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East Seattle 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.

$494k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$2.3MYouth Development$338kHealth$316kHuman Services$308kHousing & Shelter$92kInternational$85kCrime & Legal$75kRecreation & Sports$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $238k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRISTO REY SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$88,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$50,000
GARAGE A TEEN CAFE$40,000
YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED$40,000
RAINIER ATHLETES$35,000
NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS$25,000
KINDERING$25,000
COCOON HOUSE$10,000
THE SERVICE BOARD$10,000
KINDERING$10,000
EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE$10,000
ADOPTEE MENTORING SOCIETY$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FDN$2,600
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $2k → 10%RYAN'S HOUSE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 7%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $27k → 12%ADOPTEE MENTORING SOCIETY: $10k → 9%SKOOKUM KIDS: $29k → 12%SOUND GENERATION: $2k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $2k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $7k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%ADOPTEE MENTORING SOCIETY: $2k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $1k → 9%SNO-VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS: $2k → 9%FREE2LUV: $2k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $1k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $20k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $2k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $3k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $3k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $2k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $5k → 9%ADOPTEE MENTORING SOCIETY: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $2k → 9%HORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $1k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $2k → 9%CHINESE INFORAMTION AND SERVICE CEN: $10k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $2k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of East Seattle Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 94% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

East Seattle Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 36 repeat orgs$490k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
59

Total granted

$3.2M
$431k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+19%

Still filing today

75%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $902k · revenue +46%
  • SU
    SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $608k · revenue +58%
  • YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED
    3× · 2021–2025 · $76k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • P(
    PEPS (PAT PROGRAM)
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • SK
    Skookum Kidsgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue +32%

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
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
2
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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3
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
4
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
5
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
6
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
7
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
8
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
9
Transitions

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

Human Services
10
Youth Eastside Services

Youth Eastside Services (YES) is a lifeline for kids and families coping with challenges such as emotional distress, substance abuse, and violence. Through intervention, outreach and prevention, YES build confidence and responsibility,…

Health
11
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
12
Washington School-Based Health Alliance

Advance and advocate for school-based health care, working with communities and partners to achieve equity in health and educational opportunity for children and youth statewide.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Asheville Farmstead School Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent Schools and Ear…Supportive Housing & Servic…Pacific Northwest Conservat…Faith-Based Health SystemsYouth Summer CampsFamily FoundationsImmigrant & Refugee Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr12%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr12%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/84
the rest of the field
13%
2,270/17,100

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.

05the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 112 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/83
Grantees still filing
58/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $608,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUND — $300,000 · OtherWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDHEADSTRONG — $225,000 · OtherHEADSTRONGAMARA PARENTING & ADOPTION SERVICES — $130,000 · OtherAMARA PARENTING & ADOPTION SERVICESCHRISTO REY SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOL — $100,000 · OtherCHRISTO REY SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOL+55 more — $414,050 · Other+55 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $901,765 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONCristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School — $107,000 · EducationCristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High SchoolAsheville Farmstead School Inc — $62,500 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS — $59,500 · EducationSawhorse Revolution — $42,000 · Education+8 more — $42,000 · EducationYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED — $76,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Service Board — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Garage A Teen Cafe — $49,000 · Youth DevelopmentRAINIER ATHLETES — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT — $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentYou Grow Girl — $12,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentEileen & Callies Place — $31,000 · Human ServicesSkookum Kids — $29,070 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $27,000 · Human ServicesAdoptee Mentoring Society — $22,000 · Human ServicesPowerful Voices — $20,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABY — $13,000 · Human ServicesHORN OF AFRICA SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesChinese Information and Service Center — $10,000 · Human ServicesURBAN FAMILY CENTER ASSOCIATION URBAN FAMILY — $10,000 · Human ServicesKIDVANTAGE — $9,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE — $8,500 · Human Services+11 more — $27,500 · Human ServicesLEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN — $75,000 · Crime & LegalVANESSA BEHAN — $8,000 · Crime & LegalMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL — $66,000 · International+1 more — $2,000 · InternationalCOCOON HOUSE — $62,000 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $2,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,777,050Education$1,214,765Youth Development$253,500Human Services$217,070Crime & Legal$83,000International$68,000Housing & Shelter$66,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $901,765 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $608,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School — $107,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED — $76,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN — $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL — $66,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAsheville Farmstead School Inc — $62,500 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $62,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS — $59,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Service Board — $55,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetThe Garage A Teen Cafe — $49,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetSawhorse Revolution — $42,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetKINDERING CENTER — $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEileen & Callies Place — $31,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetSkookum Kids — $29,070 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $27,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENCOMPASS NORTHWEST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT — $23,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetAdoptee Mentoring Society — $22,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetPowerful Voices — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION — $14,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY — $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYou Grow Girl — $12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDenise Louie Education center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORN OF AFRICA SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChinese Information and Service Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN FAMILY CENTER ASSOCIATION URBAN FAMILY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDVANTAGE — $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmpower Youth Network — $9,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTHCARE — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVANESSA BEHAN — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFARESTART — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION NW — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for Education — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSNO-VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM — $2,000 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.

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Medina FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…M J Murdock Charitabl…Ellison FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Lucky Seven FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Garneau Nicon Family …
Seattle FoundationWA76.7× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · School's Out Washington · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Ellison Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Lucky Seven Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Garneau Nicon Family 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 East Seattle 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 East Seattle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to East Seattle 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 112 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines