Oregon · 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.
- $974k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $129,167
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Wy'East Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $974k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $1.2M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.0M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $840k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $725k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $793k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $645k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $558k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $1,060,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $860,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $850,000 | 8 | 0% |
| 350org | $675,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Rare | $575,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Burning Man Project | $555,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $387,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Columbia Land Trust | $320,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Gorge Grown Food Network | $265,000 | 9 | 8% |
| United Way of the Columbia Gorge | $190,000 | 6 | 9% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $1,060,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $860,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $850,000 | 8 | 0% |
| 350org | $675,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Rare | $575,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Burning Man Project | $555,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $387,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Columbia Land Trust | $320,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Gorge Grown Food Network | $265,000 | 9 | 8% |
| United Way of the Columbia Gorge | $190,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Our Children's Trust | $175,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Western Environmental Law Center | $165,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Friends of the Columbia Gorge | $160,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Protect Our Winters | $157,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Center for Artistic Activism Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Arts in Education of the Gorge | $25,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Columbia Arts | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| CRAG Rats | $7,500 | 1 | 8% |
| The Next Door Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($340k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wy'East Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Wy'East Foundation
- How much does Wy'East Foundation give?
- Wy'East Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $974,167 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wy'East Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (72%), Arts & Culture (11%), Education (8%).
- Who are Wy'East Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($1.1M), Rocky Mountain Institute ($860k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($850k).
- Does Wy'East Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wy'East Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wy'East Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Greenfish Foundation, The Stebbins Fund Inc.
- Where is Wy'East Foundation based?
- Wy'East Foundation is based in OR.
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