· Private foundation
Helen and Will Webster Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $309k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+14 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION | $3,920,000 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $2,239,000 |
| ELKHORN SLOUGH FOUNDATION | $1,505,000 |
| HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,000,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $732,646 |
| PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $575,000 |
| ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PSF | $500,000 |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY | $375,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA | $305,000 |
| PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $225,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k 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
- USUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $38M · revenue +55% · 32% of their budget
- PHPasadena Hospital Association Ltd7× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +25%
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +224%
Funded once
- KSKECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USCone grant, 2017 · $300k
- LALAKE AVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
- ACALTADENA CHILDREN'S CENTERone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +21%
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.
Pasadena bio collaborative incubator is a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and job creation in southern california. we encourage the growth of an innovative biotechnology industry by providing educational/training…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
The mission of polytechnic school is to develop the unique intellect, talents, and character of each student in a community dedicated to academic excellence, personal responsibility, and service to others. the school envisions a community…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Pacific collegiate school's mission is to provide exemplary, standards based college preparatory and fine arts education for public middle and high school students of santa cruz county and bordering areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy and the most unlike its peers is Whitman County Historical Society. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 102 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 UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
- Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Elkhorn Slough Foundation ↗
- Who funds Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS BOOKS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN ↗
- Who funds FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PASADENA EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
- Who funds YOUNG & HEALTHY ↗
- Who funds PUENTE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pinehurst Biomedical Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Life Lab Science Program ↗
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Michael J Connell Foundation Michael J Connell Charities Lte
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 Helen and Will Webster Foundation 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.
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.