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Charles a Weyerhaeuser Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Charles a Weyerhaeuser Memorial 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.

$492k
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$575kEducation$354kEnvironment$281kHuman Services$170kAnimals$155kInternational$130kHealth$93kYouth Development$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $189k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $303k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS INC$30,500
THE BLAKE SCHOOL$25,000
MOUNTAINS TO SOUND GREENWAY TRUST$22,000
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND$22,000
THE MOUNT$20,000
BILLION OYSTER PROJECT$19,500
MID-COLUMBIA FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT GROUP$17,500
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR LOVELAND$15,500
MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION$15,000
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL$11,075
BUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST$11,075
GUTHRIE THEATRE$11,075
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$11,075
FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION EDUCATION FUND$11,000
CORAL REEF ALLIANCE$10,200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $2k → 6%HEROES AND HORSES: $7k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8k → 14%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $2k → 6%HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $25k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8k → 14%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $2k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $8k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $9k → 14%WARREN VILLAGE: $8k → 12%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $7k → 14%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $2k → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $15k → 17%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%INLAND LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 62 repeat orgs$558k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
65

Total granted

$1.8M
$430k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

82%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • TB
    THE BLAKE SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +13%
  • EW
    EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +28%
  • WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP
    3× · 2021–2023 · $76k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • TD
    Translifeline DBA Trans Lifelinegraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue +84%
  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $19k · revenue -16%
  • PM
    PATH MAKING IT HOME
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
3
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
6
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
7
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
11
Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment
12
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dogs Unbroken. 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

120 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. 120 of the 150 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
120/120
Grantees still filing
74/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC: $85,000 · OtherEDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INCBUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST: $57,875 · OtherBUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WESTGUTHRIE THEATRE: $51,075 · OtherWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $76,167 · OtherWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFPThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $52,500 · Other+67 more: $692,626 · Other+67 moreTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $125,000 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOLJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $75,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSI…Montana State University Foundation Inc: $59,520 · EducationMontana State Universi…AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $56,325 · EducationAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50,575 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL …The Pierpont Morgan Library: $35,000 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Li…ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $19,500 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ MINNESOTA: $17,500 · Education+2 more: $9,500 · EducationMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $76,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUB…COLORADO BALLET: $38,100 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO BALL…MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $33,200 · Arts & CultureMORRISON COUN…FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC: $32,300 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF LI…CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA ART …BETSY-TACY SOCIETY: $12,000 · Arts & CultureGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC: $10,600 · Arts & CultureTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture4 COMMUNITY THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $30,417 · Arts & Culture+10 moreFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $52,520 · EnvironmentFOREST HI…The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust: $22,000 · EnvironmentThe Mount…NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $20,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL …MID-COLUMBIA FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT: $17,500 · EnvironmentMID-COLUM…MONTANA WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $17,500 · EnvironmentMONTANA W…THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $12,400 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL…CHARLESTON WATERKEEPER: $10,100 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $10,000 · EnvironmentGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentPRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST: $10,000 · Environment+4 more: $17,300 · Environment+4 moreHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $38,500 · Human ServicesHATHAWAY-…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED W…INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesINDIAN LA…HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC: $26,500 · Human ServicesHUMAN RES…FARMLINK PROJECT: $16,000 · Human ServicesFARMLINK …THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOC…WARREN VILLAGE INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesKRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $13,100 · Human Services+2 morePOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $30,000 · AnimalsSouth Carolina Aquarium: $20,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INC: $7,000 · AnimalsHEART OF THE VALLEY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsCHARLESTON CARRIAGE HORSE ADVOCATES: $5,000 · AnimalsPET HELPERS INC: $5,000 · Animals+8 more: $10,700 · AnimalsFARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND INC: $53,000 · Civil RightsINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $29,500 · Civil RightsNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $12,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Other$1,015,243Education$473,420Arts & Culture$277,617Environment$209,320Human Services$202,100Animals$120,200Civil Rights$107,000

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 budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $76,167 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $76,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $75,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc: $59,520 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $56,325 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND INC: $53,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $52,520 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $52,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50,575 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $38,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO BALLET: $38,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $33,200 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC: $32,300 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $29,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC: $26,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROUNDWORK DENVER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust: $22,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $22,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATIONINC: $21,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $20,020 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $19,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITIES INC: $19,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ MINNESOTA: $17,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMID-COLUMBIA FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT: $17,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMONTANA WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $17,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $12,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETSY-TACY SOCIETY: $12,000 over 5y, 2.6% 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.

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.

Montana Community Fou…Yellowstone Club Comm…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Coastal Community Fou…John M Rivers Jr Foun…First Interstate Banc…The Jamf Nation Globa…The Denver FoundationDennis & Phyllis Wash…Moonlight Community F…Pathfinder Foundation…Guffey Family Foundat…
Montana Community Foundation IncMT22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Moonlight Community Foundation · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · Guffey Family 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 Charles a Weyerhaeuser Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles a Weyerhaeuser Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Charles a Weyerhaeuser Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Charles a Weyerhaeuser Memorial Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 150 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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