· Private foundation
Wrather Family 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 $10k46 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $17,500 |
| TRANQUILITY FARM | $15,000 |
| DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL THEATER FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK | $7,500 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| ORGANIC CONSUMER ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +26%
THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +23%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- LILINEHAN INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $85k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2017 · $40k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Maria Valley Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Pickleberry Pie 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 36 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 103 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 SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PONGO FUND ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Institute for Responsible Technology ↗
- Who funds NumFOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds BARK ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE TRAIN ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · California Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Manitou Fund · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Annenberg Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable 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 Wrather Family 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- The Portland Playhouse — 11% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Bark — 2% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 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.