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Weller Investment Company at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0169% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$1,000
OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL$1,000
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK$1,000
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASS CHAPTER$1,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION$1,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$1,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$1,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$1,000
350 COLORADO$1,000
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS$1,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.
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 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
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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 350 Colorado; 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 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. 13 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
3/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNational Center for Science Education: $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
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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    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 16 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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