· Private foundation
Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BACKPACK BRIGADE | $10,000 |
| ARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD | $5,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $5,000 |
| TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| TOYS FOR KIDS | $5,000 |
| PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM | $5,000 |
| WA ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +30% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- AWANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS5× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +50%
- BBBACKPACK BRIGADE2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +70%
- BYBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- LELOCAL ECOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE FREMONTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +179%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA BASINone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- AADVOTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +174%
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.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Seattle girls' school is a 5th through 8th grade middle school committed to inspiring and developing courageous leaders who think independently, work collaboratively, learn joyfully and champion change. we empower students to be leaders in…
Seattle country day school is an independent, coeducational school serving kindergarten through eighth grade, inspiring gifted children to reach their potential through inquiry, curiosity, and wonder.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Rainier prep provides public education to students in grades 5-8 in the highline area near seattle/tacoma. rainier prep seeks to prepare students for college, career readiness, and to become leaders in their communities.
The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action. the organization's vision is ending hunger in washington state.
The seattle waldorf school mission is: daily we strive to inspire learning, courage, and joy in the developing human being.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
Cultivates the academic potential and leadership skills of underrepresented students. by creating access to opportunities and holistic support, we increase college graduation rates and empower new generations of leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tacoma Arts Live and the most unlike its peers is Veteran Art Institute. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 35 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 ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds LOCAL ECOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE FREMONT ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN ↗
- Who funds ARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING ↗
- Who funds ADVOT ↗
- Who funds Rebirth Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TACOMA ARTS LIVE ↗
- Who funds VETERAN ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES ↗
- Who funds POINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TOYS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS ↗
- Who funds STEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF THE CHILDREN ↗
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: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Artsfund · Wm Kilworth Fdn Tw · Fales Foundation Trust · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn
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 Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari 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.
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.