· Private foundation
William and Mary Little 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $14,600 |
| ST THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,750 |
| FOOD LIFELINE | $2,500 |
| PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM | $2,250 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| TRIPOLI HOUSTON ROCKET CLUB | $2,000 |
| CROSSWALK CENTER | $2,000 |
| INSPIRING HANDS INC | $2,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| THE MOUNTAINEERS | $1,400 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $1,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $900 |
| SAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE | $800 |
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 (FY19–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% 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.
34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 12 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +38%
- SJSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +22%
- FLFOOD LIFELINE4× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SSSEATTLE SCHOOL FOR BOYSone grant, 2022 · $9k
- EWEXPLORER WEST AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +16%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
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…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Humanities washington (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. we envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is MustLuvBoxers Rescue. 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 39 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 95 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SCHOOL FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds EXPLORER WEST AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE 180 ↗
- Who funds CROSSWALK CENTER ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Art Division ↗
- Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
- Who funds KA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FORTERRA NW ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Lucky Seven Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Seattle-Sonoran 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 William and Mary Little 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
- University of Portland — 1% 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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