· Private foundation
The Willits Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $315
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $175,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach | $169,000 |
| Gill St Bernard's School | $163,000 |
| Presbyterian Church USA | $135,000 |
| Center For Creative Education | $127,000 |
| Sweet Briar College | $110,000 |
| The Lord's Place | $109,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $100,000 |
| Hanley Center Foundation | $80,000 |
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation | $80,000 |
| Cathedral Arts Project Inc | $75,000 |
| Children's Specialized Hospital | $50,000 |
| Scholarship America | $315 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 81% of your 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TGTHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $992k · revenue +12%
- CFCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION7× · 2019–2025 · $600k · revenue +276%
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE6× · 2020–2025 · $596k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MAMD Anderson Cancer Centerone grant, 2024 · $140k
- CCCleveland Clinic Foundation fbo Indian River County Medical Centerone grant, 2022 · $88k
- MWMrs Wilson's Halfway Houseone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanley Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Siena University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 31 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 THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALFRE INC DBA MRS WILSONS HALFWAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
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.
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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 Willits Foundation Inc 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.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc — 10% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc — 1% 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.
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