· Private foundation
F T Weyerhaeuser Family Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $282k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| REEFS UNKNOWN | $30,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $30,000 |
| HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC | $25,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT | $20,000 |
| GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $20,000 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $15,000 |
| HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION | $11,000 |
| BUCKINGHAM BROWNE AND NICHOLS SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $10,000 |
| HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC | $5,000 |
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, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of F T Weyerhaeuser Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 29% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- NENEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +2%
- RUREEFS UNKNOWN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $121k · revenue +2%
- HSHEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- WWWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY - MINNESOTA CHAPTERone grant, 2023 · $10k
- WIWILDERNESS INQUIRY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -18%
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.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.
To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the most unlike its peers is Health Story Collaborative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 36 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 SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REEFS UNKNOWN INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds The Monadnock Conservancy ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Osilas Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Hawkins Family Foundation · The Orchard Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 F T Weyerhaeuser Family Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School — 0% 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.