· Private foundation
Elliott Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SEATTLE WALDORF SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| COLUMBIA LAND TRUST | $50,000 |
| USEA FOUNDATION | $48,250 |
| SECOND CITY CHAMBER SERIES | $5,000 |
| PENINSULA YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP | $2,500 |
| HUNGER INTERVENTION PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE DBA UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCSeattle Children's Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $885k · revenue +190%
- SBSPACE BETWEEN6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +96%
- PYPENINSULA YOUTH ORCHESTRA8× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +399%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -10%
- FHFair Hill Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -92%
- MPMORVEN PARK INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
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.
Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…
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.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
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.…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera. seattle opera is vital to the dynamic cultural and civic life of our region and to the evolution of opera across the world.
Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 20 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOC OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds USEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPACE BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Second City Chamber Series ↗
- Who funds YELM COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Hunger Intervention Program ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Fair Hill Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MORVEN PARK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EVENTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · The Russell Family Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gates Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 Elliott Family 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.
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.