· Private foundation
Wy'East 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $754k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $129,167 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $125,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $125,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $125,000 |
| RARE | $75,000 |
| BURNING MAN PROJECT | $75,000 |
| OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST | $50,000 |
| COLUMBIA LAND TRUST | $50,000 |
| GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK | $35,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE | $35,000 |
| WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $30,000 |
| HOOD RIVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PROTECT OUR WINTERS | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of your 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.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 4 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 FY2025, 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
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +202%
Rocky Mountain Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $860k · revenue +381%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $850k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- SOSPIRIT OF GRACE CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $25k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE GORGEone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CRCRAG Ratsgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +190%
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.
Providing legal aid to the environment by providing legal services to conservation organizations, community groups, native american tribes, and individuals working to protect and sustain the pacific northwest's natural legacy.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Earthjustice is a premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. we wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy,…
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbia Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Crag Rats. 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 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds BURNING MAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE ↗
- Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Columbia Gorge ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN EDUCATION OF THE GORGE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA ARTS ↗
- Who funds CRAG Rats ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR 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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Greenfish Foundation · The Stebbins Fund Inc · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc · The Roundhouse Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Wy'East 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Crag Rats — 41% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Columbia Arts — 8% 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.