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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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$6.0MHuman Services$5.0MPhilanthropy$3.0MEnvironment$2.7MArts & Culture$884kCommunity Improvement$817kInternational$800kCrime & Legal$658kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $615k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $335k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$40,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE INC$2,000,000
PROTEUS FUND INC$80,000
GROUNDSWELL ACTION FUND$80,000
PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND$75,000
HAWAII PEOPLE'S FUND$50,000
ABOUT FACE VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR$50,000
MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT$45,000
AMAZON WATCH$45,000
TIDES CENTER$45,000
CENTER FOR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZING$40,000
GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE$40,000
HONOR THE EARTH$40,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND$40,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$40,000
NETWORK ON WOMEN IN PRISON DBA LEGAL SERVICES FOR PRISONERS W CHILDREN$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RAINBOW DEFENSE FUND INC: $10k → 15%BELOVED BUILDERS INC: $15k → 12%AYNI INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $40k → 14%COOPERATION JACKSON: $30k → 23%LOUISIANA ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANTS IN DETENTION: $10k → 22%RAINBOW DEFENSE FUND INC: $10k → 15%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $40k → 14%COOPERATION JACKSON: $30k → 23%TIDES CENTER: $75k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $45k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $30k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $30k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $30k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $30k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $30k → 10%BUILDING PEOPLE POWER: $4.9M → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
WV
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 56 repeat orgs$9.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
44

Total granted

$8.6M
$7.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-2%

Still filing today

88%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $470k · revenue +57%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK
    4× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +37%
  • GI
    GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $350k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • BP
    Building People Power
    one grant, 2021 · $4.9M · revenue -100% · 100% of their budget
  • LC
    LIBERATED CAPITAL FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $275k · revenue -30%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment
2
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
4
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
5
The Alliance for Collective Action

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…

Environment
6
Nature for Justice

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.

Environment
7
Forward Together

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…

Health
8
Fund for Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
9
The Oakland Institute

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
11
Social Justice and Solidarity Fund

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.

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12
Rules Foundation

/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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

101 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/101
Grantees still filing
53/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Building People Power: $4,882,000 · Human ServicesBuilding People PowerTIDES CENTER: $480,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $300,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $275,000 · Human Services+8 more: $535,000 · Human Services+8 moreLIBERATED CAPITAL FUND: $1,000,000 · OtherLIBERATED CAPITAL FUNDHIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $478,334 · OtherHIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND EDUC…PROJECT SOUTH INC: $470,000 · OtherPROJECT SOUTH INCTHE CLIMATE COUSINS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $210,000 · OtherINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $210,000 · OtherPROTEUS FUND INC: $205,000 · OtherNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $375,000 · OtherNDN COLLECTIVE INCCritical Resistance: $298,000 · OtherCritical Resistance+42 more: $1,768,667 · Other+42 moreRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $2,000,000 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CIT…NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $400,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY LAB…GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $140,000 · Civil RightsRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $125,000 · Civil RightsKendra Alexander Foundation: $110,000 · Civil RightsMovimiento Cosecha Support Network: $110,000 · Civil Rights+7 more: $172,500 · Civil Rights+7 moreAmazon Watch Inc: $470,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch…WINDWARD FUND: $425,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUN…Taproot Earth: $205,000 · EnvironmentTaproot Eart…SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $180,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE L…CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $150,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUST…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND E…CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE: $100,000 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentCOAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc: $80,000 · Environment+8 more: $375,000 · Environment+8 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $585,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELL…RESOURCE GENERATION INC: $470,000 · PhilanthropyRESOURCE …Groundswell Fund: $210,000 · PhilanthropyGroundswe…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $190,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamat…HOPEWELL FUND: $150,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL …BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $65,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $159,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $350,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $340,000 · InternationalCenter for Third World Organizing: $100,000 · InternationalPeace Development Fund: $75,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC: $40,000 · International+2 more: $35,000 · InternationalThe Freedom Archives: $410,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $275,000 · Arts & CultureDANCERS GROUP: $120,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $44,167 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$6,472,000Other$5,265,001Civil Rights$3,057,500Environment$2,290,000Philanthropy$1,829,000International$940,000Arts & Culture$894,167

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBuilding People Power: $4,882,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $585,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $480,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $470,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $470,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetRESOURCE GENERATION INC: $470,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $425,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Freedom Archives: $410,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $400,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $375,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $350,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $340,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $300,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetCritical Resistance: $298,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $275,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $275,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CLIMATE COUSINS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $210,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $210,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $210,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTaproot Earth: $205,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $205,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $190,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S FUND: $190,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $180,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas: $150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $140,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGrassroots Power Project: $140,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetArab American Action Network: $130,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCausa Justa Just Cause: $130,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $125,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $120,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDANCERS GROUP: $120,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetKendra Alexander Foundation: $110,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetMovimiento Cosecha Support Network: $110,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE: $100,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGENERATIVE SOMATICS: $95,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetTHE WATERSHED CENTER INC: $90,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetCOAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC: $80,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMovement Generation: $80,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Amalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincCommon Counsel Founda…Tides FoundationProteus Fund IncRsf Social Finance IncSolidaire Network IncEast Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…The California Endowm…NEO Philanthropy IncGroundswell Fund
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC72.6× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Willow Redistribution Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willow Redistribution Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Willow Redistribution Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Willow Redistribution Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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