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.
The mission of the washington education association is to advance the professional interests of its members in order to make public education the best it can be for students, staff, and communities.
Washington women's foundation is a strong and inclusive collective of informed women who together influence community transformation through individual and collective discovery, high-impact grant making and by listening to and respecting…
To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…
We are a community of cpas and financial professionals cultivating authentic relationships, unique learning experiences, and purposeful advocacy for our future.
Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla and the most unlike its peers is Student Health Options. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 31 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COPPER CANYON PRESS ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found ↗
- Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET ↗
- Who funds VITAL WINES ↗
- Who funds STUDENT HEALTH OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WALLA WALLA FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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
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 Cape Flattery 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.