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Milton-Freewater Area Foundation Baker Boyer Trust 5-015736
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of MILTON-FREEWATER AREA FOUNDATION BAKER BOYER TRUST 5-015736’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILTON-FREEWATER SCHOOL DISTRICT | $35,700 |
| FRAZIER FARMSTEAD MUSEUM | $19,079 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,780 |
| ATHENA WESTON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $13,017 |
| MILTON-FREEWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,800 |
| EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $7,050 |
| ATHENAS GEM INC | $3,700 |
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $3,500 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| FORT WALLA WALLA MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| WALLA WALLA SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS | $1,850 |
| MILTON-FREEWATER AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $1,072 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- WWWALLA WALLA YMCA6× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +60%
- WWWalla Walla Symphony Society Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%
- FWFort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society5× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $11k
- FEFREEWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- COCITY OF MILTON-FREEWATERone grant, 2020 · $7k
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.
Wgu's mission is to change lives for the better by creating pathways to opportunity. wgu does this by operating and administering an institution of higher education and learning.
Baldwin wallace university is an academic community committed to the liberal arts and sciences as the foundation for lifelong learning. the university fulfills this mission through a rigorous academic program that is characterized by…
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Northwestern health sciences university prepares and serves the next generation of professionals and leaders to become vital contributors to the delivery and advancement of health care. our mission is accomplished through educational…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
Westminster university is a private, independent university dedicated to student learning. we are a community of learners with a long and honored tradition of caring deeply about students and their education. we offer liberal arts and…
The mission of pnca is to prepare students for a life of creative practice. the intent is to transform students into knowledgeable, articulate, practicing artists and designers with the ability to significantly contribute in original ways…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Through its values, the northwest conference unites its member colleges and universities in the pacific northwest to empower student-athletes in their pursuit of academic and athletic excellence at the division iii level.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walla Walla University and the most unlike its peers is Athenas Gem Inc. 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 45 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 93 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 WALLA WALLA YMCA ↗
- Who funds Milton Freewater Downtown Alliance ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATHENAS GEM INC ↗
- Who funds Milton-Freewater Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA BASIN WATERSHED FOUNDATION ↗
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: Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Sherwood Trust · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Clara and Art Bald Trust · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · Mary Garner Esary Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · Eminger Stewart Foundation Uma
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 Milton-Freewater Area Foundation Baker Boyer Trust 5-015736 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Milton Freewater Downtown Alliance — 13% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Walla Walla Basin Watershed Foundation — 4% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% 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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