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Weatherspoon Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Weatherspoon Charitable 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.

$503k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$503k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$524kPhilanthropy$520kFood & Nutrition$331kHousing & Shelter$235kInternational$217kAnimals$191kHuman Services$179kReligion$177kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$503,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$503,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OAKS INDIAN MISSION: $1k → 18%REACH INC: $2k → 14%FOOD AT FIRST: $30k → 17%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $12k → 12%GUNS DOWN FRIDAY GDF: $1k → 11%OAKS INDIAN MISSION: $750 → 18%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $15k → 14%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC: $12k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%FOOD AT FIRST: $14k → 17%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%PROJECT NORMALIZATION OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $4k → 10%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%NATIONAL CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT INC: $5k → 17%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $5k → 14%FOOD AT FIRST: $14k → 17%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%FOOD AT FIRST: $11k → 17%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 12%FOOD AT FIRST: $11k → 17%NEW FUTURES: $2k → 14%FOOD AT FIRST: $7k → 17%AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK: $3k → 10%AYUDA: $500 → 14%FOOD AT FIRST: $5k → 17%FOOD AT FIRST: $5k → 17%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
MD
KS
NC
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 81 repeat orgs$788k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

81 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 81 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
54

Total granted

$2.5M
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthAnimalsEducationInternationalOther
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

  • CHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER
    4× · 2018–2021 · $103k · revenue +172%
  • FA
    FOOD AT FIRST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +551%
  • AC
    Austin Community College Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +204%

Funded once

  • MC
    METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH OF OMAHA
    one grant, 2022 · $28k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2024 · $18k
  • SH
    SHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOMEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue +106%
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.

1
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
3
Earthenable Inc

Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…

International
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
6
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
7
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
8
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
9
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
10
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
11
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
12
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Guns Down Friday Gdf. 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 137 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
61/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND: $503,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUNDNEVADA COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $130,000 · OtherNEVADA COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTPORTLAND RESCUE MISSION: $84,333 · OtherFRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK: $80,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $74,000 · OtherJOHNSTON PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY INC: $71,000 · Other+85 more: $1,140,783 · Other+85 moreEL BUEN PASTOR EARLY CHILDHOOD Development Center: $122,500 · EducationEL BUEN PA…Austin Community College Foundation: $88,500 · EducationAustin Com…ALPINE ASCENTS FOUNDATION: $64,000 · EducationALPINE ASC…Black Girls Do STEM: $29,500 · EducationBlack Girl…+2 more: $12,000 · EducationFOOD AT FIRST: $95,250 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $62,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $20,000 · Human Services+10 more: $23,750 · Human ServicesCHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER: $103,000 · AnimalsHELPING RHINOS USA: $22,000 · AnimalsTURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE: $21,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC: $14,500 · AnimalsBAILING OUT BENJI: $9,250 · Animals+2 more: $7,000 · AnimalsPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $41,500 · HealthJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $41,000 · HealthPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $32,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $22,250 · HealthBRIDGES OF HOPE: $20,000 · HealthTHE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION: $8,000 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthROSE HAVEN CIC: $84,333 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTE: $24,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterThistle Community Housing: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterBlack Women Build - Baltimore Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Covenant Shelter of New London Inc: $9,250 · Housing & ShelterBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $8,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $65,250 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $49,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,750 · InternationalAmigos de las Americas: $20,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · International
Other$2,083,116Education$316,500Human Services$201,000Animals$176,750Health$166,250Housing & Shelter$164,583International$157,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEL BUEN PASTOR EARLY CHILDHOOD Development Center: $122,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetCHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER: $103,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetFOOD AT FIRST: $95,250 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetAustin Community College Foundation: $88,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $84,333 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK: $80,000 over 8y, 44% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $74,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSTON PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY INC: $71,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $65,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALPINE ASCENTS FOUNDATION: $64,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $62,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD SHARE OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $57,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCALLEVA INC: $54,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $49,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $41,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $41,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNahant Preservation Trust Inc: $33,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Girls Do STEM: $29,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $29,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $24,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $22,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING RHINOS USA: $22,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetTURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE: $21,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos de las Americas: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetREGIONAL ICE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $19,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSHELTER HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE BRIDGE HOME: $16,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetArts Business Collaborative: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThistle Community Housing: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Women Build - Baltimore Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $9,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAILING OUT BENJI: $9,250 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGICHIGAMIIN INDIGENOUS NATIONS MUSEUM INC: $9,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRILATINO TRIATHLON CLUB INC: $7,500 over 1y, 15% 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.

  • Who funds EL BUEN PASTOR EARLY CHILDHOOD Development Center ↗
  • Who funds CHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOOD AT FIRST ↗
  • Who funds Austin Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSTON PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALPINE ASCENTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD SHARE OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CALLEVA INC ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Nahant Preservation Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Black Girls Do STEM ↗
  • Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds HELPING RHINOS USA ↗
  • Who funds TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗

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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Hammond Family Founda…Greater Washington Co…Austin Community Foun…United Way for Greate…Alliant Energy Founda…Carl C Anderson Sr an…Prairie Meadows Race …Tides FoundationThe Robert Wood Johns…The San Francisco Fou…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA13.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Hammond Family Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way for Greater Austin · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Tides Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher 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 Weatherspoon Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weatherspoon Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • The Covenant Shelter of New London Inc: 61% of income from government
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Weatherspoon Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Weatherspoon Charitable 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 137 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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