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Wenaweser Foundation

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.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Human Services$59kEnvironment$43kFood & Nutrition$34kHousing & Shelter$19kReligion$14kEducation$12kHealth$5kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$411k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPELINK$10,000
NORTHWEST HARVEST$5,000
VISION HOUSE$4,000
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES$4,000
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION$4,000
TREEHOUSE$4,000
YWCA$4,000
SEATTLE'S UNION GOSPEL MISSION$3,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$3,000
STANWOODCAMANO FOOD BANK$2,000
SAFE HARBOR FREE CLINIC$2,000
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
LAWTON ELEMENTARY PTA$1,000
CASCADE BICYCLE CLUB$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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VISION HOUSE: $4k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $1k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $1k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $700 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 9%HOPELINK: $10k → 9%HOPELINK: $10k → 9%HOPELINK: $10k → 9%HOPELINK: $6k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MT
NY
MA
SD
CA
NE
VA
MD
KS
DC

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$181k · 30 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
4

Total granted

$181k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+33%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • H
    HOPELINK
    5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +30%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +59%
  • VH
    VISION HOUSE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • EC
    EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVALgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    one grant, 2022 · $700 · revenue -62%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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4
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund

To champion policies that center the expertise and resilience of overburdened communities for environmental progress and justice in the pacific northwest.

Environment
8
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
9
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
10
American Forests

Protection and expansion of threatened urban and wildland forest ecosystems. See Part III

Environment
11
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lawton Elementary School Pta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Community Health CentersSchool Parent OrganizationsPublic School District Foun…Animal Rescue and AdoptionPregnancy Support ServicesLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Food Pantries & AssistanceEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr15%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr15%16%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,936

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $30,500 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMMSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION — $14,000 · OtherSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSIONYWCA — $10,000 · OtherYWCAIndividual grant recipient — $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $5,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSTANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES — $3,000 · Other+18 more — $8,223 · Other+18 moreHOPELINK — $40,500 · Human ServicesHOPELINKVISION HOUSE — $12,000 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSEWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $6,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES+1 more — $900 · Human ServicesNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $17,500 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FO…Cascade Bicycle Club — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsCascade Bic…CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR T…EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE — $5,000 · EnvironmentEVERGREEN C…CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL — $5,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR …ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,100 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT…+3 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentRAINIER SCHOLARS — $7,000 · EducationLawton Elementary School PTA — $4,300 · EducationTREEHOUSE — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAFE HARBOR FREE CLINIC — $3,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $400 · Health
Other$78,223Human Services$59,400Recreation & Sports$20,500Environment$19,600Education$11,300Youth Development$8,000Health$3,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOPELINK — $40,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $30,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVISION HOUSE — $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLawton Elementary School PTA — $4,300 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCascade Bicycle Club — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR FREE CLINIC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $100 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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Seattle FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC13.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Seattle Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Wenaweser Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 42 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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