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Biella 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 $10k76 grants · $311k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k29 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+1 grant · $408k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $408,000 |
| VINE MAPLE PLACE | $60,000 |
| TREEHOUSE | $60,000 |
| SOUND GENERATIONS | $60,000 |
| YWCA SEATTLE-KING-SNOHOMISH | $60,000 |
| BRIDGE DISABILITIES MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE | $60,000 |
| HOPELINK | $60,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC | $60,000 |
| THE RESCUE MISSION | $60,000 |
| RECOVERY CAFE | $60,000 |
| PLYMOUTH HOUSING | $60,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $60,000 |
| KINDERING CENTER | $60,000 |
| SEATTLE UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $60,000 |
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, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% 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 +19% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 16 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
- SSSOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +63% · 43% of their budget
- VMVINE MAPLE PLACE5× · 2020–2024 · $526k · revenue +75%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)5× · 2020–2024 · $490k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- PRPORTLAND RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $30k
- IHIMAGINE HOUSINGgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +96%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
Support people with disabilities and low incomes to realize their purpose, potential and strength.
Catholic charities affirms the dignity of every person, partnering with parishes and the greater community to serve and advocate for those who are vulnerable, bringing stability and hope to people throughout eastern washington.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.
Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Love in the Name of Christ of Mason County. 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 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) — 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.
98 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. 98 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 SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Acres of Diamonds ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CRISTA Ministries ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANACORTES FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT SERVING WOUNDED WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Windermere Foundation · Washington Federal 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 Biella 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.
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Year Up 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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