How much does The Willow Pond Foundation give?

The Willow Pond Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $3,450 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does The Willow Pond Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (29%), Philanthropy (18%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are The Willow Pond Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: River Region United Way ($31k), Ludwig Von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics Inc ($15k), The Montgomery Academy ($8k).

Does The Willow Pond Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Willow Pond Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Willow Pond Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation.

Where is The Willow Pond Foundation based?

The Willow Pond Foundation is based in AL.

The Willow Pond Foundation

The Willow Pond Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Willow Pond Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$2k

Largest

01What it funds

0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$50kPhilanthropy$31kArts & Culture$19kSocial Science$18kReligion$9kRecreation & Sports$4kPublic Benefit$4kHealth$4kOther$0

02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$296k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATIONAL OPEN SHOOTING DOG CHAMPIONSHIP	$1,500
MERCATUS CENTER	$500
RAPHAH MINISTRIES	$500
AMERICAN PRINICPLES PROJECT	$500
BRUNDIDGE ROTARY CLUB	$300
MAYO CLINIC	$150

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$145k · 30 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 28 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$145k

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+37%

Still filing today

60%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

LV
LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +294%
TM
THE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY
7× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +27%
CS
CONECUH SPRINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
2× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +7%

Funded once

ER
ELLA RICHARDSON FINE ART
one grant, 2025 · $8k
FU
FAULKNER UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +45%
AS
ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -17%

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.

04Its 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.

Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education

Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.

Education

University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education

National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education

University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Aider Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 65 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

24/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$101,017Philanthropy$31,100Education$19,300Food & Nutrition$8,175Arts & Culture$7,350Public Benefit$3,800Social Science$3,500

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

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.

Arthur M Britton Foundation IncAL28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · We3 Fund · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · B Stephen Schloss Foundation · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · The Landa Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Willow Pond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Willow Pond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home