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Helen and Will Webster Foundation at a glance

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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.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$3.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$62MHealth$22MArts & Culture$5.4MEnvironment$4.3MPhilanthropy$3.6MYouth Development$1.2MPublic Benefit$630kFood & Nutrition$522kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $309k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+14 grants · $14M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$227M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION$3,920,000
UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION$2,239,000
ELKHORN SLOUGH FOUNDATION$1,505,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000,000
HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALTADENA CHILDREN'S CENTER: $35k → 14%HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $20k → 13%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 14%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

VT
NH
WA
NY
OH
NJ
CA
TN
OK
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99M · 75 repeat orgs$912k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
21

Total granted

$99M
$562k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+25%

Still filing today

64%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • US
    UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $38M · revenue +55% · 32% of their budget
  • PH
    Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
    7× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +25%
  • UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +224%

Funded once

  • KS
    KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • LA
    LAKE AVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • AC
    ALTADENA CHILDREN'S CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +21%
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
Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator

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…

Science & Tech
2
Association of California School Administrators

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.

—
3
Pitzer College

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.…

Education
4
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
5
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
Los Angeles Conservancy

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Marin Academy

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.

Education
10
Polytechnic School

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…

Education
11
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
12
Pacific Collegiate School

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 102 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
45/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $37,770,702 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $7,533,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INCUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $3,653,286 · EducationUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION+14 more: $8,368,895 · Education+14 morePasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $11,524,826 · HealthPasadena Hospital …American Heart Association Inc: $3,500,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Ass…YOUNG & HEALTHY: $567,748 · Health+2 more: $429,500 · HealthRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $3,100,000 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILD…FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,343,500 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING P…PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,875,223 · PhilanthropyPASADENA E…Elkhorn Slough Foundation: $1,710,000 · PhilanthropyElkhorn Sl…+1 more: $245,500 · PhilanthropyFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County: $1,480,000 · OtherFive Acres T…UC REGENTS SANTA CRUZ CAMPUS: $1,262,036 · OtherUC REGENTS S…SAINT MARKS SCHOOL ALTADENA INC: $1,015,000 · OtherSAINT MARKS …ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PSF: $750,000 · OtherALLIANCE COL…Individual grant recipient: $553,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY URBAN CENTER: $493,000 · OtherSANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $480,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $807,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS…The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $580,000 · OtherThe Center f…+52 more: $3,230,300 · Other+52 morePasadena Conservatory of Music: $2,180,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $725,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $251,750 · Arts & CultureA Noise Within: $114,170 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $151,000 · Arts & CultureLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $1,390,000 · EnvironmentARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY: $653,659 · EnvironmentCOASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL: $195,300 · Environment+1 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $1,003,820 · Recreation & Sports
Education$57,326,683Health$16,022,074Philanthropy$9,274,223Other$10,650,336Arts & Culture$3,421,920Environment$2,253,959Recreation & Sports$1,003,820

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 budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $37,770,702 over 8y, 32% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $11,524,826 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $7,533,800 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $3,653,286 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $3,100,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,343,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetPasadena Conservatory of Music: $2,180,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,875,223 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $1,840,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $1,800,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetElkhorn Slough Foundation: $1,710,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County: $1,480,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $1,390,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $1,003,820 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetACCESS BOOKS: $828,800 over 5y, 20% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $807,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetCOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $762,773 over 8y, 16% of budgetFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $750,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATION NETWORK: $730,000 over 8y, 54% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $725,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY: $653,659 over 7y, 25% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $580,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $567,748 over 4y, 15% of budgetPUENTE LEARNING CENTER: $500,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY: $300,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPinehurst Biomedical Foundation: $300,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetSANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $251,750 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $245,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLife Lab Science Program: $215,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetPUBLIC WORKS GROUP: $200,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCOASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL: $195,300 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSONG FOR CHARLIE INC: $129,500 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetA Noise Within: $114,170 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC: $75,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY AT THE MCPHERSON CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFoodWhat Incorporated: $70,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $55,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPASO ROBLES LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALTADENA CHILDREN'S CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPIE RANCH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY ↗
  • Who funds Pinehurst Biomedical Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Life Lab Science Program ↗

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.

Pasadena Community Fo…The Ahmanson Foundati…Ann Peppers FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The Rose Hills Founda…Weingart FoundationMonterey Peninsula Fo…Community Foundation …John Jewett & Helen C…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Michael J Connell Fou…
Pasadena Community FoundationCA41.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Helen and Will Webster Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen and Will Webster Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 102 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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