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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.

$115k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
4%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 28
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Bobby's Fund Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$115k23%
FY202325$90k4%
FY202226$88k19%
FY202128$83k21%
FY202026$79kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$132kHuman Services$109kPhilanthropy$80kFood & Nutrition$31kReligion$23kArts & Culture$17kHealth$16kAnimals$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of King County$78,00050%
University of Washington$40,7005n/a
Grays Harbor College Federation of Teachers$27,40058%
Northwest Harvest Emm$26,50050%
Team Read$16,00041%
Lakeside School$12,50050%
Annie Wright Schools$11,00050%
Young Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor$10,00010%
Georgetown University$9,00050%
Summerhouse Houston$7,50020%
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All grantees of Bobby's Fund Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of King County$78,00050%
University of Washington$40,7005n/a
Grays Harbor College Federation of Teachers$27,40058%
Northwest Harvest Emm$26,50050%
Team Read$16,00041%
Lakeside School$12,50050%
Annie Wright Schools$11,00050%
Young Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor$10,00010%
Georgetown University$9,00050%
Summerhouse Houston$7,50020%
George Pocock Rowing Foundation$7,00040%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$6,50050%
Pacific Public Media$6,00050%
Yale University$5,5003n/a
Smile Train Inc$5,00050%
Sea Mar Community Health Centers$5,00040%
Lunches of Love$4,50021%
Treehouse$3,00030%
Hopelink$3,00030%
Ancient Mariners Rowing Club$3,0001n/a
Equal Justice Initiative$2,50050%
Summer House Inc$2,00010%
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA$2,00010%
Yale University$2,0001n/a
Yale University$2,0001n/a
National Charity League Inc San Bernardino Chapter$1,50015%
National Charity League Rancho Irvine Chapter$1,50014%
Cascade Public Media$1,40010%
Safe Crossings Foundation$1,00010%
Rainier Scholars$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($151k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bobby's Fund Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of King County: $78,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGrays Harbor College Federation of Teachers: $27,400 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $26,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Read: $16,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLakeside School: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnnie Wright Schools: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgetown University: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSummerhouse Houston: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Public Media: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSea Mar Community Health Centers: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLunches of Love: $4,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTreehouse: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHopelink: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSummer House Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Charity League Inc San Bernardino Chapter: $1,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNational Charity League Rancho Irvine Chapter: $1,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCascade Public Media: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Crossings Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRainier Scholars: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationWA21.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Bobby's Fund Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bobby's Fund Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bobby's Fund Foundation

How much does Bobby's Fund Foundation give?
Bobby's Fund Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $115,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Bobby's Fund Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (24%), Philanthropy (18%).
Who are Bobby's Fund Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: United Way of King County ($78k), University of Washington ($41k), Grays Harbor College Federation of Teachers ($27k).
Does Bobby's Fund Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bobby's Fund Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bobby's Fund Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Medina Foundation.
Where is Bobby's Fund Foundation based?
Bobby's Fund Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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