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Catania Family 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k56 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPELINK REDMOND CENTER | $10,000 |
| BABIES OF HOMELESSNESS | $3,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $3,000 |
| BERTSCH SCHOOL | $2,840 |
| WESTSIDE BABY | $2,500 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $2,500 |
| WELLSPRING | $2,400 |
| DONEY COE PET CLINIC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| EILEEN AND CALLIES PLACE | $2,000 |
| TEAM CHILD | $2,000 |
| KINDERING | $2,000 |
| BACKPACK BRIGADE | $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 (FY19–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +1% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 12 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- HHOPELINK4× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +52%
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS6× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +93%
- GHGREATER HANSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- YAYouthCare Attention Developmentone grant, 2021 · $4k
- HNHOLY NAMES ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $4k
- WCWA Coalition Against Domestic Violeone grant, 2021 · $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.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
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…
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…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
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…
We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
YWCA Bellingham is part of a national network of programs with the shared mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, and freedom for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthcare and the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. 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 30 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 92 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 HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds GREATER HANSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TeamChild ↗
- Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds LifeWire ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds BABIES OF HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE ↗
- Who funds ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL GOLDEN GRADS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Eileen & Callies Place ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds RAVEN ROCK RANCH ↗
- Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KIDVANTAGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN TREATMENT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds PET PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ISSAQUAH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Hope Alliance Public Benefit Non-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds Bike Works Seattle ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE BABY ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE FKA ANIMAL TALK RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run Puget Sound ↗
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: The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Medina Foundation · Wilkins Charitable Foundation · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Windermere 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 Catania Family 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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