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Washakie Foundation

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.

$458k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
39
Grants FY2025
56
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 56
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$6.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Washakie Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving38$458k16%
FY202456$367k11%
FY202346$354k22%
FY202244$432k14%
FY202135$338k17%
FY202027$338k7%
FY201937$323k19%
FY201838$292k29%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.2MArts & Culture$385kFood & Nutrition$360kYouth Development$160kHuman Services$158kAnimals$130kEducation$84kScience & Tech$59kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
WY
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 82 grantees
All grantees of Washakie Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sequoia Forestkeeper$493,000674%
Sierra Streams Institute$476,500912%
Sierra Harvest$320,000813%
Nevada City Community Broadcast Group$281,50094%
Point Reyes Bird Observatory$159,50080%
Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming$90,00090%
Casper Family YMCA INC$87,50091%
Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Wyoming Inc$87,50091%
National Outdoor Leadership School$70,00090%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$65,00090%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$65,00090%
The Innocence Project Inc$50,00090%
Denver Rescue Mission$44,00090%
High Country News$34,00060%
Nevada Theatre Commission$30,000212%
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc$28,50080%
Indiana University Foundation$28,00090%
Refugee Home Project Inc$26,00024%
Quivira Coalition Inc$25,00050%
Folds of Honor Foundation$23,50080%
The Charles Armstrong School$22,00070%
Ludwig Von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics Inc$20,50080%
Riekes Center for Human Enhancement$19,50060%
Democracy Now Productions Inc$18,00070%
Greater Yellowstone Coalition$17,50060%
Work to Ride Inc$17,50050%
Urban Tilth$17,50040%
Capitol Hill Community Services$17,50091%
The Pacifica Foundation$15,50060%
American Battlefield Trust$15,50070%
Angel Flight West Inc$15,00030%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$15,00010%
California Planned Parenthood Education Fund Inc$15,00030%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$15,00050%
National Public Radio Inc$13,00060%
League to Save Lake Tahoe$12,50030%
Wind River Cultural Centers Foundation$12,500212%
Lifemoves$12,50040%
The Grand Canyon Trust Inc$12,50030%
Pen American Center Inc$12,50030%
Freedom of the Press Foundation$12,50030%
Samaritan House$12,50030%
Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation Inc$10,50071%
The Carter Center Inc$10,50050%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$10,40080%
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc$10,00010%
Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc$10,00030%
Kqed Inc$10,00040%
Earthjustice$10,00020%
Naturebridge$10,00030%
Pro Publica Inc$9,00040%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$7,50020%
First Look Institute Inc$7,50030%
National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy$6,50020%
Land Preservation Trust Inc$5,00020%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Virginia$5,00020%
Yosemite Foundation$5,00020%
American Rivers Inc$5,00010%
Defenders of Wildlife$5,00010%
American Society for the Royal Academy of Music$5,0001n/a
Georgetown University$5,00010%
Streetsquash Inc$4,50020%
Building for the Arts Ny Inc$4,50020%
Friends of the River Foundation$4,00020%
New York Public Radio$4,00040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$4,00020%
Delancey Street California$3,75020%
Labyrinth Inc Labyrinth Theatre Company$2,50011%
The Scripps Research Institute$2,50010%
Museum of the American West$2,5001n/a
Human Rights Watch Inc$2,50010%
CHOICE Education Foundation$2,5001n/a
Bowery Residents Committee Inc$2,50010%
Institute for Free Speech$2,50010%
Sierra Watch$2,50011%
Wildearth Guardians$2,50010%
Auroville International USA$2,50012%
Center for Humane Technology$2,00010%
Companeros Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center$1,50010%
Mozilla Foundation$1,50030%
Friends of Boroume Inc$1,5001n/a
Sundance Horse Rescue Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Washakie Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSequoia Forestkeeper: $493,000 over 6y, 74% of budgetSierra Streams Institute: $476,500 over 9y, 12% of budgetSierra Harvest: $320,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetNevada City Community Broadcast Group: $281,500 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetPoint Reyes Bird Observatory: $159,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming: $90,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCasper Family YMCA INC: $87,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Southeast Wyoming Inc: $87,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNational Outdoor Leadership School: $70,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $65,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $50,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $44,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Country News: $34,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNevada Theatre Commission: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCommittee to Protect Journalists Inc: $28,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $28,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee Home Project Inc: $26,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetQuivira Coalition Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $23,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charles Armstrong School: $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLudwig Von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics Inc: $20,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRiekes Center for Human Enhancement: $19,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDemocracy Now Productions Inc: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Yellowstone Coalition: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWork to Ride Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Tilth: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCapitol Hill Community Services: $17,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetThe Pacifica Foundation: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Flight West Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Planned Parenthood Education Fund Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLeague to Save Lake Tahoe: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWind River Cultural Centers Foundation: $12,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetLifemoves: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Grand Canyon Trust Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPen American Center Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom of the Press Foundation: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan House: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWoodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $10,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoul Fire Farm Institute Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKqed Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 77.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA18.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Bear Gulch Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Ford Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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.

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About Washakie Foundation

How much does Washakie Foundation give?
Washakie Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $457,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Washakie Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (43%), Arts & Culture (14%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are Washakie Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sequoia Forestkeeper ($493k), Sierra Streams Institute ($477k), Sierra Harvest ($320k).
Does Washakie Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Washakie Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Washakie Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Patagoniaorg.
Where is Washakie Foundation based?
Washakie Foundation is based in DE.

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 92 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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