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Warsh-Mott Legacy

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2022
25
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

56% of Warsh-Mott Legacy’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Tides Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 34 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Warsh-Mott Legacy named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

31
’17
30
’18
17
’19
19
’20
13
’21
20
’22
35
’23
35
’24
34
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Philanthropy$6.3MCivil Rights$2.7MEnvironment$2.6MPublic Benefit$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.2MInternational$677kCommunity Improvement$521kEducation$415kOther$0
02FY2022 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $576k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $580k
$45,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT$100,000
DEFENDING RIGHTS & DISSENT$70,000
GLOBAL EXCHANGE$70,000
CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY$60,000
INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$60,000
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW$60,000
SIERRA CLUB$60,000
WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC$50,000
THE XERCES SOCIETY$50,000
NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE FUND INC$45,000
CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER$45,000
PROTEUS FUND INC$45,000
AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW AND POLICY$45,000
INQUIRING SYSTEMS$42,800
FRIENDS OF THE ACTION GROUP ON EROSION TECHNOLOGY AND CONCENTRATION$41,820
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 (FY20–25, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOLIDARITY STL INC: $15k → 21%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $40k → 9%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $50k → 14%ILLINOIS WORKERS IN ACTION: $20k → 7%ILLINOIS WORKERS IN ACTION: $20k → 8%SOLIDARITY STL INC: $15k → 21%ILLINOIS WORKERS IN ACTION: $20k → 7%SOLIDARITY STL INC: $15k → 21%INSTITUTO LAB: $10k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $45k → 10%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

AK
VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 31% of Warsh-Mott Legacy’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Warsh-Mott Legacylessmore 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 70 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

70 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2022, 50 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
29

Total granted

$9.5M
$994k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+98%

Still filing today

89%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750k 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
Civil RightsFood & NutritionEnvironmentInternationalCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FO
    Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration
    5× · 2018–2022 · $755k · revenue +545% · 53% of their budget
  • GA
    Government Accountability Project
    7× · 2017–2023 · $600k · revenue +49%
  • PC
    PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $465k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PC
    PUBLIC CITIZEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +167%
  • PO
    PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
  • EA
    Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula
    one grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue -17%
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
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
4
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
7
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
8
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
9
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
10
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
11
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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12
Corporate Accountability Lab

The Organization unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow; the most unlike its peers is The Ceres Trust. 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

98 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. 98 of the 122 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/98
Grantees still filing
59/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES FOUNDATION: $4,814,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $868,800 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+2 more: $90,000 · PhilanthropyMARIN FOUNDATION: $375,000 · OtherMARIN FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $241,000 · OtherAPOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC (ALECI): $180,000 · OtherWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $350,000 · OtherWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUST…AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $225,000 · OtherNATIVE MOVEMENT: $240,000 · OtherXERCES SOCIETY INC: $180,000 · OtherCONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER: $225,000 · Other+60 more: $3,159,100 · Other+60 moreFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration: $755,040 · Food & NutritionFriends of…INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY: $280,000 · Food & NutritionINSTITUTE …Center for Food Safety: $250,000 · Food & NutritionCenter for…Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula: $65,000 · Food & NutritionCOMEDORES SOCIALES DE PUERTO RICO INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionPARCELERAS AFROCARIBENAS POR LA TRANSFORM BARRIAL: $60,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $90,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $460,000 · Civil RightsPARTNERSHIPFORCIVILJUSTICEFUND: $250,000 · Civil RightsDEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC: $175,000 · Civil RightsThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $132,500 · Civil RightsCULTURAL SURVIVAL INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsSOMOS SIEMBRA: $50,000 · Civil Rights+6 more: $180,000 · Civil RightsGovernment Accountability Project: $600,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $465,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $125,000 · Public BenefitPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $80,000 · Public BenefitFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $60,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $25,000 · Public BenefitGLOBAL EXCHANGE: $365,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC: $300,000 · InternationalNATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE FUND INC: $170,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC: $120,000 · InternationalSOUTH AFRICA DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $82,400 · InternationalFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $75,000 · InternationalAlianza Americas: $60,000 · International+2 more: $22,500 · InternationalSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $330,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $140,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $115,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $70,000 · EnvironmentKAHEA THE HAWAIIAN ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $60,000 · EnvironmentAINA MOMONA: $60,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUND: $60,000 · EnvironmentPesticide Action Network North America: $50,000 · Environment+3 more: $75,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$5,773,300Other$5,175,100Food & Nutrition$1,560,040Civil Rights$1,357,500Public Benefit$1,355,000International$1,194,900Environment$1,040,000

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 budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $4,814,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $868,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration: $755,040 over 5y, 53% of budgetGovernment Accountability Project: $600,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $465,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $460,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBAL EXCHANGE: $365,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $350,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC: $300,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY: $280,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIPFORCIVILJUSTICEFUND: $250,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetCenter for Food Safety: $250,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $240,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER: $225,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $225,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $180,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC: $175,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetNATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE FUND INC: $170,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $140,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $140,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $132,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFREE PRESS: $132,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $125,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC: $120,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetILLUMINATIVE INC: $115,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $85,600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH AFRICA DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $82,400 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $80,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAS YOU SOW: $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEcology Action of the Midpeninsula: $65,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCOMEDORES SOCIALES DE PUERTO RICO INC: $60,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetILLINIOS WORKERS IN ACTION: $60,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMIIGWECH INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $60,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHAWAII PEACE AND JUSTICE: $60,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetCULTURAL SURVIVAL INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKAHEA THE HAWAIIAN ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAINA MOMONA: $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAlianza Americas: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% 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.

Cs FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationNew Venture FundFoundation to Promote…Rsf Social Finance IncThe Schmidt Family Fo…Common Counsel Founda…ImpactassetsincWindward FundWallace Global Fund IIRockefeller Philanthr…
Cs FundCA76.3× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cs Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Windward Fund · Wallace Global Fund II · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

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 Warsh-Mott Legacy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warsh-Mott Legacy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Code for Science & Society Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Warsh-Mott Legacy?

Find your warmest path to Warsh-Mott Legacy 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 122 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home