· Private foundation
The Sollee 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST | $10,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $10,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $2,000 |
| CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER | $1,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | $1,000 |
| OPEN HEART MAGIC | $700 |
| WASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE | $500 |
| MARTHAS TABLE | $500 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC | $200 |
| POTOMAC APPALACHIAN TRAIL CLUB INC | $200 |
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 (FY22–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% 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 +4% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
EARTHJUSTICE5× · 2021–2025 · $52k · revenue +49%- FFFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +18%
- DBDC BAR PRO BONO CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- FMFRESHFARM MARKETSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +114%
ChangeLab Solutionsone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -39%
NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INCone grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue -93%
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.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
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…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Advocate for community-owned natural gas distribution systems, promoting safety, security, competitiveness, and sustainability of the direct use of natural gas.
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Democracy Forward Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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 39 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) — 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 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.
27 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. 27 of the 28 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 CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FRESHFARM MARKETS ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ChangeLab Solutions ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ActionAids Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SHENANDOAH RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Potomac Appalachian Trail Club ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISH OF CLARKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Pension Rights Center ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART MAGIC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BARNS OF ROSE HILL ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
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 · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sollee 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.