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Eleanor Anne Bustanoby-Keane 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.

$253k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$194k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$221kHousing & Shelter$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kHuman Services$6kInternational$5kEnvironment$4kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $194k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$30k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEACON FOR LIFE$194,000
DEMENTIA SUPPORT NORTHWEST$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$8,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN WHATCOM$8,000
AARP FOUNDATION$2,000
LIGHT HOUSE MISSION$2,000
LUMMI ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST$2,000
SALVATION ARMY$2,000
LYDIA PLACE$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS$2,000
BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN$500
Individual grant recipient$500
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 (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 12%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 12%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 12%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
NY
MA
IA
CA
DC
LA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$260k · 10 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$260k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+67%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
Human ServicesInternationalHealthEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • BF
    BEACON FOR LIFE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +36%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +46%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • DIRECT RELIEFgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +67%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • TS
    THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +21%
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
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
2
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
3
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc

The alzheimer's association leads the way to end alzheimer's and all other dementia - by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support.

Health
4
Healthpoint

Healthpoint strengthens communities and improves people's health by delivering quality services, breaking down barriers and providing access to all.

Health
5
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

Accelerate the discovery of drugs to prevent, treat and cure alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Social Science
6
Bellevue Fire Foundation

To support Bellevue's firefighters and paramedics in protecting life, property, and the environment by providing equipment, training, and other programs beyond city resources.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Renewal Food Bank

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

Human Services
8
Banner Health Foundation

Established in 2001, banner health foundation secures and stewards charitable contributions to advance banner health's mission, investing in facilities and programs that support advancements in care, research, medical education, patient…

Health
9
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
10
The Arc Tampa Bay Foundation Inc

To secure the financial future of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities served by the arc tampa bay, inc. (continued on schedule o)this mission is accomplished through a comprehensive plan of building…

Human Services
11
Bremerton Foodline

Our mission is to provide food and referral services at no cost in a caring and respectful manner to those in need. We strive to eliminate hunger and restore the quality of life in our clients.

—
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer Society of Washington. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEACON FOR LIFE: $200,000 · HealthBEACON FOR LIFEAlzheimer Society of Washington: $21,000 · OtherAlzheimer Society of …Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN WHATCOM: $9,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY …LYDIA PLACE: $3,500 · OtherLYDIA PLACESALVATION ARMY: $3,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYLIGHT HOUSE MISSION: $3,000 · OtherLIGHT HOUSE MISSION+3 more: $2,250 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,250 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesBLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $1,000 · InternationalLummi Island Heritage Trust: $4,000 · EnvironmentTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$200,000Other$51,750Human Services$14,250International$5,000Environment$4,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEACON FOR LIFE: $200,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Washington: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLummi Island Heritage Trust: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLYDIA PLACE: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Whatcom Community FoundationWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whatcom Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Eleanor Anne Bustanoby-Keane Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eleanor Anne Bustanoby-Keane Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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
    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

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    How do I get to Eleanor Anne Bustanoby-Keane Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Eleanor Anne Bustanoby-Keane 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 17 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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