· Private foundation
The Dudley Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $379k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Global Greengrants Fund | $30,000 |
| Xerces Society for Invertebrate Con | $22,000 |
| Move to Amend | $20,001 |
| Protect our Winters | $20,000 |
| Restore Americas Estuaries | $18,500 |
| Lydia Place | $18,000 |
| Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Assoc | $17,500 |
| 350org | $17,001 |
| Green America | $17,000 |
| Common Threads | $16,002 |
| Population Connection | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,501 |
| End of Life WA | $15,500 |
| Jewish Voice for Peace | $14,086 |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater WA | $14,001 |
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 (FY17–25, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
52 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 14 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- POPROTECT OUR WINTERS9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +661%
- NSNOOKSACK SALMON ENHANCEMENT ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +124%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- XSXerces Society for Invertebratesone grant, 2021 · $16k
- RFReSources For Sustainable Communitione grant, 2023 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $13k
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.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unity Care Northwest and the most unlike its peers is Homesnow. 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 32 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 — 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.
50 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. 50 of the 91 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 GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds NOOKSACK SALMON ENHANCEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION NW ↗
- Who funds RESTORE AMERICA'S ESTUARIES ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds RE SOURCES ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LYDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMESNOW ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE IN POLITICS ↗
- Who funds MT BAKER PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds KTK-BELT INC ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds North Cascades Institute ↗
- Who funds MOVE TO AMEND ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER ↗
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: Whatcom Community Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · Mary H Storer Foundation · First Fed Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Ciel Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Mount Baker Foundation · Riverstyx Foundation · PeaceHealth · Patagoniaorg
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 Dudley 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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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