· Private foundation
Whatley Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREEHOUSE | $20,000 |
| UPLIFT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WATERFRONT | $9,200 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,700 |
| RECOVERY CAFE | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TELEIOS | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS | $3,000 |
| OVERFLOW FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER | $2,500 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
57 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 7 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- TTREEHOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +172%
- TTELEIOS7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +18%
- DIDISCOVERY INSTITUTE4× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- UNUPLIFT NORTHWESTone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +21%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $16k
- JWJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTERone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -19%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
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.
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…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Literacy 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 36 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 — 1.0% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 145 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 TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TELEIOS ↗
- Who funds EARL PALMER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds EPIPHANY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE 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 · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Donald Family Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Lucky Seven Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kennedy-Ries Family 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 Whatley 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.