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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.

$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$197kHousing & Shelter$43kHealth$39kAnimals$35kEducation$32kFood & Nutrition$23kPhilanthropy$20kYouth Development$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k56 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPELINK REDMOND CENTER$10,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$3,000
BABIES OF HOMELESSNESS$3,000
BERTSCH SCHOOL$2,840
WESTSIDE BABY$2,500
ST FRANCIS HOUSE$2,500
WELLSPRING$2,400
DONEY COE PET CLINIC$2,000
WA STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC$2,000
TEAM CHILD$2,000
EILEEN AND CALLIES PLACE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
GREATER HANSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER$2,000
VISION HOUSE$2,000
MARY'S PLACE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%Blue Skies for Children: $2k → 12%BLUE SKIES FOR CHLDREN: $1k → 12%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 12%WESTSIDE BABY: $3k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $2k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $1k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $1k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $2k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $1k → 9%LIFE WIRE: $3k → 9%Life Wire: $3k → 9%Life Wire: $2k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $2k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%Birthday Dreams: $2k → 9%Wellspring Family Services: $2k → 9%Hopelink: $10k → 9%Hopelink: $10k → 9%HOPELINK REDMOND: $5k → 9%Hopelink: $5k → 9%YOUTH CARE ATTN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE: $3k → 9%Eastside Baby Corner: $2k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD CLOTHING BANK: $2k → 9%YOUTH CARE ATTN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE: $2k → 9%YOUTH CARE ATTN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE: $2k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD CLOTHING BANK: $2k → 9%Issaquah Food Clothing Bank: $2k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $2k → 9%KID ADVANTAGE: $2k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $1k → 9%KID ADVANTAGE: $2k → 9%CITY MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD CLOTHING BANK: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$411k · 60 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
20

Total granted

$411k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+1%

Still filing today

73%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • H
    HOPELINK
    4× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +52%
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +93%
  • GH
    GREATER HANSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • YA
    YouthCare Attention Development
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • HN
    HOLY NAMES ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • RH
    ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL GOLDEN GRADS
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
2
Network Services

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…

Human Services
3
Brightspark Early Learning Services

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…

Human Services
4
House Our Neighbors

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…

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5
West Seattle Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
7
Building Changes

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…

Health
8
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
9
We Heart Seattle

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…

Community Improvement
10
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska

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…

Health
11
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

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,…

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12
Young Women's Christian Association of Bellingham

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthcare; 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.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
40/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPELINK REDMOND CENTER: $27,002 · OtherHOPELINK REDMOND CENTERNEW BEGINNINGS: $15,800 · OtherNEW BEGINNINGSGREATER HANSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER: $14,578 · OtherGREATER HANSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTERUNION GOSPEL MISSION: $9,000 · OtherCatholic Community Services: $8,900 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE: $8,400 · OtherTeamChild: $12,000 · Other+43 more: $156,255 · Other+43 moreHOPELINK: $30,000 · Human ServicesHOPELINKLifeWire: $9,755 · Human ServicesLifeWireEileen & Callies Place: $7,500 · Human ServicesEileen & Callies PlaceVISION HOUSE: $7,000 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSEBLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $6,800 · Human ServicesBLUE SKIES FOR CHILDRENKIDVANTAGE: $6,500 · Human ServicesKIDVANTAGEISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $6,375 · Human ServicesISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTH…YOUTHCARE: $5,500 · Human ServicesYOUTHCAREWESTSIDE BABY: $5,500 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABY+7 more: $10,700 · Human Services+7 moreYouth Eastside Services: $10,875 · HealthCRISIS CONNECTIONS: $9,400 · HealthEVERGREEN TREATMENT SERVICES: $6,400 · HealthCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER: $4,600 · HealthBoyer Children's Clinic: $1,400 · HealthCOCOON HOUSE: $14,000 · Housing & ShelterBABIES OF HOMELESSNESS: $8,500 · Housing & ShelterBAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES: $3,800 · Housing & ShelterLevel Up Seattle: $2,800 · Housing & ShelterRAVEN ROCK RANCH: $7,000 · AnimalsPET PARTNERS: $5,875 · AnimalsSEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE FKA ANIMAL TALK RESCUE: $5,475 · AnimalsPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $2,000 · AnimalsDONEY MEMORIAL PET CLINIC DBA DONEY COE PET CLINIC: $2,000 · AnimalsPAWSITIVE ALLIANCE: $1,500 · AnimalsTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $1,400 · AnimalsMaris Place: $7,375 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $6,200 · Youth DevelopmentINVEST IN YOUTH: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $1,380 · Youth DevelopmentPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $5,875 · EducationJUSTICE AND SOUL FOUNDATION: $2,900 · EducationBERTSCHI SCHOOL: $2,840 · EducationTHE NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HUMANITIES AND ENVIRONMENT: $1,380 · EducationListen and Talk: $1,200 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $1,200 · Education
Other$251,935Human Services$95,630Health$32,675Housing & Shelter$29,100Animals$25,250Youth Development$18,955Education$15,395

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPELINK: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS: $15,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER HANSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER: $14,578 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTeamChild: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Eastside Services: $10,875 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLifeWire: $9,755 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTIONS: $9,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBABIES OF HOMELESSNESS: $8,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE: $8,400 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL GOLDEN GRADS ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetEileen & Callies Place: $7,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetEVERYONE FOR VETERANS: $7,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMaris Place: $7,375 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAVEN ROCK RANCH: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $6,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDVANTAGE: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREEN TREATMENT SERVICES: $6,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $6,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $6,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $5,875 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISSAQUAH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5,875 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPET PARTNERS: $5,875 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHope Alliance Public Benefit Non-Profit Corporation: $5,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBike Works Seattle: $5,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE FKA ANIMAL TALK RESCUE: $5,475 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGirls on the Run Puget Sound: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARC - KING COUNTY: $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER: $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHunger Intervention Program: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINVEST IN YOUTH: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES: $3,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE AND SOUL FOUNDATION: $2,900 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBERTSCHI SCHOOL: $2,840 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLevel Up Seattle: $2,800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEverstrong Prevention: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAtlantic Street Center: $2,380 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBackpack Meals for Kids: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPACE BETWEEN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESCHARITY: $2,000 over 1y, 29% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 VISION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds RAVEN ROCK RANCH ↗
  • Who funds BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds KIDVANTAGE ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN TREATMENT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
  • Who funds ISSAQUAH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds PET PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds Hope Alliance Public Benefit Non-Profit Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Bike Works Seattle ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE BABY ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE FKA ANIMAL TALK RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Girls on the Run Puget Sound ↗

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Moccasin Lake Foundat…United Way of King Co…Garneau Nicon Family …Lucky Seven FoundationMedina FoundationWilkins Charitable Fo…Elizabeth a Lynn Foun…Windermere Foundation
The Norcliffe FoundationWA75.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Catania Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catania Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Catania Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Catania Family 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.

    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 92 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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