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Block-Leavitt 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 $10k24 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RVFB (RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK) | $10,000 |
| TOWN HALL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ACT THEATRE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| KCTS (KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC) | $5,000 |
| SCT (SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE) | $5,000 |
| SEATTE REPERTORY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| COLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES | $4,000 |
| ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE | $4,000 |
| ENDOWMENT FOR EQUAL JUSTICE | $3,000 |
| NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH | $3,000 |
| REWA(REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE) | $2,000 |
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, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
33 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- KPKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +28%
- EFENDOWMENT FOR EQUAL JUSTICE4× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +181%
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- BEBrightspark Early Learning Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +187%
- LOLEAGUE OF RESIDENT THEATRES INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +9%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GTR WAone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
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…
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,…
TPS works to foster and advocate for a robust and equitable theatre community in the Puget Sound Region.
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.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Neighborhood revitalization and community economic development within the Pioneer Square district of Seattle
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 47 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 KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Brightspark Early Learning Services ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ENDOWMENT FOR EQUAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Washington ↗
- Who funds Refugee Womens Alliance ↗
- Who funds A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF RESIDENT THEATRES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Downtown Emergency Service Center ↗
- Who funds FORTERRA NW ↗
- Who funds Northwest Justice Project ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PUBLIC THEATER ↗
- Who funds FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES ↗
- Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ENSEMBLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arts Corps ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found ↗
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 · Grousemont Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · United Way of King County · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gates Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Artsfund · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Moccasin Lake 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 Block-Leavitt 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.
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.