· Private foundation
John W Pope Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES | $8,000 |
| RED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP | $5,000 |
| BACK PORCH RADIO BROADCASTING WORT | $4,000 |
| PEACE ACTION OF WISCONSIN | $4,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,700 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $3,100 |
| LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT | $3,100 |
| BEYOND NUCLEAR | $3,100 |
| RACHEL CARSON COUNCIL | $3,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,100 |
| WORLD BEYOND WAR | $3,000 |
| RAINBOW HOSPICE CARE INC | $2,600 |
| MISSION COMPASSION PAWS | $1,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of its 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.
15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +110%
- RFRED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +274%
- LSLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT7× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- PEPEACE EDUCATION PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $3k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
The Partnership Project is organized and operated exclusively to enhance protection of the natural environment by improving the effectiveness of environmental organizations. It currently has 17 groups participating, including the largest…
Education, advocacy and research related to the conservation of watersheds, rivers, and aquatic species.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
To empower women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism and redirect excessive pentagon spending toward unmet human and environmental needs.
The Rural Peoples Platform organizes people across rural North Central Washington around local initiatives and a long-term agenda that makes economic stability possible and sustainable for all working people and families.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
Pax fauna exists to design a more effective social movement for animal freedom in the u.s., using original research as well as careful study of social movement literature and the recent history of the animal movement, in order to reverse…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 17 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 PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC ↗
- Who funds RED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Back Porch Radio Broadcasting Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Rachel Carson Council Inc ↗
- Who funds BEYOND NUCLEAR ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds MISSION COMPASSION PAW INC ↗
- Who funds World Beyond War ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA HOUSE 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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John W Pope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John W Pope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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