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Edwin & Elayne Gross Charitable Fnd

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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Health$10kInternational$4kAnimals$4kCivil Rights$4kEducation$3kArts & Culture$3kEnvironment$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$400
Median grant
7
States reached
$68k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND$1,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL FOUNDATION$825
COLINK$825
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$650
350ORG$414
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$414
WOODLAND PARK ZOO$400
EDMONDS FOOD BANK$400
SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY$300
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$250
SEATTLE RECONOMY$200
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE$200
BERKSHIRE SCHOOL$200
MUKILTEO FOOD BANK$200
HEAD COUNT INC$200
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%BERKSHIRE SCHOOL: $250 → 12%Planned Parenthood Action Fund: $300 → 8%10000 Degrees: $300 → 8%DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE: $551 → 10%GIFFORDS LAW CENTER: $250 → 10%CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $350 → 12%WRAAP: $600 → 14%Leukemia Lymphoma Society: $1k → 9%Planned Parenthood: $400 → 17%KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND: $1k → 13%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US: $300 → 14%THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CNTR: $737 → 18%St Jude Childrens Research Hospital: $800 → 17%SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FNDTN: $400 → 9%EDMONDS FOOD BANK: $400 → 9%LAKE FOREST COLLEGE: $250 → 8%American Lung Association: $400 → 14%Mental Health America: $400 → 9%Earth Island Institute: $400 → 10%TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY: $300 → 10%WRAAP: $500 → 14%Leukemia Lymphoma Society: $400 → 9%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $500 → 17%ST JUDE CHILDRENS: $700 → 17%SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $300 → 9%IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $300 → 9%ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $1k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERICA: $474 → 14%COLINK: $825 → 9%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500 → 17%ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARC HOSPITAL: $700 → 17%SEATTLE RECONOMY: $250 → 9%IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $300 → 9%Watering Minds: $400 → 10%SIMON WIESENTHAL FOUNDATION: $825 → 14%COLINK: $737 → 9%Breast Cancer Research Foundation: $300 → 17%HEAD COUNT INC: $250 → 17%MUKILTEO FOOD BANK: $235 → 9%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $650 → 14%HEAD COUNT INC: $250 → 17%WOODLAND PARK ZOO: $462 → 9%WOODLAND PARK ZOO: $437 → 9%WOODLAND PARK ZOO: $400 → 9%HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FNDTN: $300 → 8%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $414 → 17%WOODLAND PARK ZOO: $300 → 9%Enviromental Defense: $400 → 17%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
TX

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20k · 21 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
36

Total granted

$20k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+5%

Still filing today

90%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% 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
HealthAnimalsCivil RightsInternationalEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • WP
    WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +30%
  • C
    CoLink
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +6%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -24%
  • CHARITY GLOBAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $932 · revenue -2%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $737 · revenue +16%

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
9
Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
10
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Watering Minds 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 backsteadyJewish Community FederationsChristian Missionary Organi…Pregnancy Support ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceGovernment Accountability R…Community Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-8 SchoolsLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Community Health CentersAnimal Rescue and AdoptionWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Education Equity LeadershipFallen First Responder Supp…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Substance Abuse TreatmentLand Conservation Organizat…Cancer Support Organizations
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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/52
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,513

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 67 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
35/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WRAAP — $1,100 · OtherWRAAPACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $1,050 · OtherACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICEKERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND — $1,000 · OtherKERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUNDSIMON WIESENTHAL FOUNDATION — $825 · OtherST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARC HOSPITAL — $700 · OtherPAWS — $650 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $600 · OtherMukilteo Food Bank — $835 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $737 · OtherCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $932 · OtherCHARITY GLOBAL INCIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $728 · Other+23 more — $7,680 · Other+23 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,600 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S …PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $650 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER A…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOC…CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $500 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC …CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $500 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INS…SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $400 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CEN…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $400 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOC…+3 more — $511 · Health+3 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,737 · InternationalAMERICAN FR…CoLink — $1,562 · InternationalCoLinkSave The Children Federation Inc — $500 · InternationalSave The Ch…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $200 · InternationalWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,799 · AnimalsWOODLAND P…Wildlife Conservation Society — $600 · AnimalsWildlife C…Humane World for Animals Inc — $500 · AnimalsHumane Wor…THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $300 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE…AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $200 · AnimalsAFRICAN WI…Lake Forest College — $1,150 · EducationTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC — $1,150 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $300 · Education10000 DEGREES — $300 · EducationHEAD COUNT INC — $900 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $632 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $523 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $250 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $100 · Civil Rights350ORG — $814 · EnvironmentSEATTLE RECONOMY — $650 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION NW — $466 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc — $400 · Environment
Other$16,837Health$6,561International$3,999Animals$3,399Education$2,900Civil Rights$2,405Environment$2,330

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 budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,799 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,737 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoLink — $1,562 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest College — $1,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC — $1,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $932 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC — $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMukilteo Food Bank — $835 over 4y, 0.2% of budget350ORG — $814 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $737 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $728 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE RECONOMY — $650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $632 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE — $551 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $523 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION NW — $466 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDMONDS FOOD BANK — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERING MINDS INC — $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay — $316 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELONG MEDICAL CARE — $211 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $200 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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Edwin & Elayne Gross Charitable Fnd 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–40%
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.

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 67 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.

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