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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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$26kHealth$26kEducation$20kHuman Services$16kFood & Nutrition$13kYouth Development$8kEmployment$5kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$690k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Wounded Warriors Project$250
Edmonds College Foundation$250
Cocoon House$250
Boys and Girls Clubs of Snohomish C$250
Edmonds Senior Center$250
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $250 → 14%Unbound: $500 → 16%Chelan Valley Hope: $1k → 9%Lady Bug House: $500 → 11%Chelan Valley Hope: $1k → 9%Homage Senior Services: $3k → 17%Homage Senior Services: $1k → 17%Chelan Valley Hope: $500 → 9%Chelan Valley Hope: $500 → 9%Footprints of Fight: $1k → 9%Footprints of Fight: $1k → 9%Chelan Valley Hope: $500 → 9%Chelan Valley Hope: $500 → 9%Cascadia Art Museum: $500 → 9%Edmonds Senior Center: $250 → 9%Edmonds Senior Center: $250 → 9%Cascadia Art Museum: $250 → 9%Next Step Pregnancy Services: $2k → 9%Next Step Pregnancy Services: $2k → 9%Next Step Pregnancy Services: $1k → 9%Homage Senior Services: $1k → 9%Next Step Pregnancy Services: $1k → 9%Next Step Pregnancy Services: $1k → 9%Homage Senior Services: $1k → 9%Next Step Pregnancy Services: $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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$108k · 22 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
16

Total granted

$108k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

73%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationEmploymentOther
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

  • EC
    EDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +20%
  • NS
    Next Step Pregnancy Services
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +34%
  • EF
    EDMONDS FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • HR
    Holy Rosary Catholic School
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • HR
    Holy Rosary Parish School
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • BG
    Boys Girls Clubs of Snohomish Co
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
2
West Seattle Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Nooksack Valley Food Bank Association

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
Snohomish Community Food Bank

To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need

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5
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

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.

Human Services
6
Nourish Pierce County

To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.

—
7
Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition
8
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
9
Puyallup Valley St Francis House

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…

Human Services
10
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
11
Home Court Nw
Recreation & Sports
12
Emergency Management Group - Washington
Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services of Snohomish County; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 41 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Edmonds Historical Society: $20,500 · OtherEdmonds Historical SocietySeattle Children's Hospital: $6,500 · OtherSeattle Children's HospitalDomestic Violence Services DVS: $6,030 · OtherDomestic Violence Services DVSTwo Hearts Pregnancy Services: $6,000 · OtherTwo Hearts Pregnancy ServicesHeifer International: $2,720 · OtherHoly Rosary Catholic School: $2,500 · OtherHoly Rosary Parish School: $2,500 · OtherONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Other+18 more: $16,531 · Other+18 moreNext Step Pregnancy Services: $8,000 · Human ServicesNext Step Pregnancy S…SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $5,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES OF SN…CHELAN VALLEY HOPE: $4,000 · Human ServicesCHELAN VALLEY HOPELADYBUG HOUSE: $2,500 · Human ServicesLADYBUG HOUSEFootprints of Fight: $2,000 · Human ServicesFootprints of Fight+4 more: $2,250 · Human Services+4 moreEDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,250 · EducationEDMONDS COLLE…EDMONDS FOOD BANK: $7,055 · Food & NutritionEDMONDS F…Lake Chelan Food Bank: $4,000 · Food & NutritionLake Chel…WORK OPPORTUNITIES INC: $4,000 · EmploymentEDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,500 · Arts & CultureCLOTHES FOR KIDS: $3,500 · Youth Development
Other$65,781Human Services$24,250Education$15,250Food & Nutrition$11,055Employment$4,000Arts & Culture$3,500Youth Development$3,500

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 budgetEDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNext Step Pregnancy Services: $8,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEDMONDS FOOD BANK: $7,055 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORK OPPORTUNITIES INC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLake Chelan Food Bank: $4,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCHELAN VALLEY HOPE: $4,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLOTHES FOR KIDS: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLADYBUG HOUSE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT ETHIOPIA: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFootprints of Fight: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEUROLOGICAL VOCATIONAL SERVICES: $1,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SOL FLOWER: $520 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $511 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDMONDS SENIOR CENTER: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 WORK OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Lake Chelan Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds CHELAN VALLEY HOPE ↗
  • Who funds EDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CLOTHES FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds LADYBUG HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ETHIOPIA ↗
  • Who funds Footprints of Fight ↗
  • Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEUROLOGICAL VOCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Hubbard Family Founda…Hazel Miller Foundati…Community Foundation …The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Peg and Rick Young Fo…Seattle FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The McNaughton Founda…Anduin FoundationHelen Martha Schiff F…Employees Community F…
Hubbard Family FoundationTX22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to Fahey Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fahey Family 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 41 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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