· Private foundation
WHW Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROADWORK INC | $9,000 |
| MAXS KANSAS CITY PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| WELCOMING NEIGHBORS NETWORK | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| OPTOMETRY GIVING SIGHT | $3,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $3,500 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BURNON INC | $3,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $3,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION | $3,000 |
| RADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL - SAN DIEGO | $3,000 |
| CENTER STAGE PLAYERS AND ARTS | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- MFMercy Flight SE Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast8× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +15%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +99%
CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +475%
Funded once
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +55%
- CACHALLENGED ATHLETES INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +12%
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.
Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…
Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
Sing for hope harnesses the power of the arts to create a better world. our creative programs bring hope, healing, and connection to millions of people in hospitals, schools, care facilities, and public spaces worldwide. a non-profit…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.
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.
Soundexchange is the premier music tech organization on a mission to power the (see schedule o)
To advocate for and support living composers
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Roadwork Center for Cultures in Disputed Territories. 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 29 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 — 4% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 61 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 Maxs Kansas City Project ↗
- Who funds Mercy Flight SE Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTICE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALLISON BRUNDICK HARAMIS FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Her Song Jacksonville Inc ↗
- Who funds CAL FIRE BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PARENTS OF MURDERED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds Sharp Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds LITTLE MOZART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville Wolfson Children's Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds OPTOMETRY GIVING SIGHT ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds The Magic Yarn Project ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds HEIFER INTERNATIONAL 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: Sempra Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · California Community Foundation · AbbVie 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 WHW Family 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.
- The Justice Coalition Inc — 60% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Mercy Flight Se Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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.