How much does Weatherlow Foundation give?

Weatherlow Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $327,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Weatherlow Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Education (18%), Animals (18%).

Who are Weatherlow Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Our Sisters School ($270k), Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc ($158k), Ecological Research & Development Group Inc ($109k).

Does Weatherlow Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Weatherlow 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 Weatherlow Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Amica Companies Foundation, Gpb Foundation.

Where is Weatherlow Foundation based?

Weatherlow Foundation is based in NH.

Weatherlow Foundation

Weatherlow Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Weatherlow 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.

$327k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$413kEducation$364kAnimals$357kPhilanthropy$329kHealth$171kArts & Culture$144kHuman Services$62kCivil Rights$54kOther$0

02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k45 grants · $114k
$10k–50k13 grants · $213k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Planned Parenthood Federation of America	$30,000
OUR SISTERS SCHOOL	$30,000
SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$20,000
Lake George Association	$20,000
National Immigrant Justice Center	$20,000
Natural Resource Defense Council	$15,000
Ecological Research & Development Group	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$13,000
COLBY COLLEGE	$10,000
The Commons Foundation	$10,000
The Nature Conservancy of Rhode Island	$10,000
WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST	$10,000
Lake George Land Conservancy	$10,000
YWCA OF THE NORTH SHORE	$6,000
POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS	$6,000

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 67 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

67 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+38%

Still filing today

67%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

OS
OUR SISTERS SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +52%
WL
WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +3%
WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY
8× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +647%

Funded once

OC
OCEAN CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue -12%
AH
AMOS HOUSEgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +180%
TL
The Livestock Institute of Southern NE
one grant, 2019 · $25k

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.

Rainforest Trust

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

International

Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

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

Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

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

Animals

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 123 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)

80/81

Grantees still filing

55/81

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$837,817Philanthropy$437,250Education$347,500Animals$276,375Environment$254,000Arts & Culture$113,250Health$85,500

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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI29.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Weatherlow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weatherlow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

13report 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.

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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