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Bobby's Fund 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 $10k22 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $20,000 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF GRAYS HARBOR | $10,000 |
| GRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE | $7,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $7,000 |
| EPIPHANY PARISH OF SEATTLE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TEAM READ | $4,000 |
| HEART OF TEXAS FCA | $3,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| LAKESIDE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| PAWS | $1,500 |
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, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- LSLAKESIDE SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +126%
- AWANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +63%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- PRPOCOCK ROWING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- NMNATIONAL MS SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $4k
- AMANCIENT MARINERS ROWING CLUBone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
The mission of Impact Public Schools is to prepare a diverse student population to succeed in college and impact communities as the next generation of equity-driven, innovative leaders. (Continued on Schedule O)Impact Public Schools makes…
Using Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) and oral communication we prepare deaf and hard-of-hearing children to be self-confident, articulate and academically competitive learners, and engaged community members.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…
Seattle girls' school is a 5th through 8th grade middle school committed to inspiring and developing courageous leaders who think independently, work collaboratively, learn joyfully and champion change. we empower students to be leaders in…
Giving every child the opportunity to thrive from cradle to career requires dedication and teamwork. eastside pathways helps individuals and organizations collaborate to focus their efforts, increase equity, decrease harm, and drive…
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…
Seattle country day school is an independent, coeducational school serving kindergarten through eighth grade, inspiring gifted children to reach their potential through inquiry, curiosity, and wonder.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 45 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 UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds Team Read ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds George Pocock Rowing Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds SEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds LUNCHES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SUMMER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE INC SAN BERNARDINO CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE RANCHO IRVINE CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
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 · The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Bobby's Fund 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.
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