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Adrian Hanauer 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.

$133k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$1.4MPhilanthropy$65kYouth Development$63kEducation$62kHuman Services$31kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$20kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rave Foundation$100,000
Epiphany School$12,500
Providence Health & Services$10,000
Alliance for Gun Responsibility$5,000
Lakeside School$2,500
Down Syndrome Center of Puget Sound$2,500
Seattle United$500
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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Down Syndrome Center of Puget Sound: $3k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 8 repeat orgs$307k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
29

Total granted

$1.4M
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+15%

Still filing today

100%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • RF
    Rave Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +333% · 59% of their budget
  • SS
    STARFIRE SPORTS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $205k · revenue +29%
  • AS
    AMERICA SCORES SEATTLE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • NB
    Never Broken Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -100% · 62% of their budget
  • BT
    BEN TOWNE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $26k
  • AH
    AMERICAN HOME ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

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
Seattle United Fc

Soccer club that brings premier and select teams under one management. league play and academy training for all players.

2
Pacific Northwest Soccer Club

PacNW offers top-level soccer training and development opportunities for players aged U8 through U19, all of whom are trained using the club's deliberate, integrated, long-term plan for player development.

Recreation & Sports
3
Washington State Youth Soccer Association

It is the mission of washington youth soccer to foster the physical, mental and emotional growth and development of the state of washington's youth through the sport of soccer at all levels of age and competition.

Recreation & Sports
4
Seattle International Soccer Local Organizing Committee

Seattle international soccer local organizing committee exists to use the incredible platform of soccer (including the 2026 fifa world cup(tm)) to enrich and enhance the lives of everyone who visits or lives in the state of washington and…

Community Improvement
5
Seattle Youth Soccer Association

Provide organized soccer for the youth in seattle

Recreation & Sports
6
Northwest United Fc

Northwest United is a premier youth soccer club serving Skagit County and surrounding areas. As one of the top clubs in the Pacific Northwest, we have grown to 41 teams across boys and girls' divisions, offering year-round development for…

Recreation & Sports
7
Bellevue Youth Soccer Club

To provide opportunities for all youths under the age of 19 to develop character and play affiliated soccer at a level commensurate with their ability and interest.

Recreation & Sports
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
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
10
Spokane Shadow Youth Soccer Club

Spokane shadow youth soccer club is a non-profit serving spokane's premier, select and developmental soccer families. we offer the highest standards of youth soccer advancement, delivering a unique package of development, competition,…

Recreation & Sports
11
Lake Washington Youth Soccer Association

To provide opportunities for all youths under the age of 19 develop character and play affiliated soccer at a level commensurate with their ability and interest.

Recreation & Sports
12
Eastside Football Club

To create an environment for youth soccer players that provides the highest level of training, competition, and player development in the state of washington.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Soccer Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Never Broken Foundation. 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 backsteadyIndependent Elementary Scho…Faith-Based Hospital SystemsYouth Stem & Leadership Dev…History and Heritage MuseumsCommunity Foundations & Don…Pacific Northwest Conservat…Affordable Housing & Suppor…Youth Soccer Programs
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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr12%5%35–55yr12%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%72%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr12%0%35–55yr12%11%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/26
the rest of the field
14%
1,718/12,713

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

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Rave Foundation — $1,047,050 · Recreation & SportsRave FoundationSTARFIRE SPORTS — $205,000 · Recreation & SportsSTARFIRE SPORTS+3 more — $22,500 · Recreation & SportsNever Broken Foundation — $100,000 · OtherNever Broken Fou…BEN TOWNE CENTER — $26,000 · OtherBEN TOWNE CENTERAMERICAN HOME ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN HOME AS…2018 SPECIAL OLYMPICS — $20,000 · Other2018 SPECIAL OLY…GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherKINGDOM HOPE — $10,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES — $10,000 · Other+20 more — $55,018 · Other+20 moreUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $50,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyVETSAID INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyWashington State Legends of Soccer — $5,000 · PhilanthropyEPIPHANY SCHOOL — $40,100 · EducationLAKESIDE SCHOOL — $19,600 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationAMERICA SCORES SEATTLE — $40,200 · Public BenefitSave The Children Federation Inc — $20,000 · InternationalWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $17,000 · Animals
Recreation & Sports$1,274,550Other$256,018Philanthropy$70,000Education$60,700Public Benefit$40,200International$20,000Animals$17,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRave Foundation — $1,047,050 over 6y, 59% of budgetSTARFIRE SPORTS — $205,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNever Broken Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA SCORES SEATTLE — $40,200 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetEPIPHANY SCHOOL — $40,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL — $19,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $5,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETSAID INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington State Legends of Soccer — $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDown Syndrome Community of Puget Sound — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORY INK — $2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENSHO — $500 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 FoundationWA14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Adrian Hanauer 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

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How do I get to Adrian Hanauer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Adrian Hanauer 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 42 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.

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