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Excel at Sports 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.
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 $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP KOREY | $34,593 |
| CROSSFIRE FOUNDATION | $20,960 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $15,000 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST SOCCER CLUB | $5,000 |
| EASTSIDE FOOTBALL CLUB | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON STATE LEGENDS OF SOCCER | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +7% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- CKCAMP KOREY3× · 2023–2025 · $105k · revenue +13%
- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITY MENS SOCCER TEAM2× · 2017–2018 · $75k
- CFCrossfire Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue -1%
Funded once
- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT (MEN'S SOCCER)one grant, 2022 · $20k
- SPSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT (MEN'S SOCCER)one grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Northwest United is a premier youth soccer club serving Skagit County and surrounding areas. As one of the top clubs in the Pacific Northwest, we have grown to 41 teams across boys and girls' divisions, offering year-round development for…
Soccer club that brings premier and select teams under one management. league play and academy training for all players.
To provide opportunities for all youths under the age of 19 develop character and play affiliated soccer at a level commensurate with their ability and interest.
Emerald City Football Club fields boys and girls soccer teams ages 6 through 18 and educates them in the rules of play, sportsmanship and teamwork. The club provides coaches, insurance, referees, minor equipment, uniforms, training, club…
To enrich the lives of our community by providing an environment that promotes positive development of all ages.
Develop young people for the challenges and opportunities of life through the game of soccer.
The Nortac Soccer Club is a non-profit youth soccer organization located in Tacoma, WA. Our goal is to teach and develop a "love of the game" of soccer among our youth. We offer a variety of recreational and competitive soccer programs…
It is the mission of washington youth soccer to foster the physical, mental and emotional growth and development of the state of washington's youth through the sport of soccer at all levels of age and competition.
To provide organized soccer for the youth of snohomish and king county.
The mission of the Greater Seattle Soccer League is to promote adult team soccer play by providing an enjoyable and competitive playing experience at all skill levels with safety, schedule reliability, quality refereeing, and professional…
Issaquah FC is focused on providing a fun and safe soccer environment for boys and girls, ages 5 through 18, to play the game and develop soccer skills. Issaquah FC operates in the geographic footprint of the Issaquah School District, and…
To provide opportunities for all youths under the age of 19 to develop character and play affiliated soccer at a level commensurate with their ability and interest.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacific Northwest Soccer Club and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 CAMP KOREY ↗
- Who funds Crossfire Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Washington State Legends of Soccer ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Pacific Northwest Soccer Club ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE FOOTBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOT SOCCER INC ↗
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.
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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 Excel at Sports 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.
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