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The Betty and Wes Foster Family 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.

$615k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

International$1.0MFood & Nutrition$854kEducation$845kEnvironment$358kHousing & Shelter$245kArts & Culture$197kCommunity Improvement$192kCivil Rights$187kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $395k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$150,000
AMERICARES$75,000
BLACKWATER BICYCLE ASSOCIATION$60,000
1 UPHANDLES INC$60,000
BISHOP WALKER SCHOOL$50,000
SUSTAINABLE HARVEST INTERNATIONAL$30,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$30,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$25,000
SAVE THE SOUND$20,000
CANCER VACCINE COALITION$15,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
ERIN PETERSON FUND$10,000
MANNA FOOD BANK$10,000
MARTHA'S TABLE$10,000
FEEDING AMERICA$8,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE: $12k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $11k → 12%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%Cathedral Kitchen: $1k → 12%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $1k → 12%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $1k → 12%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $1k → 12%CATHEDRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 12%LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERIVCES: $5k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%Specially Adapted Resource Clubs (SPARC): $12k → 6%CAPITAL HILL GROUP MINISTRY: $25k → 14%CAPITOL HILL GROUP MINISTRY: $20k → 14%EVERYONE HOME DC (FORMER CAPITOL HILL GROUP MINISTRY): $18k → 14%EVERYONE HOME DC (FORMER CAPITOL HILL GROUP MINISTRY): $18k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 74 repeat orgs$920k to everyone else

74 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
62

Total granted

$4.2M
$784k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+65%

Still filing today

72%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • SH
    Sustainable Harvest International
    9× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +20%
  • MANNA FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $162k · revenue +204%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $145k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $171k · revenue -17%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY - DISASTER RELIEF
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • BB
    BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +140%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
11
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
12
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is NORTH10 Philadelphia. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …Senior Support ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Cancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Military Veterans SupportCommunity Arts CentersPregnancy Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/102
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,463

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.

04the grantee network

98 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 98 of the 142 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/98
Grantees still filing
73/98
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BISHOP WALKER SCHOOL — $450,000 · OtherBISHOP WALKER SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE ARC - BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER — $85,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $80,000 · OtherBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $114,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $85,000 · Other+77 more — $1,210,925 · Other+77 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $690,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $130,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIE…SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HONDURAS — $60,000 · InternationalSUSTAINABLE VILLAGES …+6 more — $84,225 · International+6 moreSustainable Harvest International — $410,000 · EnvironmentSustainable Har…SAVE THE SOUND — $108,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUNDANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $49,000 · EnvironmentANACOSTIA WATER…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $47,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURC…BRANFORD LAND TRUST INC — $28,000 · Environment+7 more — $48,450 · Environment+7 moreWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $170,662 · EducationWEST VIRG…ERIN PETERSON FUND — $74,000 · EducationERIN PETE…1 UPHANDLES INC — $60,000 · Education1 UPHANDL…Civic Nation — $40,000 · EducationCivic Nat…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $22,000 · EducationRIDESHARE 2 VOTE AWARE — $20,000 · EducationCB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $17,000 · Education+4 more — $15,500 · EducationMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $162,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOO…CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $145,200 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL A…Feeding America — $50,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding A…MARTHA'S TABLE INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S …Arlington Food Assistance Center — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,000 · Food & NutritionEveryone Home DC — $81,300 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR OTHERS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte — $12,000 · Human ServicesSPECIALLY ADAPTED RESOURCE CLUBS — $12,000 · Human Services+3 more — $9,000 · Human ServicesGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $78,500 · Arts & CultureMUSICOPIA INC — $32,500 · Arts & CulturePITCH HER PRODUCTIONS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureLEVINE MUSIC INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSIGNATURE THEATRE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA — $6,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $12,900 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,324,925International$964,725Environment$690,450Education$419,162Food & Nutrition$413,200Human Services$185,300Arts & Culture$179,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $690,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Harvest International — $410,000 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $170,662 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $162,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $145,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $130,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $114,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND — $108,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $85,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEveryone Home DC — $81,300 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $78,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetERIN PETERSON FUND — $74,000 over 9y, 42% of budgetSUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HONDURAS — $60,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $57,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACT FOR ALEXANDRIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetClimate Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFeeding America — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $49,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $47,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $47,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC — $44,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCivic Nation — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC — $32,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMercy Ships International — $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANFORD LAND TRUST INC — $28,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetREGISTER HER — $25,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOTERIDERS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIDESHARE 2 VOTE AWARE — $20,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $17,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC — $16,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetArlington Food Assistance Center — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER VACCINE COALITION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget
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 AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Sustainable Harvest International
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE
  • Who funds SAVE THE SOUND
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
  • Who funds Everyone Home DC
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds ERIN PETERSON FUND
  • Who funds 1 UPHANDLES INC
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HONDURAS
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • Who funds ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA
  • Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC
  • Who funds Climate Foundation
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SOME INC
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC
  • Who funds Civic Nation
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC
  • Who funds MUSICOPIA INC
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC23.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Joseph E & Marjorie B Jones Foundation Corporation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc

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 The Betty and Wes Foster Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 15%
  • Save the Sound37% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc15% of income from government
  • Casa Inc8% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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