· Private foundation
The Kristina & William Catto 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
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 $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $250,000 |
| OPTIMAL WELLNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| OCEANA | $80,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $50,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE BISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOYS DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $25,000 |
| ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| RED CLOUD RENEWABLES | $20,000 |
| SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $20,000 |
| THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | $20,000 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC | $15,000 |
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, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 99% of The Kristina & William Catto Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 11% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- OWOPTIMAL WELLNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $625k · revenue +33% · 100% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $469k · revenue +79%
- DODefenders of Wildlife8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- OWOPEN WELLNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +39%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CLARAone grant, 2018 · $25k
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 establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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.
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is O Street Museum 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 113 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 OPTIMAL WELLNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds O STREET MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds The Potomac School ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Casey Trees ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds RED CLOUD RENEWABLE ↗
- Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE FOR DC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Kristina & William Catto 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.
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.