· Private foundation
The Wollenberg 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 $10k34 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $490k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REED COLLEGE | $450,000 |
| OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY | $210,000 |
| FILOLI HISTORIC HOUSE & GARDEN | $151,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $125,000 |
| COLUMBIA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $125,000 |
| WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| OREGON ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | $100,000 |
| LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE HEAD START | $88,500 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY GSB | $75,000 |
| INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON | $75,000 |
| UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION | $60,000 |
| STANFORD LIVE - LITTLEFIELD CENTER | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY | $50,000 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIV FNDN INC | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $50,000 |
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, $880k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 30 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- ICINDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +70%
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY6× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +29%- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SW WASHINGTONone grant, 2017 · $115k
- CHCommunity Home Health & Hospiceone grant, 2017 · $103k · revenue -100%
Oregon State University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +42%
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.
Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
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…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities and the most unlike its peers is Wolf Pack Support Services. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 131 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 REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Peninsula ↗
- Who funds Youth and Family Link ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE YMCA OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Community Home Health & Hospice ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Health Care Foundation · United Way of Cowlitz County · John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Nippon Dynawave Foundation · Evans-Kelly Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Seattle Foundation
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 Wollenberg 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- World Forestry Center — 0% of income from government
- Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 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.