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The Willowmere 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.

$325k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Environment$253kHuman Services$221kFood & Nutrition$112kAnimals$107kHealth$34kInternational$30kRecreation & Sports$23kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$6,667
Median grant
11
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS$50,000
SURVIVAL CENTERS INC$50,000
SEEDMONEY$25,000
SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION$15,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC$10,000
THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE$10,000
THE DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDRENS CENTER INC$10,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$10,000
PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY$10,000
URBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS$8,000
MY SISTERS HOUSE INC$8,000
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC$7,500
WELLINGTON CARES INC$7,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA INC$7,500
02The need
03

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 (FY22–25, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEADS INC: $10k → 11%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $50k → 17%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $50k → 14%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $5k → 12%WELLINGTON CARES INC: $8k → 11%INCREASING H O P E: $6k → 12%WELLINGTON CARES INC: $3k → 11%MY SISTERS HOUSE INC: $8k → 12%MY SISTERS HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
VT
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$235k · 15 repeat orgs$612k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
25

Total granted

$235k
$360k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

93%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionInternationalHealthOther
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

  • MS
    My Sister's House Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +70%
  • FT
    FIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON
    3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +192%
  • RW
    ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • PB
    PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +11%
  • CI
    COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -28%
  • OO
    OCEAN OUTCOMES
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.

1
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
2
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
6
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
7
North Carolina Conservation Network

The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.

Environment
8
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
9
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
10
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
11
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
12
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Journey Home Animal Center. 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

56 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. 56 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
25/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Partnership With Native Americans: $50,000 · Human ServicesPartnership With Native Ame…PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INCSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSURVIVAL CENTERS INCMy Sister's House Inc: $18,000 · Human ServicesMy Sister's House IncWELLINGTON CARES INC dba Our Community Cares: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INC: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $21,000 · Human Services+4 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLE…MASSACHUSETTS BIRD OF PREY REHABILITATION FACILITY: $15,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS BIRD OF PREY REHABI…SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $11,000 · OtherDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $9,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $11,000 · OtherLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE: $10,000 · OtherFIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON: $11,500 · OtherLEAF GLOBAL ARTS: $10,000 · OtherJack The Bike Man Inc: $10,000 · Other+14 more: $68,833 · Other+14 moreOCEAN OUTCOMES: $50,000 · AnimalsOCEAN OUTCOMESTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $25,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK…PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $25,000 · AnimalsPERFORMING ANIMAL W…ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $11,500 · AnimalsROCKFISH WILDLIFE S…THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTU…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGIC…SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsJourney Home Animal Center: $5,000 · Animals+3 more: $5,500 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY…FEED MORE INC: $8,334 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE…URBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS UCAN: $8,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN COM…EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $6,667 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY…ONE TREE PLANTED INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyONE TREE …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC: $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBAL WATER CENTER: $5,000 · InternationalSEEDMONEY: $25,000 · EnvironmentTAMARACK HOLLOW NATURE & CULTURAL CENTER: $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE JAMES RIVER PARK: $6,666 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $5,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR NATURAL LANDS MANAGEMENT: $5,000 · Environment
Human Services$209,000Other$256,333Animals$147,000Food & Nutrition$73,001Philanthropy$70,000International$60,000Environment$51,666

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOCEAN OUTCOMES: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEEDMONEY: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON: $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $11,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJack The Bike Man Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTAMARACK HOLLOW NATURE & CULTURAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLEAF GLOBAL ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWELLINGTON CARES INC dba Our Community Cares: $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetNEADS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $8,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS UCAN: $8,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $6,667 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $6,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE JAMES RIVER PARK: $6,666 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTURN90: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIncreasing HOPE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJourney Home Animal Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL WATER CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR NATURAL LANDS MANAGEMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMatch Point Impact Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetForget Me Not Childrens Services: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetX-PORT PAWS INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC: $3,333 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVENTURE RICHMOND INC: $3,333 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Dominion Energy Chari…Coastal Community Fou…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…The Joanna FoundationCaplin FoundationCharlottesville Area …Carmax FoundationCentral Carolina Comm…Triangle Community Fo…William M Camp Founda…Trident United WayThe Oak Hill Fund
Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA22.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · William M Camp Foundation · Trident United Way · The Oak Hill 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 Willowmere Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Willowmere Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Tamarack Hollow Nature & Cultural Center: 9% of income from government
  • Survival Centers Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jack the Bike Man Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to The Willowmere Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Willowmere Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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