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Weeden Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
132
Grants FY2024still arriving
27
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$3.2MAnimals$660kEducation$122kInternational$110kFood & Nutrition$100kArts & Culture$98kPublic Benefit$54kReligion$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k79 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $152k
$15,000
Median grant
27
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESOLVE$52,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$50,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$50,000
PACIFIC FOREST TRUST$42,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC$32,000
AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION$30,000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP$30,000
WILDEARTH GUARDIANS$28,000
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE (WILD HERITAGE)$27,000
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER IN$25,000
CONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS INC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
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 (FY23–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STONEWOOD COMMUNITY PROJECT INC: $8k → 9%Stonewood Community Project Inc: $500 → 9%The Stissing Center: $3k → 9%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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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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 95 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

95 repeat relationships: 85 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
84

Total granted

$3.2M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+11%

Still filing today

77%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $716k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RI
    RESOLVE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $129k · revenue +6%
  • TP
    The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated
    3× · 2022–2024 · $96k · revenue +296%
  • SR
    Smith River Alliance Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $77k · revenue +338%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES
    one grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue +4%
  • CT
    CONSERVATION THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +4%
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.

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Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
2
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
3
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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4
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
5
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

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

Animals
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
8
Sustainable Conservation Inc

Sustainable conservation, inc works with the conservation fund, a nonprofit corporation, to create partnerships with the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to protect the outdoor heritage of the united states.

Environment
9
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
10
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

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11
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
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Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Solar Sister 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

148 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. 148 of the 229 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
147/148
Grantees still filing
71/148
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $95,500 · OtherEcojustice: $95,000 · Other+98 more: $2,229,884 · Other+98 moreSmith River Alliance Inc: $77,000 · EnvironmentSmith River Alliance IncYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON: $75,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE TO YUKONALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $75,000 · EnvironmentALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUEAshoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc: $70,000 · EnvironmentAshoka Trust for Research in …THE STORY OF STUFF PROJECT: $65,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $60,000 · EnvironmentWATER CLIMATE TRUST: $60,000 · EnvironmentGREEN CORPS INC: $55,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $50,000 · EnvironmentGlobal Forest Generation: $50,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentSANCTUARY FOREST INC: $45,000 · Environment+37 more: $527,000 · Environment+37 moreRESOLVE INC: $129,000 · AnimalsRESOLVE INCAmerican Bird Conservancy: $85,000 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Co…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $75,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLO…WILD SALMON CENTER: $55,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENT…THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $50,000 · AnimalsTHEODORE ROOSEVE…NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $50,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIF…African Wildlife Conservation Fund Inc: $50,000 · AnimalsAfrican Wildlife…PANTHERA CORPORATION: $45,000 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORA…TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $30,000 · AnimalsCONSERVATION THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH: $25,000 · AnimalsROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY: $25,000 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $25,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 · Animals+7 more: $74,000 · Animals+7 moreENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY: $45,000 · InternationalCONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $45,000 · InternationalChile-California Council: $35,000 · InternationalPCI-MEDIA IMPACT INC: $25,000 · InternationalSea Turtle Conservancy: $22,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST: $20,000 · International+1 more: $6,000 · InternationalPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC: $70,000 · EducationNORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER: $25,000 · EducationJocotoco Conservation Foundation: $20,000 · EducationRIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC: $10,500 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EducationDUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $5,500 · Education+5 more: $11,000 · EducationWild Earth Society Incorporated: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFirst Light Foundation: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALISBURY ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $4,500 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,625 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyWHITE FEATHER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,420,384Environment$1,304,000Animals$743,000International$198,000Education$159,000Arts & Culture$92,625Philanthropy$62,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetRESOLVE INC: $129,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $95,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSmith River Alliance Inc: $77,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAshoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL: $70,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetTHE STORY OF STUFF PROJECT: $65,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWATER CLIMATE TRUST: $60,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC: $59,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $56,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREEN CORPS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWild Earth Society Incorporated: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWOODS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Conservation Fund Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetGlobal Forest Generation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSANCTUARY FOREST INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $41,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOIKONOS - ECOSYSTEM KNOWLEDGE: $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUpstream Policy Institute Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAS YOU SOW: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC: $36,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetChile-California Council: $35,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES: $27,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMANOMET INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WATER IMPACT NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Light Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE POPULATION INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTULEYOME: $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% 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.

PatagoniaorgResources Legacy FundNational Fish and Wil…Clif Family FoundationThe Nature ConservancyThe Marisla FoundationMarin Community Found…Gordon E and Betty I …The Overbrook Foundat…Firedoll FoundationWilburforce FoundationLand Trust Alliance I…
PatagoniaorgCA58.4× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Resources Legacy Fund · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The Marisla Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Overbrook Foundation · Firedoll Foundation · Wilburforce Foundation · Land Trust Alliance Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Salisbury Association Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Northwoods Stewardship Center: 40% of income from government
  • Cascades Carnivore Project: 16% of income from government
  • Beyond Toxics: 13% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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How do I get to Weeden Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Weeden 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 229 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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