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Fahey Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Edmonds Historical Society | $11,000 |
| One Community Foundation | $2,500 |
| Domestic Violence Services DVS | $1,000 |
| Next Step Pregnancy Services | $1,000 |
| Edmonds Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Two Hearts Pregnancy Services | $500 |
| Work Opportuniesd | $500 |
| Clothes For Kids | $500 |
| Chelan Valley Hope | $500 |
| Chelan Food Bank | $500 |
| Edmonds College Foundation | $250 |
| Cocoon House | $250 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Snohomish C | $250 |
| Edmonds Senior Center | $250 |
| Wounded Warriors Project | $250 |
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 (FY20–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- ECEDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +20%
- NSNext Step Pregnancy Services6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +34%
- EFEDMONDS FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- HRHoly Rosary Parish Schoolone grant, 2024 · $3k
- HRHoly Rosary Catholic Schoolone grant, 2020 · $3k
- BGBoys Girls Clubs of Snohomish Coone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.
Our mission is to provide a variety of food products to families and individuals who are in need. We are open one day a week.
To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need
To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.
To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.
Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.
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…
The Puyallup Valley St. Francis House eases the hardships of low-income households in East Pierce County by providing clothing, food and emergency assistance. To this end, it operates a clothing bank, food pantry, and emergency assistance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services of Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Cascadia Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 41 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 EDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Next Step Pregnancy Services ↗
- Who funds EDMONDS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Lake Chelan Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CHELAN VALLEY HOPE ↗
- Who funds WORK OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds EDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LADYBUG HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ETHIOPIA ↗
- Who funds Footprints of Fight ↗
- Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEUROLOGICAL VOCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASCADIA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOL FLOWER ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds EDMONDS SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Human Life of Washington ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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.
Open a dossier: Hubbard Family Foundation · Hazel Miller Foundation · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Peg and Rick Young Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The McNaughton Foundation · Anduin Foundation · Helen Martha Schiff Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound
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 Fahey 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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