· Private foundation
William a Looney Family 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 $10k3 grants · $16k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA | $150,000 |
| Arboretum Foundation | $100,000 |
| SPRING CREEK High School FCCLA | $6,000 |
| TRI-CITIES UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $5,000 |
| Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence | $5,000 |
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, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k 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
- LCLutheran Community Services NW2× · 2017–2022 · $15M
- EYElko Youth Courts2× · 2022–2023 · $16k
- GBGREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue -47%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Elko Countyone grant, 2023 · $52k
- RMRuby Mountain Resource Centerone grant, 2023 · $38k
- WPWhatcom Parks & Rec Foundationone grant, 2017 · $31k
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.
To promote the development and preservation of affordable housing for all nevadans through collaboration, education, and advocacy.
To help families with children and individuals achieve self-reliance
Facilitate gifts & grants for the benefit of the University of Nevada, Reno to enhance the quality of education through charitable giving.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that raises and manages private funds for the benefit of UNLV. Our mission is to increase philanthropic support for the university, grow its endowment for…
The organization provides wraparound services to meet homeless youths' immediate, emergency needs and help them transition to long-term self- sufficiency. the organization's support comes primarily from government grants and corporate…
The mission of the nevada state college foundation board of trustees is to serve as ambassadors for nevada state college, to serve as fiduciary stewards of funds received by the foundation, and to raise funds in support of the educational,…
To empower neighborhood residents to build a vision of their community's future and to actively engage in solving local problems.
Promote and facilitate the construction of housing for transitionally homeless men, women, and children
To provide quality legal assistance and advocacy services for residents 60 years and older facing challenges of aging.
To deliver life-changing services to homeless, runaway, and in-crisis youth in northern nm.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eddy House and the most unlike its peers is Ywca of Greater Portland. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 28 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 THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds ELF LOUISE INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds Nevada Youth Ski Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
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.
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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 William a Looney 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% 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.
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