· Private foundation
Apex 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k111 grants · $310k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JED FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA MASON | $750,000 |
| PIMA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM | $300,000 |
| SEATTLE AQUARIUM | $300,000 |
| JED FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL AVIATION HALL OF FAME | $200,000 |
| NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER | $125,000 |
| AOPA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| KERING FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WHIM W'HIM | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FLIGHT | $75,000 |
| JED FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $65,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $964k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
164 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $423k 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
- TJTHE JED FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +142%
- MOMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +307%
- BRBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +115%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue -38%
- PHPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +49%
- NWNATIONAL WWII MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $150k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.
Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
277 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. 277 of the 389 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Whim WHim ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Aviation Hall of Fame ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds HYDROPLANE AND RACEBOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds LIFE WORKS ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Lucky Seven Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Artsfund · Real Progress Foundation · Thurston 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 Apex 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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