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F T Weyerhaeuser Family Fund at a glance

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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.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Environment$359kAnimals$255kArts & Culture$210kHealth$208kEducation$195kScience & Tech$126kPhilanthropy$55kInternational$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $282k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$35,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS$30,000
REEFS UNKNOWN$30,000
NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION$25,000
HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC$25,000
WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS$20,000
GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
YALE SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT$20,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$20,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS$15,000
BUCKINGHAM BROWNE AND NICHOLS SCHOOL$11,000
HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION$11,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$10,000
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF$10,000
THE RETREAT INC$5,000
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $25k → 8%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $20k → 8%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $15k → 8%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $15k → 8%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $10k → 8%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $10k → 8%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $5k → 8%SOLID GROUND: $5k → 14%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $5k → 8%HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $5k → 8%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

NH
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of F T Weyerhaeuser Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 29%.

F T Weyerhaeuser Family Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 20 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
10

Total granted

$1.2M
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

85%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +2%
  • RU
    REEFS UNKNOWN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $121k · revenue +2%
  • HS
    HEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • WW
    WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY - MINNESOTA CHAPTER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
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
5
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
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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…

Science & Tech
8
The Wildlife Society

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.

Animals
9
Lowell Observatory

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…

Science & Tech
10
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
11
Explorer West an Independent Middle School

We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.

Education
12
National Geographic Society

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts; 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.
05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 36 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BLAKE SCHOOL: $109,000 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOLYale University: $97,500 · EducationYale UniversityBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $46,000 · EducationBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NI…ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $27,000 · EducationST PAUL ACADEMY AND SU…SHADY HILL SCHOOL: $12,500 · EducationNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND FOREST…HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $51,000 · EnvironmentHARRIS CENTER FOR …CLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $35,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CONSERVATI…350ORG: $12,500 · Environment+3 more: $13,000 · Environment+3 moreSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $197,000 · AnimalsSAN FRANCISCO Z…+2 more: $8,000 · AnimalsMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $70,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA MUSE…WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $60,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE BEAR CEN…MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $45,000 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SO…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PU…REEFS UNKNOWN INC: $121,000 · Science & TechREEFS UNK…WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $5,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $25,000 · OtherWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEM…NATURE CONSERVANCY - MN CHAPTER: $15,000 · OtherHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $85,000 · OtherHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUN…GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherGREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE …WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $45,000 · OtherWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP+7 more: $45,500 · Other+7 moreHEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesSolid Ground: $5,000 · Human Services
Education$292,000Environment$236,500Animals$205,000Arts & Culture$185,000Science & Tech$126,000Other$320,500Human Services$115,000

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 budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $197,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetREEFS UNKNOWN INC: $121,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetHEALTH STORY COLLABORATIVE INC: $110,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $109,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $97,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $70,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $60,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $51,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACER CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Monadnock Conservancy: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mightycause Charitabl…Osilas FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationThe Hawkins Family Fo…The Orchard FoundationNicholson Family Foun…Fidelity FoundationXcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Boston Foundation IncCharities Aid Foundat…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 F T Weyerhaeuser Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from F T Weyerhaeuser Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 63%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 36 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home