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Doris E Snyder Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$200k
Granted FY2020
12
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Arts & Culture$230kReligion$130kEducation$125kHuman Services$95kCivil Rights$30kFood & Nutrition$15kAnimals$10kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2020 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$288k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARY'S PLACE$70,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
ETHNOS 360$30,000
FAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER$20,000
THRIVE MINISTRIES$10,000
WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK$7,500
WEST SEATTLE FOOD BANK$7,500
WESTSIDE BABY$5,000
FARE START$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $85k) 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.

area typical 7%FAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER: $20k → 9%FAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER: $20k → 9%FAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER: $20k → 9%FAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER: $20k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$640k · 8 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$640k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+1%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

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

  • MP
    Maris Place
    4× · 2017–2020 · $230k · revenue +80% · 34% of their budget
  • TM
    THRIVE MINISTRIES
    4× · 2017–2020 · $130k
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $95k

Funded once

  • MA
    Morningside Academy
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +1%

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

04Your field

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.

1
West Seattle Helpline

Rent and Utility Assistance: We keep West Seattle and White Center residents safely housed through short-term funding for rent, deposits, and utilities. Bus Tickets: We get our neighbors where they need to go with one-month booklets of bus…

2
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

3
EastWest Food Rescue

Supporting farmers and caringly feeding our neighbors in need.

Food & Nutrition
4
Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen

We help meet the nutritional and social needs of low-income women and children in Spokane County by providing healthy meals at no charge at the restaurant and through partner agencies.

5
Renewal Food Bank

Renewal Food Bank provides food to needy and economically vulnerable individuals who live in Bellevue, Washington and surrounding communities

Human Services
6
Wayside Food Programs

The mission of Wayside is to increase access to food for those in need in Southern Maine by providing a system for community based volunteers who serve prepared meals where such meals are needed, and by collaborating with other hunger…

Food & Nutrition
7
Refugee Womens Alliance

ReWA is a non-profit, multi-ethnic organization that promotes inclusion, independence, personal leadership, and strong communities by providing refugee and immigrant women and their families with culturally and linguistically appropriate…

Human Services
8
World Arts West

Founded in 1978, World Arts West is a nationally-recognized leader in advocating for cultural arts communities. Serving the largest multicultural dance and music network in the United States, we are a wraparound cultural artist service…

Arts & Culture
9
West Florida Foster Care Services

Faith based organization providing foster care recruitment, training, licensing, and support to its foster parents and families throughout Hillsborough County and the surrounding areas.

Religion
10
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
11
Haiti Babi

Haiti Babi is a not for profit social enterprise that employs mothers in Haiti to knit and crochet high quality artisanal baby products. One in ten children in Haiti lives in an orphanage and 80% of those children have living parents who…

12
FamilyWise Services

Strengthening families by promoting the safety, stability and wellbeing of children.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farestart and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Animals Foundation. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THRIVE MINISTRIES — $130,000 · OtherTHRIVE MINISTRIESJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL — $95,000 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientETHNOS360 INC — $30,000 · OtherETHNOS360 INC+4 more — $32,500 · Other+4 moreMaris Place — $230,000 · Youth DevelopmentMaris PlaceFAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER — $80,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RENEWA…WESTSIDE BABY — $5,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABYEXPLORER WEST AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationFriends of the Animals Foundation — $10,000 · AnimalsWest Seattle Food Bank — $7,500 · Food & NutritionFARESTART — $5,000 · Employment
Other$352,500Youth Development$230,000Human Services$85,000Education$20,000Animals$10,000Food & Nutrition$7,500Employment$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMaris Place — $230,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetFAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER — $80,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetEXPLORER WEST AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARESTART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Maris Place
  • Who funds FAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER
  • Who funds EXPLORER WEST AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE SCHOOL
  • Who funds Morningside Academy
  • Who funds Friends of the Animals Foundation
  • Who funds WHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK
  • Who funds West Seattle Food Bank
  • Who funds WESTSIDE BABY
  • Who funds FARESTART

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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Sbw Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Doris E Snyder 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Doris E Snyder Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Doris E Snyder 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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