· Private foundation
The Wpw Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Pauls School | $20,000 |
| Arch Bishop Borders School | $15,000 |
| SHARE THE SPIRIT FUND | $10,000 |
| Next One Up Foundation | $10,000 |
| Atlanta Community Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Catholic Charities of Baltimore | $10,000 |
| TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| Institute for Exceptional Care | $10,000 |
| ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| Cardinal Shehan School | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HOUSING CALIFORNIA | $10,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $10,000 |
| Mother Mary Lange Catholic School | $10,000 |
| CIVICORPS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Wpw Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- ACASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $192k · revenue +23%
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +9%
- NONEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +302%
Funded once
BRIDGE TO TURKIYEone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -76%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +18%- LMLava Maeone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -99%
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lava Mae. 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 39 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 82 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 ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CIVICORPS ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF MONMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Alameda Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Gate ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Time For Change Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Sylvia Rivera Law Project Inc ↗
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: East Bay Community Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Abney Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Wpw 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Everas Community Services Inc — 6% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 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.