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Witherbee 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 $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $55,000 |
| ONE COLLECTIVE | $40,000 |
| INHERITANCE FIRE | $35,000 |
| HARAMBEE MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| OLIVE CREST | $30,000 |
| FOSTERING YOUTH INDEPENDENCE | $25,000 |
| CALL TO WORSHIP MINISTRIES INC | $9,600 |
| FORNGO | $7,500 |
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 (FY19–23, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OCONE COLLECTIVE3× · 2022–2024 · $112k · revenue +7%
- IFINHERITANCE FIRE3× · 2022–2024 · $101k · revenue +91%
- OCOLIVE CREST3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- MPMission Pre-Born Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $260k · revenue +244%
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +51%- CICOMMUNITIES INC dba VALLEY COMMUNITIES FOR CHRISTone grant, 2019 · $101k · revenue -75% · 51% of their budget
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
To reach the North American continent with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, beginning with the local community of Freedom, CA. The vision is to see lives transformed through Christ in the local community, and then spread the ministry throughout…
The specific purpose of this Corporation is, but not limited to, evangelism; which is to share the love of God expressed in Christ Jesus. To promote evangelism in its many forms, including training and education that promotes the biblical…
Network Beyond is a Christian organization serving vulnerable and under-resourced people. We focus on three areas: 1. Leadership development - equipping global leaders with biblically based training. 2. Compassion and justice - support for…
Break Free exists to unleash Spirit-empowered communities from the global Hip-Hop community to strengthen the church and family.
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
Prodigal Sons Incorporated purpose is to minister and help marginalized individuals and communities throughout Los Angeles. We seek transformation in the lives of gang members and their familites through the ministry of the gospel in…
Providing shelter for the homeless
To further the name of christ in an international environment by holding church and evangelistic services including house of prayer and training center for equipping people in futhering christianity. the english language is also taught in…
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is San Gabriel Valley Music Theatre Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 68 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 WOW INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REPERTORY THEATER ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES INC dba VALLEY COMMUNITIES FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds INHERITANCE FIRE ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Healing 2 The Nations Intl Inc ↗
- Who funds Fostering Youth Independence ↗
- Who funds MISSION BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Cherished High Desert Inc ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FORNGO 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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Witherbee 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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