· Private foundation
Weathertop Foundation F/K/A Thomas Nelson Urban Jr
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $163k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $226k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $318k
- $250k+1 grant · $311k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND FOUNDATION | $311,000 |
| FRIENDS OF VANCOUVER FOUNDATION | $138,000 |
| HOLDEN FOREST & GARDENS | $75,000 |
| FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE | $54,000 |
| CONCORD ACADEMY | $51,000 |
| VIRGINIA SQUASH RACQUETS ASSOCIATIO | $25,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SALIDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NEWBURYPORT TREES | $17,500 |
| BIDDEFORD POOL CONSERVATION TRUST | $15,000 |
| GOLDBERG CHARITABLE CORPORATION | $15,000 |
| JUDSON FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Weathertop Foundation F/K/A Thomas Nelson Urban Jr’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
116 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACONCORD ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $515k · revenue +70%
- RCRIDLEY COLLEGE FUND USA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $220k · revenue +373%
- SCST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $203k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- DIDANA-FARBER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $86k · revenue +42%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incone grant, 2023 · $64k · revenue +16%- GDGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +157%
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.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
How this is measured
106 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. 106 of the 186 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Meredith Corporation Foundation · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · Bookey Family Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Brenton Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · EMC Insurance Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Thomas & Linda Koehn Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Weathertop Foundation F/K/A Thomas Nelson Urban Jr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weathertop Foundation F/K/A Thomas Nelson Urban Jr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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