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The Wpw Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$275k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$820kHuman Services$422kHealth$261kHousing & Shelter$187kPhilanthropy$115kFood & Nutrition$110kReligion$98kYouth Development$84kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $195k
$8,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Pauls School$20,000
Arch Bishop Borders School$15,000
Cardinal Shehan School$10,000
ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
Mother Mary Lange Catholic School$10,000
Southern Methodist University$10,000
TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY$10,000
CIVICORPS$10,000
FEEDING AMERICA$10,000
CONTRA COSTA CRISIS CTR$10,000
Catholic Charities of Baltimore$10,000
HOUSING CALIFORNIA$10,000
Institute for Exceptional Care$10,000
Atlanta Community Food Bank$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $20k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $15k → 12%CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 15%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $10k → 12%EVERAS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 5%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $10k → 12%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 10%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 10%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%HOUSE OF RUTH - MARYLAND: $3k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH - MARYLAND: $3k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH - MARYLAND: $3k → 19%CITY SERVE OF THE TRI VALLEY: $5k → 10%CITY SERVE OF THE TRI VALLEY: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $60k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $48k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $44k → 19%Catholic Charities of Baltimore: $10k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $10k → 19%Catholic Charities of Baltimore: $10k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $10k → 19%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

IL
NY
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Wpw Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Wpw Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 56 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
21

Total granted

$2.3M
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+25%

Still filing today

61%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • AC
    ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $192k · revenue +23%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +9%
  • NO
    NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +302%

Funded once

  • BRIDGE TO TURKIYE
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -76%
  • NC
    NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • EC
    Everas Community Services Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +69%
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
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
5
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
6
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
7
Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health
8
Inner City Law Center

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.

Crime & Legal
9
Npr Foundation

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…

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10
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

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…

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11
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
12
Inova Health System Foundation

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
34/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARYVALE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $175,000 · OtherMARYVALE PREPARATORY SCHOOLARCHBISHOP BORDERS SCHOOL INC: $93,500 · OtherARCHBISHOP BORDERS SCHOOL INCTHE ST PAULS SCHOOLS INC: $92,500 · OtherTHE ST PAULS SCHOOLS INCIndividual grant recipient: $77,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE: $76,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORETHE ARC OF MONMOUTH INC: $67,000 · OtherIMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL: $60,000 · Other+45 more: $736,750 · Other+45 moreASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $192,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CATH…Alameda Family Services Inc: $65,000 · Human ServicesAlameda Family …HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING CALIFOR…+4 more: $31,000 · Human Services+4 moreCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $93,500 · EducationCONNECTICUT…ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $53,500 · EducationENOCH PRATT…Fordham University: $32,500 · EducationFordham Uni…Southern Methodist University: $30,000 · EducationSouthern Me…MIDLAND FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationMIDLAND FOU…PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationCONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER: $75,000 · HealthGBMC FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · HealthInstitute for Exceptional Care: $17,500 · Health+3 more: $8,500 · HealthNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $84,000 · Youth DevelopmentCIVICORPS: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY PROMISE INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterShepherds Gate: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,378,250Human Services$343,000Education$246,500Health$171,000Youth Development$154,000Philanthropy$110,000Housing & Shelter$92,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $192,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $93,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $84,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER: $75,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCIVICORPS: $70,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF MONMOUTH INC: $67,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAlameda Family Services Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $53,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetShepherds Gate: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTime For Change Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust: $28,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSylvia Rivera Law Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetInstitute for Exceptional Care: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE TO TURKIYE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTri-Valley Animal Rescue: $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMIDLAND FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON EVANGELISM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPaws In Need: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEveras Community Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLava Mae: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY SERVE OF THE TRI-VALLEY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetValley Humane SocietyInc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE: $8,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMERSON ROSE HEART FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMOSS CREEK MARINES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetANDERSON FREE CLINIC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR CUPBOARD: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 Shepherds Gate ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

East Bay Community Fo…Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …Abney FoundationDean and Margaret Les…The Marion I & Henry …Fund for Educational …France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…The San Francisco Fou…The Intuit FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…
East Bay Community FoundationCA17.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wpw Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wpw Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 82 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$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