· Private foundation
Weatherlow Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $236k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $36,000 |
| OUR SISTERS SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| Rhode Island Foundation | $20,000 |
| Corporation for Public Broadcasting | $20,000 |
| National Resource Defense Council | $20,000 |
| WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST | $20,000 |
| Lake George Association | $16,500 |
| Ecological Research & Development Group | $15,000 |
| The Livestock Institute of Southern New England | $14,317 |
| RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO | $13,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy of Rhode Island | $11,000 |
| Audubon Society of Rhode Island | $10,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OSOUR SISTERS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +52%
- WLWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +3%
WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY8× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +647%
Funded once
- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCYone grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue -12%
- TLThe Livestock Institute of Southern NEone grant, 2019 · $25k
- AHAMOS HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +187%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Farm Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 107 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Lake George Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Chiaravalle Montessori School ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Little Compton Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FOREVER PAWS ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVESTOCK INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAKONNET LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Gpb Foundation · Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · Mutual of America Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Island Foundation Inc · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Weatherlow Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.