· Private foundation
Willow Redistribution 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k22 grants · $615k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $335k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE INC | $2,000,000 |
| PROTEUS FUND INC | $80,000 |
| GROUNDSWELL ACTION FUND | $80,000 |
| PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND | $75,000 |
| ABOUT FACE VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR | $50,000 |
| HAWAII PEOPLE'S FUND | $50,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $45,000 |
| MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT | $45,000 |
| AMAZON WATCH | $45,000 |
| CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND | $40,000 |
| CENTER FOR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZING | $40,000 |
| HONOR THE EARTH | $40,000 |
| GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $40,000 |
| NETWORK ON WOMEN IN PRISON DBA LEGAL SERVICES FOR PRISONERS W CHILDREN | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $5.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 9 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
RESOURCE GENERATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $470k · revenue +57%- NDNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK4× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +37%
- GIGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $350k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- BPBuilding People Powerone grant, 2021 · $4.9M · revenue -100% · 100% of their budget
- LCLIBERATED CAPITAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCone grant, 2022 · $275k · revenue -30%
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.
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
The Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank, works to support global struggles for Indigenous rights, human rights, and land rights and to promote public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and…
Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.
The Funds mission is to provide sustained support to grassroots organizing projects and movements rooted in the multi-racial working class which rely on their members and constituency to build power in the community.
/The Rules is a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality, climate change, and poverty around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Climate Cousins 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 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 120 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 Building People Power ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds The Freedom Archives ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NDN COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
- Who funds COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Critical Resistance ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLIMATE COUSINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Taproot Earth ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
- Who funds Grassroots Power Project ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Arab American Action Network ↗
- Who funds Causa Justa Just Cause ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DANCERS GROUP ↗
- Who funds CANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Movimiento Cosecha Support Network ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Endowment · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Groundswell Fund
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 Willow Redistribution 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.
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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