· Private foundation
Willman-Crowley 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Christ Church United Methodist | $20,750 |
| The 5th Avenue Theatre | $20,000 |
| University of Puget Sound | $9,950 |
| World Central Kitchen | $6,500 |
| Broadway Inspirational Voices | $6,000 |
| Pipeline Theatre Company | $3,000 |
| Seattle Symphony Orchestra | $2,500 |
| Childrens Aid Society | $2,500 |
| Nature Conservancy | $2,500 |
| Salvation Army | $2,500 |
| Freedom Education Project Puget Sound | $2,500 |
| Seattle Repertory Theatre | $2,500 |
| Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS | $2,000 |
| YouthCare | $2,000 |
| MasterVoices | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BIBroadway Inspirational Voices Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +39%
- PTPIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +90%
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- CCChrist Church New Yorkone grant, 2020 · $17k
- NTNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +384%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +7%
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.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera. seattle opera is vital to the dynamic cultural and civic life of our region and to the evolution of opera across the world.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
To be philadelphia's professional producer of quality grand opera, producing a diverse range of repertoire featuring international artists alongside rising young singers, and to produce educational programs which nurture the future and…
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
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 mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Teleios. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 57 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 Broadway Inspirational Voices Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNE HELPLINE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds TELEIOS ↗
- Who funds NIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds Showtunes Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arts West ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Alhadeff Family Charitable Foundation · Artsfund · American Gift Fund · Fales Foundation Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The 97 Fund · The Wilke Family Foundation · Grousemont 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 Willman-Crowley 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
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% 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.