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MWS Foundation Inc

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.

$9k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$171k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations MWS Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$9k38%
FY20247$8k29%
FY20236$5k50%
FY20221$1k100%
FY20212$5k50%
FY20204$2kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$9kHealth$6kScience & Tech$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kPhilanthropy$2kAnimals$2kEducation$1kArts & Culture$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
River Partners$6,00020%
Northern Sonoma County Fire Foundation$3,50040%
Russian Riverkeeper$3,00030%
Sinkyone Sanctuary$1,00011%
Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue$1,0001n/a
Geyserville Community Foundation$75020%
Palm Beach Day Academy Inc$50010%
New York School of Interior Design$50010%
Nightboat Books Inc$2501n/a
Sonoma Botanical Garden$10010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget MWS Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRiver Partners: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Sonoma County Fire Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRussian Riverkeeper: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSinkyone Sanctuary: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGeyserville Community Foundation: $750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPalm Beach Day Academy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York School of Interior Design: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Botanical Garden: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY12.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About MWS Foundation Inc

How much does MWS Foundation Inc give?
MWS Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $8,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does MWS Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Health (20%), Science & Tech (14%).
Who are MWS Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: River Partners ($6k), Northern Sonoma County Fire Foundation ($4k), Russian Riverkeeper ($3k).
Does MWS Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does MWS Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as MWS Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is MWS Foundation Inc based?
MWS Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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