· Private foundation
Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield’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 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $491k. 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k14 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WSU FOUNDATION | $115,000 |
| WW SCHOOL DISTRICT JC HAYNER PARK | $30,000 |
| WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND | $25,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WW | $25,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CITY OF WALLA WALLA-PARKS AND REC | $24,000 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| THE HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| BLUE MT HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| YWCA | $15,000 |
| HELPLINE | $15,000 |
| WW VALLEY EARLY LEARNING COALITION | $15,000 |
| CHRISTIAN AID CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $68k) 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 +22% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2020, 30 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, 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 FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- BOBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +87%
- WWWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $151k · revenue +209%
- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL6× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- WWWALLA WALLA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $280k
- MFMilton Freewater Downtown Allianceone grant, 2017 · $85k · revenue -40% · 82% of their budget
- PSPROVIDENCE ST MARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +20%
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.
To transform the Fort Walla Walla Amphitheater into a nationally recognized regional theater, while enhancing the cultural identity of Walla Walla through locally produced performing arts events and accessible educational opportunities.
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
The mission of the walla walla basin watershed council is to protect the resources of the walla walla watershed, deal with issues in advance of resource degredation and enhance the overall health of the watershed, while also protecting as…
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.
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
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 services and assistance to senior citizens
to provide compassionate care to patients in the final stages of life and support for their loved ones and caregivers.
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 Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 106 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Milton Freewater Downtown Alliance ↗
- Who funds Trilogy Recovery Community ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Helpline ↗
- Who funds Lillie Rice Center ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA YMCA ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE WALLA WALLA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Sherwood Trust · Clara and Art Bald Trust · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation · United Way of the Blue Mountains · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · Wells Charitable Trust · Milton-Freewater Area Foundation Baker Boyer Trust 5-015736 · Artsfund
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 Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield 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.
- Milton Freewater Downtown Alliance — 13% of income from government
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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