· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WW | $25,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| CITY OF WALLA WALLA-PARKS AND REC | $24,000 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| BLUE MT HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| THE HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| WW VALLEY EARLY LEARNING COALITION | $15,000 |
| HELPLINE | $15,000 |
| YWCA | $15,000 |
| WALLA WALLA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE WALLA WALLA ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield. Bigger dots raise more.
- Milton Freewater Downtown Alliance: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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