· Private foundation
The Elizabeth M Webster & Maricich -Paen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE ELIZABETH M WEBSTER & MARICICH -PAEN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORWICH UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ST LUKES WR FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WORD OF HONOR FUND | $20,000 |
| HIGHER GROUND SUN VALLEY | $15,000 |
| WOOD RIVER EXTREME SKIJORING ASSOC | $11,000 |
| CAMPANILE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEEN COURT | $10,000 |
| CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING FOUND | $10,000 |
| THE ADVOCATES | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN MICHAEL SULES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TWIN FALLS OPTIMIST YOUTH HOUSE | $10,000 |
| GUARDIAN REVIVAL | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN J WAMPLER FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| CRISIS TEXT LINE | $8,000 |
| BLINKNOW FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- HGHIGHER GROUND USA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +73%
- WOWord of Honor Fund7× · 2018–2024 · $138k · revenue +34%
- NUNorwich University4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UOUNITED OSTOMY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2018 · $15k
- BFBARBELLS FOR BOOBSone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -100%
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The robert irvine foundation is a not-for-profit entity and is tax exempt under 501(c) (3) of the internal revenue code (irc). the organization supports and strengthens the physical and mental well-being of our service members, veterans,…
Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…
Swords to plowshares' mission is to heal the wounds of war, to restore dignity, hope and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to significantly reduce homelessness and poverty among veterans.
The mission of the warriors for freedom foundation is to provide a safe community, constant support, and year round activities, where we can restore hope, renew purpose, and revitalize our veterans and their families.
Army ranger lead the way fund is an active duty, casualty assistance, recovery, transition and veterans organization that provides financial support to u.s. army rangers and the families of those who have died, have been disabled or who…
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…
At Sheep Dog Impact Assistance (SDIA), our mission is to engage, assist, and empower Sheep Dogs - military personnel, veterans, and first responders and their families, through transformative "Get Off The Couch" programming. By connecting…
To offer compassionate care to animals, support safe communities, and provide socially conscious sheltering. (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stephen Michael Sules Foundation. 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 21 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 — 2% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 73 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 HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds Word of Honor Fund ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
- Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Stephen Michael Sules Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS TEXT LINE INC ↗
- Who funds Stephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP ↗
- Who funds TWIN FALLS OPTIMIST YOUTH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds St Jude House Inc ↗
- Who funds Wood River Extreme Ski Joring Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Range Of Motion Project ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN REVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Sawtooth Sports Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL ↗
- Who funds SparkHope Automotive ↗
- Who funds BARBELLS FOR BOOBS ↗
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: Boswell Family Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good
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 Elizabeth M Webster & Maricich -Paen 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.