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Mary H Storer 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $510k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $390k
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $375,000 |
| COWTOWN SKATE | $100,000 |
| THE JOY BUS | $90,000 |
| WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING | $75,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA | $75,000 |
| MAX HIGBEE CENTER | $50,000 |
| ROAD2HOME | $40,000 |
| WAISN | $40,000 |
| TWISPWORKS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| K9S 4 MOBILITY | $30,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEYENNE INC | $30,000 |
| FRIDAY FOOD BAG FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE | $30,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +55% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 6 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County5× · 2018–2023 · $525k · revenue +177%
- CSCOWTOWN SKATE6× · 2020–2025 · $350k · revenue +134% · 32% of their budget
- CFCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM8× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CMCORBET MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $215k
- KKENYARELIEFORGone grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -21%
- TBTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +7%
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.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
We collaborate with diverse partners to drive sustainable outdoor recreation initiatives in north central washington. tread is committed to protecting and sustaining north central washington's outdoor spaces so future generations can…
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
Provide food for individuals in need
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition's (WMBC) mission is to preserve and enhance non-motorized trail access in Whatcom County through stewardship, education and advocacy.WMBC is a federal non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We work with many…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Common Threads Farm and the most unlike its peers is Pedal Project. 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 25 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
138 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. 138 of the 184 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 Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COWTOWN SKATE ↗
- Who funds MT BAKER PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds MAX HIGBEE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JOY BUS ↗
- Who funds FRIDAY FOOD BAG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds K9'S 4 MOBILITY INC ↗
- Who funds KENYARELIEFORG ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEYENNE INC ↗
- Who funds UNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FERNDALE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMEA INC ↗
- Who funds PICKFORD FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Canine Angels Service Teams ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE ↗
- Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds ROAD2HOME ↗
- Who funds FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds PEPPERMINT RIDGE ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM MILLION TREES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OKANOGAN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR TREE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
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: Whatcom Community Foundation · First Fed Foundation · Mount Baker Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Riverstyx Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · PeaceHealth · Medina Foundation
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 Mary H Storer 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.
- Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
- Bandon Community Youth Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Asante — 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.
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