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Weller Investment Company

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.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Public Benefit$90kEnvironment$18kPhilanthropy$5kArts & Culture$4kEducation$1kAnimals$1kCrime & Legal$1kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$833k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEMOCRACY NOW$30,000
ROSE FOUNDATION$5,000
GREENPEACE FUND$2,665
MONTHLY REVIEW FOUNDATION$2,500
DENVER FILM$1,545
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$1,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$1,000
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS$1,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$1,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION$1,000
OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL$1,000
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK$1,000
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASS CHAPTER$1,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$1,000
350 COLORADO$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ROSE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $1k → 16%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $1k → 17%OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $1k → 12%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $51k → 12%NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION: $1k → 10%RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK: $1k → 10%DEMOCRACY NOW: $30k → 17%GREENPEACE FUND: $3k → 14%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $45k → 12%DEMOCRACY NOW: $30k → 17%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $43k → 12%DEMOCRACY NOW: $30k → 17%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $43k → 12%MONTHLY REVIEW FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $18k → 12%CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $1k → 17%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $11k → 12%NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASS CHAPTER: $1k → 17%DENVER FILM: $2k → 12%ALLIANCE FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
2
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
3
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
4
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
5
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
6
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
7
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
8
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
9
Environment Now
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Climate Central Inc

Climate central, inc. (the organization") is an independent not-for-profit organization of leading scientists, technology experts and communication professionals that are dedicated to researching and reporting on climate change and its…

Science & Tech
12
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 350 Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Denver Film Society. 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

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

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC+2 more — $4,045 · Arts & CultureThe Alliance For Collective Action — $10,399 · EnvironmentThe Alliance F…GREENPEACE FUND INC — $2,665 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUN…Rainforest Action Network — $1,000 · EnvironmentRainforest Act…350 COLORADO — $1,000 · Environment350 COLORADONATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOUR…ROSE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherRocky Mountain Institute — $1,000 · OtherNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASS CHAPTER — $1,000 · OtherCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY — $1,000 · OtherNational Center for Science Education — $1,000 · Science & TechWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · EducationOil Change International Inc — $1,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $1,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$94,045Environment$16,064Other$8,000Science & Tech$1,000Education$1,000Public Benefit$1,000Civil Rights$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Alliance For Collective Action — $10,399 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMONTHLY REVIEW FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY — $1,545 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOil Change International Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350 COLORADO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Weller Investment Company 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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