· Private foundation
Werler Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUMMIT ACADEMY | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS SKI JUMPING CLUB | $10,000 |
| CERES | $8,500 |
| THE ARC MINNESOTA | $6,000 |
| SHARING & CARING HANDS | $5,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| MISSION OF DEEDS | $5,000 |
| CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAMP CONFIDENCE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDSHIPWORKS | $5,000 |
| YWCA | $4,000 |
| MISSOULA FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% 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.
37 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- SASUMMIT ACADEMY OIC6× · 2018–2024 · $49k · revenue +22%
- CICERES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +66%
- TATHE ARC MINNESOTA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +202% · 48% of their budget
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +46%
- CJCASA JOJO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +557%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Casa Jojo Foundation. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 62 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGTON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF UNITARIAN CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds Montana Environmental Information Center ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CASA JOJO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
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: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · The Llewellyn Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Muralt Family Foundation · The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc · Marshall and Mary Brondum Special Assistance Foundation Inc · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · Louis L Borick Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc
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 Werler Family Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Gavin Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Piers Park Sailing Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
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.