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.

Washakie Foundation

Washakie Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k25 grants · $88k
$10k–50k12 grants · $220k
$50k–250k2 grants · $150k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
COMMUNITY ROOTS SCHOOL FOOD SERVICES AGENCY	$100,000
NEVADA CITY COMMUNITY BROADCAST GROUP	$50,000
SIERRA STREAMS INSTITUTE	$39,000
POINT BLUE CONSERVATION SCIENCE	$36,000
NEVADA CITY COMMUNITY BROADCAST GROUP	$25,000
NEVADA THEATRE COMMISSION	$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHEYENNE WYOMING INC	$15,000
CASPER FAMILY YMCA	$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL WYOMING	$15,000
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL	$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION IN	$10,000
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION INC	$10,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC	$10,000
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC	$10,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

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.

$3.0M · 65 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+10%

Still filing today

94%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

SS
Sierra Streams Institute
9× · 2017–2025 · $477k · revenue +167%
SH
SIERRA HARVEST
8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +10%
NC
NEVADA CITY COMMUNITY BROADCAST GROUP
9× · 2017–2025 · $282k · revenue +59%

Funded once

GW
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +26%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $10k
AMERICAN RIVERS INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +131%

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.

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

National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports

The Jmt Wilderness Conservancy

Working to restore the watersheds, wilderness, and wildlife in the high sierra nevada following the john muir trail (est. 1915) for all life in california.

Environment

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

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

Animals

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture

Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit

CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Refugee Home Project Inc. 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

85 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. 85 of the 92 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

82/85

Grantees still filing

58/85

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$1,251,000Arts & Culture$438,500Other$709,750Food & Nutrition$347,500Human Services$213,000Animals$165,500Education$90,400

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Washakie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washakie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$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