· Private foundation
Bates Family 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 $10k14 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $698k
- $250k+1 grant · $720k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOL | $720,000 |
| PINE ISLAND CAMP INC | $130,000 |
| SHATTUCK ST MARY'S SCHOOL | $105,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $105,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $90,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $68,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| ESQUESTRIAN LAND CONCERVATION RECOURCE | $50,000 |
| THE UNITED STATES PONY CLUBS INC | $50,000 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| TACOMA MUSEUM OF GLASS | $36,000 |
| SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST PAUL'S SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ST MARTIN'S LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
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, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +42% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- AWANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +63%
University of Chicago5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +52%- PIPine Island Camp5× · 2020–2024 · $460k · revenue +244%
Funded once
- ELESQUESTRIAN LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- 5A5TH AVENUE THEATERone grant, 2021 · $30k
- MBMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -3%
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenhill School and the most unlike its peers is Engeye Inc. 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 50 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.
40 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. 40 of the 58 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 ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Pine Island Camp ↗
- Who funds SHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds The Oakwood School Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Community House ↗
- Who funds GREENHILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds We Heart Seattle ↗
- Who funds SEQUIM CITY BAND ↗
- Who funds Concordia Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds DETROIT HORSE POWER ↗
- Who funds MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFT ME UP INC ↗
- Who funds THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
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: The Dimmer Family Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Oscar T and Olivann Hokold Foundation · LT Murray Family Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Forest Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · Medina Foundation · Seattle 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 Bates 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center 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.