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Theophilus Foundation Co Martha Jean Weaver at a glance

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Theophilus Foundation Co Martha Jean Weaver

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.

$467k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$954kReligion$517kInternational$256kAnimals$141kFood & Nutrition$75kCivil Rights$60kArts & Culture$40kHealth$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $370k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL VILLAGE INSTITUTE$75,000
FOUNDATION UN CURSO DE AMOR$40,000
GEOVERSITY$40,000
WILD FOUNDATION$22,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$22,000
SEA TURTLE CONSERVANCY$21,000
BEAR YUBA LAND TRUST$20,000
TAKE HEART PUBLICATIONS$20,000
SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE$20,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$20,000
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET$20,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$20,000
BEAR YUBA LAND TRUST$15,000
CORNICON INSTITUTE$15,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$15,000
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.

US giving: 88% of grant dollars ($2.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($300k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LYME LIGHT FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%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

MT
WI
NY
MA
WY
IA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($300k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Argentina$290k · 6 grants
Germany$10k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 25 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -35% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

$2.2M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-35%

Still filing today

72%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentReligionInternationalEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +181%
  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $147k · revenue +12%
  • RT
    RAINFOREST TRUST
    6× · 2020–2025 · $142k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • AN
    A NEW REPUBLIC OF THE HEART
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • CM
    COLOR ME HUMAN
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • MF
    MEDIATORS FOUNDATION WISDOM BEYOND BORDERS
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
NatureServe

NatureServe's mission is to leverage the power of science, data, and technology to guide biodiversity conservation and stewardship. We activate our mission by working with a network of 60+ partners located in states and provinces across…

Environment
3
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
4
The Nature Conservancy

The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.

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5
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

Environment
6
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

Environment
7
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

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

Animals
8
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
9
Wildaid Inc

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

Animals
10
Climate Change Truth research

Present Netzeroco2 manuscript at climate change conferences and lead a 35 PhD team to debunk climate change garbage of the iPCC

Science & Tech
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

28 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. 28 of the 49 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION UN CURSO DE AMOR: $290,000 · OtherFOUNDATION UN CURSO DE AMORGEOVERSITY: $220,000 · OtherGEOVERSITYSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE: $160,000 · OtherSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUEINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $147,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCGLOBAL VILLAGE INSTITUTE FOR THE POCKET PROJECT: $135,000 · OtherGLOBAL VILLAGE INSTITUTE FOR THE POCKET PROJECTGLOBAL VILLAGE INSTITUTE: $95,000 · OtherGLOBAL VILLAGE INSTITUTE+22 more: $272,348 · Other+22 moreBear Yuba Land Trust: $230,000 · EnvironmentBear Yuba Land Tru…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $85,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES …SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDA…+3 more: $5,200 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST TRUST: $142,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUSTSea Turtle Conservancy: $141,000 · InternationalSea Turtle Conse…INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $80,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CA…+1 more: $1,100 · InternationalTake Heart Publications: $95,000 · ReligionTake Hear…ONE MIND FOUNDATION: $80,600 · ReligionONE MIND …SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN…+2 more: $6,500 · ReligionNutritionfactsorg Inc: $45,000 · Food & NutritionSIERRA HARVEST: $30,000 · Food & NutritionCOLOR ME HUMAN: $30,100 · EducationNEVADA CITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $20,000 · EducationCELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE INC: $5,000 · EducationCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $29,900 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,319,348Environment$400,200International$364,100Religion$207,100Food & Nutrition$75,000Education$55,100Arts & Culture$29,900

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 budgetBear Yuba Land Trust: $230,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE: $160,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $147,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $142,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSea Turtle Conservancy: $141,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTake Heart Publications: $95,000 over 6y, 46% of budgetGLOBAL VILLAGE INSTITUTE: $95,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONE MIND FOUNDATION: $80,600 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSIERRA HARVEST: $30,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $29,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA CITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTEGRAL CHRISTIAN NETWORK: $1,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds Bear Yuba Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds Take Heart Publications ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL VILLAGE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE MIND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Nutritionfactsorg Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLOR ME HUMAN ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA CITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds LymeLight Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF OPEN HEARTS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE 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.

Baird Foundation IncPaypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baird Foundation IncWI10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Theophilus Foundation Co Martha Jean Weaver funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theophilus Foundation Co Martha Jean Weaver. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report 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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Find your warmest path to Theophilus Foundation Co Martha Jean Weaver 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 49 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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