· Private foundation
Sherwood Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAR Project | $160,000 |
| Christain Aid Center | $150,000 |
| Carnegie Picture Lab | $116,563 |
| Rural Development Initiatives | $111,101 |
| Trilogy Recovery Community | $100,000 |
| City of Walla Walla | $100,000 |
| Blue Mountain Action Council | $75,000 |
| Blue Mountain Health Cooperative | $70,115 |
| Communities in Schools of the Blue Mountain Region | $70,000 |
| Walla Walla Alliance for the Homeless | $58,621 |
| Community Council | $50,000 |
| Salvation Army | $26,000 |
| Vital Wines | $20,000 |
| Catholic Charities of Spokane DBA Catholic Charities Eastern Washington | $18,000 |
| Milton-Freewater Neighborhood Senior Center | $17,000 |
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, $760k) 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 +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
- CCCOMMUNITY COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $825k · revenue +2% · 53% of their budget
RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $646k · revenue +114%- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL5× · 2017–2024 · $593k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- COCITY OF COLLEGE PLACEone grant, 2021 · $500k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC TRI-COUNTY PARTNERSone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -39%
- BMBlue Mountain Community Foundation for Comittment to Communityone grant, 2023 · $175k
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.
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
The mission of the walla walla basin watershed council is to protect the resources of the walla walla watershed, deal with issues in advance of resource degredation and enhance the overall health of the watershed, while also protecting as…
The walla walla valley chamber of commerce is a member-focused organization and community partner that fosters a sustainable, healthy and vibrant economic environment through business promotion, advocacy, education and services.
To transform the Fort Walla Walla Amphitheater into a nationally recognized regional theater, while enhancing the cultural identity of Walla Walla through locally produced performing arts events and accessible educational opportunities.
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
WCSC connects and empowers older adults to live happy, healthy, and engaged lives.
The Washington Museum Association was established to represent and serve museums of all types and sizes throughout Washington State
Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.
To deepen the sense of community within the walla walla region by safekeeping the past, informing the present, and shaping our future.
Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement
The primary purpose of Washington State Rural Development Council is to work with rural partners around Washington State to coordinate services to rural communities and promote initiatives that support rural community and economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla and the most unlike its peers is Saint Basil Academy of Classical St. 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 15. 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 — 0.0% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 137 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 COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA YMCA ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN HEALTH COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC TRI-COUNTY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds The Star Project ↗
- Who funds Little Theatre of Walla Walla ↗
- Who funds Trilogy Recovery Community ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Picture Lab ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ST MARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA GUN CLUB ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET ↗
- Who funds Tri-State Steelheaders ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Community Hospice ↗
- Who funds Lillie Rice Center ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLUS DELTA AFTER SCHOOL STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds SAINT BASIL ACADEMY OF CLASSICAL ST ↗
- Who funds VITAL WINES ↗
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 · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · Clara and Art Bald Trust · Mary Garner Esary Trust · United Way of the Blue Mountains · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Milton-Freewater Area Foundation Baker Boyer Trust 5-015736 · School's Out Washington
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 Sherwood Trust 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.
- Milton Freewater Downtown Alliance — 13% of income from government
- Rural Development Initiatives Inc — 11% 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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