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Donald Family 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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$524kEnvironment$463kHealth$310kHousing & Shelter$266kPhilanthropy$146kYouth Development$59kArts & Culture$51kAnimals$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$384k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEADOC SOCIETY$25,500
RECOVERY CAFE$25,000
FUNHOUSE COMMONS$25,000
SEADOC SOCIETY$10,000
UW MEDICINE ADVANCEMENT$10,000
SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST$7,000
OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$5,000
UPLIFT$5,000
A GIVING HEART$2,500
ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
OVERFLOW 912$2,000
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$1,000
PRINCETON ROWING$1,000
KCSARC$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OVERFLOW 9 12: $2k → 11%OVERFLOW 912: $2k → 11%UPLIFT: $10k → 9%UPLIFT: $8k → 9%UPLIFT: $5k → 9%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 10%UPLIFT: $5k → 9%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 10%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 10%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
OR
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC
GA
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 51 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
49

Total granted

$1.7M
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+73%

Still filing today

63%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthHousing & 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

  • RC
    RECOVERY CAFE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $236k · revenue +254%
  • PH
    PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +108%
  • OC
    OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • UD
    UC DAVIS (SEADOC SOCIETY)
    one grant, 2024 · $36k
  • OS
    OCS SUPPORTING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +6%
  • CJ
    COLLECTIVE JUSTICEFISCAL AGENT RAINIER VALLEY CORPS
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
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
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
2
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
3
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
4
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
5
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
6
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
7
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
8
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
9
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
10
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

—
11
Islandwood

The primary goal is to help children & adults develop a commitment to lifelong learning & environmental and community stewardship through hands-on learning experiences combining science, technology, & the arts at islandwood's 255-acre…

Environment
12
Peninsula College Foundation

Creating access, excellence and success for the peninsula college community by providing funds for students and programs.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Overflow 912. 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

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 108 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
47/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEA DOC SOCIETY: $155,965 · OtherSEA DOC SOCIETYWILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER: $97,000 · OtherWILDLIFE HEALTH CENTERUNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $91,000 · OtherUNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISSEATTLE ACADEMY: $58,000 · OtherSEATTLE ACADEMYUC DAVIS SALISH SEA: $53,334 · OtherUC DAVIS SALISH SEAUC DAVIS (SEADOC SOCIETY): $35,500 · OtherORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK: $31,000 · OtherUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $28,000 · Other+65 more: $204,409 · Other+65 moreSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $330,000 · EducationSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDAT…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $37,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYOCS SUPPORTING FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education+7 more: $19,404 · EducationPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $139,546 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HOUSIN…OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $108,500 · Housing & ShelterOPAL COMMUNITY …JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $15,725 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE WOMEN'S…+1 more: $840 · Housing & ShelterRECOVERY CAFE: $236,446 · HealthRECOVERY CAFE+3 more: $6,250 · HealthORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $134,500 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,400 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $41,450 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP: $5,406 · Arts & CultureCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $3,700 · Arts & CultureGAGE ACADEMY OF ART: $3,012 · Arts & CulturePATH WITH ART: $2,762 · Arts & CultureKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $2,250 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $2,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $29,000 · EnvironmentWildlife Health Center Foundation: $28,500 · Environment+1 more: $1,100 · Environment
Other$754,208Education$432,154Housing & Shelter$264,611Health$242,696Philanthropy$145,900Arts & Culture$64,330Environment$58,600

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 budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE: $236,446 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $139,546 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $134,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetOPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $108,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $41,450 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $37,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK: $31,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $29,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWildlife Health Center Foundation: $28,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $15,725 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOCS SUPPORTING FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $10,350 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM: $10,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE: $10,250 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENGEYE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetRECLAIM: $5,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP: $5,406 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIORS IN SERVICE OF TAMPA BAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOVERFLOW 912: $4,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $3,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $3,023 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGAGE ACADEMY OF ART: $3,012 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPATH WITH ART: $2,762 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOrcas Island Booster Club: $2,300 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $2,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $2,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST LITERACY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORCAS OPEN ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWilliam D Ruckelshaus Center Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $840 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAC PORTLAND: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Health Center Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OCS SUPPORTING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds TEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds ENGEYE INC ↗
  • Who funds RECLAIM ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SENIORS IN SERVICE OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗

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 FoundationOrcas Island Communit…The Norcliffe Foundat…Wyman Youth TrustThe Satterberg Founda…Orcas Bay FoundationSos FoundationJanet Wright Ketcham …Whatley FoundationThe GreerSolien FundSatya and Rao Remala …Moccasin Lake Foundat…
Seattle FoundationWA45.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Orcas Island Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Orcas Bay Foundation · Sos Foundation · Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation · Whatley Foundation · The GreerSolien Fund · Satya and Rao Remala Foundation · Moccasin Lake 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 Donald Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Seniors in Service of Tampa Bay Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Ac Portland: 14% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 108 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home