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Elliott Family Foundation at a glance

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Elliott Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$885kEducation$440kRecreation & Sports$365kPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$63kEnvironment$63kHuman Services$63kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP$2,500
PENINSULA YOUTH ORCHESTRA$2,500
HUNGER INTERVENTION PROGRAM$2,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$2,000
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE DBA UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK$1,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YELM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%YELM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%YELM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%YELM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%YELM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%YELM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $20k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $15k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE DBA UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $10k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $8k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $5k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE DBA UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE DBA UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 11 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$1.9M
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 ServicesPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • SC
    Seattle Children's Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $885k · revenue +190%
  • SB
    SPACE BETWEEN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +96%
  • RM
    R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -10%
  • FH
    Fair Hill Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -92%
  • MP
    MORVEN PARK INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +7%
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
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Siff

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.

Youth Development
3
Stewardship Partners

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,…

Environment
4
University Cooperative School

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.

—
5
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

—
6
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
7
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
8
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
9
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
10
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
11
Seattle Opera

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.

Arts & Culture
12
The Urbanist

Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Seattle Children's Foundation: $885,000 · OtherSeattle Children's FoundationSecond City Chamber Series: $40,000 · Other+3 more: $6,000 · OtherUSEA FOUNDATION: $348,250 · PhilanthropyUSEA FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUN…+1 more: $12,500 · PhilanthropyWALDORF SCHOOL ASSOC OF SEATTLE: $417,000 · EducationWALDORF SCHOOL ASSOC OF …R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $22,500 · EducationSPACE BETWEEN: $62,500 · Human ServicesYELM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $28,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $13,500 · Human ServicesMORVEN PARK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $50,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $22,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED STATES EVENTING ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Arts & CultureInternational Rescue Committee INC: $22,000 · InternationalHunger Intervention Program: $16,500 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$931,000Philanthropy$460,750Education$439,500Human Services$114,000Environment$50,000Arts & Culture$29,500International$22,000Food & Nutrition$21,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $885,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWALDORF SCHOOL ASSOC OF SEATTLE: $417,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetUSEA FOUNDATION: $348,250 over 9y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSPACE BETWEEN: $62,500 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetSecond City Chamber Series: $40,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetYELM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $28,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $22,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPENINSULA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $22,500 over 8y, 15% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHunger Intervention Program: $16,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFair Hill Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMORVEN PARK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED STATES EVENTING ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE: $2,500 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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Employees Community F…The Russell Family Fo…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Medina FoundationLucky Seven FoundationNorthwest Harvest EmmUnited Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Gates FoundationMightycause Charitabl…
Seattle FoundationWA18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Elliott Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elliott Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%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
    1get no government money at all
    8report 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.

    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 20 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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