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Alhadeff Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k36 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ALHADEFF FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $55,150 |
| THE 5TH AVENUE THEATRE | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE REP THEATRE | $19,520 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE | $12,000 |
| PNB PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET | $6,000 |
| TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI | $5,500 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| YOUTHCARE | $3,850 |
| WE THE PROTESTORS INC | $2,500 |
| CANCER LIFELINE | $2,500 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT | $2,500 |
| OHIO CAMPUS COMPACT | $2,500 |
| WSU FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 19 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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
- TNTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC3× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +59%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE2× · 2017–2018 · $36k · revenue +107%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM SEATTLE2× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +30%
Funded once
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATREone grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +15%- TWTHE WELLSPRING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +8%
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +42%
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.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Teentix. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 125 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 THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds THE WELLSPRING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTIMAN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OHIO CAMPUS COMPACT ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds Flying House Productions ↗
- Who funds A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Seattle Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds PIPELINE INC ↗
- Who funds Providence Hospital ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds HARLEQUIN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CANCER LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WE THE PROTESTERS 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: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Lucky Seven Foundation · Mightycause 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 Alhadeff Family Charitable 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.
- The Wellspring Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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