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Bobo Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $55,745 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $14,366 |
| TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL | $14,050 |
| CANCER LIFELINE | $5,000 |
| DUNGHUANG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| STOLEN YOUTH | $5,000 |
| COPPER CANYON PRESS | $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 (FY21–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE5× · 2021–2025 · $166k · revenue +51%
- SASEATTLE ART MUSEUM5× · 2021–2025 · $72k · revenue +13%
- HSHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER2× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +10%
- TTREEHOUSEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -10%
- WPWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +30%
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Highline Medical Center Foundation brings our community together to support exceptional health care, close to home, for all who need it. Thanks to the generosity of our caring neighbors and friends, we help ensure that St Anne Hospital has…
The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum. 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 45 years old; the field is 15. 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 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Everstrong Prevention ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LOPEZ ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COPPER CANYON PRESS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ALTA INC ↗
- Who funds Catherine Washburn Medical Association ↗
- Who funds LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALASKA RAPTOR REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gorder Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Apex Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Artsfund
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 Bobo 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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Find your warmest path to Bobo Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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