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The Weatherup Family Foundation at a glance

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The Weatherup 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.

$415k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.1MEducation$376kEnvironment$268kHealth$156kReligion$126kArts & Culture$100kHousing & Shelter$50kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $277,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $414,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $137,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pendragon Theatre$50,000
Adirondack Housing Development Corporation$50,000
Paul Smith's College$50,000
Adirondack Land Trust$25,000
Charitable Gift America$25,000
The University of California, San Francisco$20,000
Adirondack Health Foundation$10,000
Adirondack Foundation$10,000
Kimball Union Academy$10,000
Adirondack Council$5,000
Adirondack Mountain Club$5,000
Adirondack North Country Association$5,000
Ecumenical Council of Saranac Lake, Inc$5,000
Veterinary Care Foundation, Inc.$5,000
F3 Women Empowerment$1,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$605k · 10 repeat orgs$578k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
20

Total granted

$605k
$446k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+51%

Still filing today

90%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHealthReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PS
    PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $235k · revenue +14%
  • AL
    ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +82%
  • CG
    CHARITABLE GIFT AMERICA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +720%

Funded once

  • NC
    Nature Conservancy Adirondack Chapter
    one grant, 2020 · $110k
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +51%
  • PT
    PENDRAGON THEATRE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ausable Freshwater Center Incorporated

Advancing science and stewardship of adirondack waters.

Environment
2
Adirondack Economic Development Corp

To foster and support the growth of sustainable North Country communities through providing assistance to aspiring entrepreneurs and existing small business owners.

Community Improvement
3
Adirondack Community College Foundation

Guided by suny adirondack's strategic plan, the suny adirondack foundation actively and collaboratively raises and manages the necessary funds to help the college meet the evolving needs of its students and community.

Education
4
Protect the Adirondacks Inc

Protect is a grassroots, membership organization dedicated to the protection, stewardship and sustainability of the natural environment and human communities of the adirondack park and the new york state forest preserve for current and…

Environment
5
Adirondack Medical Center Foundation

To support and assist adirondack medical center, an exempt healthcare organization.

Philanthropy
6
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment
7
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
8
Adirondack Regional Chambers of Commerce Inc

To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.

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9
Adirondack League Club

To manage the preservation and conservation of an approximate 50,000 acre preserve.

Recreation & Sports
10
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.

Environment
11
Adk Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Adirondack Architectural Heritage Inc

To promote better public understanding, appreciation and stewardship of the adirondack's unique and diverse architectural heritage.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ecumenical Council of Saranac Lake Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $1,070,000 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK FOUNDATIONNature Conservancy Adirondack Chapter: $110,000 · OtherNature Conservancy Adirond…Adirondack Health Foundation: $110,000 · OtherAdirondack Health Foundati…PENDRAGON THEATRE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $50,000 · OtherPENDRAGON THEATRE CAPITAL …Pendragon Theatre: $50,000 · OtherPendragon TheatreWorld Gospel Mission: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ANGLICAN PILGRIM CENTRE: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $25,000 · Other+17 more: $115,000 · Other+17 morePAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $235,000 · EducationPAUL SMITHS COLLEGEARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSI…CHARITABLE GIFT AMERICA INC: $50,000 · EducationCHARITABLE GIFT AMERIC…KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $12,500 · EducationADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $55,000 · EnvironmentTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentADIRONDACK HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $35,000 · ReligionNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$1,070,000Other$530,000Education$437,500Environment$100,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Religion$35,000Arts & Culture$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $1,070,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $235,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetADIRONDACK HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetCHARITABLE GIFT AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetADIRONDACK NORTH COUNTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cloudsplitter Foundat…Adirondack FoundationJM McDonald Foundatio…The Vermont Community…Renaissance Charitabl…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Cloudsplitter FoundationNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cloudsplitter Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $621k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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