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Wayne and Jo Ann English Family Foundation at a glance

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Wayne and Jo Ann English Family 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.

$500
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$57kEducation$26kArts & Culture$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$335k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCE$500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAZADERO MUSIC CAMP: $2k → 10%TULEYOME: $8k → 16%WORLD PARKINSON COALITION: $2k → 17%OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $3k → 13%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 18%WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST: $10k → 7%SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCE: $500 → 9%SEADOC SOCIETY: $10k → 10%YOLO FOOD BANK: $3k → 16%WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST: $8k → 7%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLS: $600 → 9%SEADOC SOCIETY: $8k → 10%PAMELA TROKANSKI DANCE THEATER: $2k → 16%WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST: $5k → 7%SEADOC SOCIETY: $8k → 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.
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 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
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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2
Washington State Academy of Sciences

WSAS provides expert scientific and engineering assessments to inform public policy making and works to increase the impact of research in Washington State.

Science & Tech
3
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
4
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
University of Western States

The mission of the University of Western States is to advance the science and art of integrated health care through excellence in education and patient care.

Health
7
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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8
The University of British Columbia

Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.

Education
9
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
10
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
11
The Salish Sea School

The salish sea schools mission is to awaken curiosity and deepen connections with the sea through shore and sea exploration programs for all ages.

Environment
12
Pacific Coast University School of Law

With its long history of education, affordable tuition, flexible schedule, and small class sizes, pacific coast university school of law is the perfect law school choice for working professionals who seek a law degree program.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences; the most unlike its peers is The Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEADOC SOCIETY: $25,730 · OtherSEADOC SOCIETYAPOYOLO: $5,000 · OtherAPOYOLOIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST: $23,000 · EnvironmentWHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUSTTULEYOME: $8,000 · EnvironmentTULEYOMEOregon State University Foundation: $25,000 · EducationOregon State University Found…+2 more: $1,100 · EducationOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PAMELA TROKANSKI DANCE THEATRE: $2,000 · Arts & CultureYOLO FOOD BANK: $3,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD PARKINSON COALITION INC: $1,500 · Health
Other$32,730Environment$31,000Education$26,100Arts & Culture$5,000Food & Nutrition$3,000Health$1,500

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 budgetOregon State University Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST: $23,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTULEYOME: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOLO FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAMELA TROKANSKI DANCE THEATRE: $2,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetWORLD PARKINSON COALITION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 31% of budgetUNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $500 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Wayne and Jo Ann English Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne and Jo Ann English Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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How do I get to Wayne and Jo Ann English Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wayne and Jo Ann English Family Foundation 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 12 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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