· Private foundation
Welfund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NW SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT BU | $50,000 |
| URBAN ART WORKS | $10,000 |
| LEAVENWORTH SKI HILL HERITAGE FND | $6,300 |
| GRUNEWALD GUILD | $5,000 |
| TEEN & KID CLOSET | $5,000 |
| RED & BLUE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| WENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| CHELAN COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,200 |
| WSU | $1,000 |
| CHRIS CRAFT ANTIQUE BOAT CLUB | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- NSNorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding4× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +82%
- WRWENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +179%
- UAURBAN ARTWORKS3× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS PUGET SOUNDone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TSTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +20%
- LSLEAVENWORTH SKI HILL HERITAGEone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
Our mission is to restore wild salmon and steelhead & support sustainable fishing in the pacific northwest.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Willamette riverkeeper's guiding principle is: "we believe a river with excellent water quality, abundant natural habitat, safe for fishing and recreation is a basic public right." for 27 years, willamette riverkeeper (wrk) has acted as…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Washington trails association is on a mission to connect everyone to the outdoors and build a community that gives back to trails and public lands.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
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…
The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 39 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 Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding ↗
- Who funds WENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASCADE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN ARTWORKS ↗
- Who funds CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds St Charles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Teen Closet ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CONFLUENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRUNEWALD GUILD ↗
- Who funds Jackson Hole Public Art ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHRIS CRAFT ANTIQUE BOAT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEPOWER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Community Foundation of Ncw · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Welfund Inc 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.
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.
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