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Fairview Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
NY
MA
CA
UT
NC
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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.

—
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 34 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $300,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $300,000 · Community ImprovementA 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$555,000Housing & Shelter$300,000Community Improvement$300,000Health$136,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative: $300,000 over 3y, 18% 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 budgetACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVASHON ALLIED ARTS: $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetA Cure in Sight: $75,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSEATTLE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTSFUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEST VILLAGE NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,000 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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