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Ash Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OVERLAKE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| FULCRUM FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| THE FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE | $3,000 |
| SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE | $3,000 |
| SEATTLE CHAPTER ARCS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST JOHN ENDOWMENT FUND | $1,022 |
| NPH USA | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE7× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +14%- OHOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +25%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF5× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- 5A5TH AVENUE THEATREone grant, 2019 · $60k
RIDER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -15%- STST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $7k
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.
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
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,…
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.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
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 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…
Pacific science center (pacsci) ignites curiosity in every child and fuels a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking in all of us.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 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) — 0% 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.
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 92 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 SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HUMANITIES AND ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds CANCER LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Puget Sound Community School ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 · Grousemont Foundation · Artsfund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Foster Foundation · Thurston Charitable 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 Ash Family 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.
- Rider University — 1% 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.