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47th Avenue 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$4.4MEducation$1.5MReligion$1.1MHealth$485kHuman Services$401kYouth Development$264kRecreation & Sports$120kInternational$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $870k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $498k
  • $250k+2 grants · $555k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT$300,000
KINDERING$255,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$230,031
CLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE$100,000
RECOVERY CAFE$65,000
ST MONICA CATHOLIC SCHOOL$53,095
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND$50,000
WOODLAND PARK ZOO$47,000
COUNTRY VILLAGE DAY SCHOOL$42,150
ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION$40,000
BOYER CHILDREN'S CLINIC$35,000
PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT$33,333
THE SERVICE BOARD$33,125
BELONG PARTNERS$30,000
FAMILIES OF COLOR SEATTLE$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $341k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WESTSIDE BABY: $20k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $10k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $25k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $25k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 9%PARENT TRUST FOR WA CHILDREN: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $5k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $20k → 9%PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT: $35k → 9%PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT: $33k → 9%AKIN: $20k → 9%RUBY ROOM: $25k → 9%MERCER ISLAND PRESCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $3k → 9%TOYS FOR KIDS: $20k → 9%ROUTE 21: $25k → 9%KIDVANTAGE: $45k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.4M · 18 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$6.4M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-11%

Still filing today

89%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $706k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +307%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $690k · revenue +18%
  • KC
    KINDERING CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $292k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • BP
    BELLEVUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
  • FF
    FAMILY FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -55%
  • K
    KIDVANTAGE
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -8%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Brightspark Early Learning Services

To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…

Human Services
2
Seattle Institute for Early Childhood Development

Hilltop is transforming early childhood education through play, collaboration, and reflection: in our classrooms with children, partnerships with families, and professional development with educators.

Education
3
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
4
Spruce Street School

Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…

Education
5
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
6
Washington State Family and Community Engagement Trust

Washington Family Engagement fosters social transformation by supporting the development of mulitgenerational leaders from diverse backgrounds to become actively engaged in schools and communities in Washington State.

Philanthropy
7
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
8
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
9
Seattle Amistad School

At Seattle Amistad School, we foster community integrity through rigorous bilingual and bicultural education, developing our students' academic strengths and cultural sensibilities, while nurturing compassionate and engaged citizens.

Education
10
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
11
Seattle School for Boys

Seattle School for Boys encourages and inspires boys to become collaborative learners, creative thinkers, and compassionate leaders who genuinely care about our diverse global community.

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12
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEarly Childhood Development…Independent Day SchoolsYouth Mentoring & Civic Lea…Early Childhood Education C…Supportive Housing & Servic…Education Access & Advancem…Homeless Services & HousingPhilanthropic Grantmaking F…International Development &…Private Membership ClubsElementary School PTAsFamily Philanthropic Founda…History and Cultural Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%12%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr12%67%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
14%
1,719/12,680

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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
24/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION — $4,350,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION+2 more — $17,500 · Arts & CultureBELLEVUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $1,100,000 · OtherBELLEVUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURC…KINDERING CENTER — $291,710 · OtherKINDERING CENTERCOUNTRY VILLAGE DAY SCHOOL — $79,828 · OtherCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE — $100,000 · Other+24 more — $530,677 · Other+24 moreWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $690,093 · EducationWAKE FOREST U…RAINIER SCHOLARS — $155,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOL…HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL — $97,000 · EducationHAMLIN ROBINS…Alliance for Education — $40,000 · Education+4 more — $80,000 · Education+4 moreRECOVERY CAFE — $190,000 · HealthBoyer Children's Clinic — $160,000 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $45,000 · HealthHOPECENTRAL — $42,000 · HealthBUILDING CHANGES — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthPROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT — $68,333 · Human ServicesKIDVANTAGE — $45,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABY — $30,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES — $25,000 · Human ServicesROUTE 21 — $25,000 · Human ServicesLifeWire — $25,000 · Human ServicesRUBY ROOM — $25,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesTOYS FOR KIDS — $20,000 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE PLACE — $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $17,500 · Human ServicesRAINIER ATHLETES — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Service Board — $33,125 · Youth DevelopmentBELONG Partners — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentZ GIRLS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$4,367,500Other$2,102,215Education$1,062,093Health$467,000Human Services$340,833Youth Development$153,125Recreation & Sports$120,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION — $4,350,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $690,093 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKINDERING CENTER — $291,710 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE — $190,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBoyer Children's Clinic — $160,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $155,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL — $97,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOUNTRY VILLAGE DAY SCHOOL — $79,828 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT — $68,333 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $62,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND — $51,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRAINIER ATHLETES — $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetKIDVANTAGE — $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPECENTRAL — $42,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAlliance for Education — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSports in Schools — $35,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetThe Service Board — $33,125 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBELONG Partners — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFamilies of Color Seattle — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROUTE 21 — $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetLifeWire — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUBY ROOM — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetENCOMPASS NORTHWEST — $22,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAMMAMISH ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZeno — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGRASSROOT PROJECTS — $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTREEHOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHAVEN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTOYS FOR KIDS — $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenise Louie Education center — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELLEVUE ART MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNW Childrens Foundation — $12,082 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Medina FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Grousemont FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Windermere FoundationRaikes FoundationNW Childrens Foundati…Gates Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA66× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Windermere Foundation · Raikes Foundation · NW Childrens Foundation · Gates 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 47th Avenue 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to 47th Avenue Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to 47th Avenue 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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