· Private foundation
The Waitte 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 $10k14 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Creativity Explored | $15,000 |
| Ole Health Foundation | $14,778 |
| St Helena Hospital Foundation | $10,000 |
| Bill Wilson Center | $10,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Giant Steps | $5,000 |
| ShelterBox USA | $5,000 |
| PlayWrite Inc | $4,500 |
| Fostering Promise | $4,000 |
| Children's Health Initiative of Nap | $4,000 |
| West Valley College Foundation | $2,500 |
| Napa Humane | $2,500 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $2,500 |
| Vashon Youth and Family Svcs | $2,500 |
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, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% 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 +38% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- CECREATIVITY EXPLORED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +42%
- SHSt Helena Hospital Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +38%
- GSGiant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BGBoys Girls Clubs of Americaone grant, 2017 · $10k
- WWORLDREADERORGone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -42%
- JHJackson Hospital Foundation Incone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -15%
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.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Pets Lifeline is dedicated to protecting and improving the lives of cats and dogs in need in Sonoma Valley through sheltering and adoption, humane education, and community programs.
The mission of pets in need is to provide animals with loving care and lasting homes, to partner with communities striving to do the same, and to advance our no-kill legacy.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
SafeQuest Solano is dedicated to providing prevention education, advo cacy, and intervention services to those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault.
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
For more than 132 years, the sacramento spca has worked to reduce pet overpopulation through affordable spay/neuter services, promote humane treatment of animals through education and outreach, and keep pets and their families together for…
The mission of the placer society for the prevention of cruelty to animals (placer spca) is to enhance the lives of companion animals and support the human-animal bond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fostering Promise. 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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 47 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 CREATIVITY EXPLORED INC ↗
- Who funds St Helena Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PlayWrite Inc ↗
- Who funds BILL WILSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEHOPE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDREADERORG ↗
- Who funds Jackson Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING PROMISE ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE DINNER PARTY LABS CO NPOC SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Napa County & SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds LOVELEO RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Waitte 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.
- PlayWrite Inc — 3% 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.