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Fairview Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$32MArts & Culture$6.0MHuman Services$665kRecreation & Sports$550kInternational$325kHousing & Shelter$300kEnvironment$150kHealth$136kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 100% of reported assets are held in Investment Securities Remote Medicine Inc.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET$1,075,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$500,000
FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT PARK$100,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOL$45,000
HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $555k) 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.

area typical 10%SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $225k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $100k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $100k → 9%SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $100k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
MT
NY
MA
CA
UT
NC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$39M · 14 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
19

Total granted

$39M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $31M · revenue +46%
  • PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +2%
  • SA
    SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • UP
    UNIVERSITY PREP
    one grant, 2021 · $505k
  • TS
    THE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $450k · revenue +85%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN
    one grant, 2022 · $250k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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.

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2
The Island School

The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.

Education
3
Rainier Prep

Rainier prep provides public education to students in grades 5-8 in the highline area near seattle/tacoma. rainier prep seeks to prepare students for college, career readiness, and to become leaders in their communities.

Education
4
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
5
Waldorf School Assoc of Seattle

The seattle waldorf school mission is: daily we strive to inspire learning, courage, and joy in the developing human being.

Education
6
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment

We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.

Education
7
Spruce Street School

Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…

Education
8
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
9
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
10
Washington Society of Certified Public a

We are a community of cpas and financial professionals cultivating authentic relationships, unique learning experiences, and purposeful advocacy for our future.

—
11
The University of British Columbia

Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.

Education
12
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences and the most unlike its peers is Idaho Base Camp Inc. 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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr12%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%1%20–35yr11%94%35–55yr12%2%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
15%
11,991/81,979

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $30,525,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION+7 more — $1,155,500 · EducationPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION — $4,616,528 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHW…SEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $500,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MU…+3 more — $160,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE SYMPHONY — $683,333 · OtherUNIVERSITY PREP — $505,000 · OtherCHILDHAVEN — $410,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN — $250,000 · OtherIDAHO BASE CAMP INC — $100,000 · Other+8 more — $186,000 · OtherRwanda Girls Initiative — $300,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER — $255,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT — $300,000 · Community ImprovementPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $300,000 · Housing & ShelterA Cure in Sight — $75,000 · HealthNorthwest Parkinsons Foundation — $50,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · Health
Education$31,680,500Arts & Culture$5,276,528Other$2,134,333Human Services$555,000Community Improvement$300,000Housing & Shelter$300,000Health$136,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $30,525,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION — $4,616,528 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $450,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDHAVEN — $410,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative — $300,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT — $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER — $255,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetIDAHO BASE CAMP INC — $100,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetVASHON ALLIED ARTS — $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetA Cure in Sight — $75,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSEATTLE DANCE COLLECTIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTSFUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VILLAGE NURSERY SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEPIPHANY SCHOOL — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Grousemont FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Seattle FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Norcliffe Foundat…Lucky Seven FoundationBny Mellon Charitable…Joshua Green Foundati…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Janet Wright Ketcham …Wyman Youth TrustReal Progress Foundat…
Grousemont FoundationWA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grousemont Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Joshua Green Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Real Progress 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 Fairview 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fairview Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fairview 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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