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Fales Foundation Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$320k
Granted FY2023
51
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2021–2026.

Housing & Shelter$176kHuman Services$148kFood & Nutrition$145kArts & Culture$115kYouth Development$105kHealth$54kEducation$41kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2023 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k45 grants · $205k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY WORKS$65,500
MARYS PLACE$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON$10,000
YWCA SEATTLEKINGSNOHOMISH$10,000
YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE$10,000
CONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS$10,000
COYOTE CENTRAL$8,000
SEATTLE EDUCATION ACCESS$7,500
PEDIATRIC INTERIM CARE CENTER INC$5,000
SEATTLE HUMANE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WEST SEATTLE FOOD BANK$5,000
TEENTIX$5,000
IMAGINE HOUSING$5,000
SOLID GROUND$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OFFICE MOMS & DADS: $5k → 9%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL: $5k → 11%HOMAGE: $3k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $3k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $3k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SEATTLE: $5k → 9%THE WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 9%MILLIONAIR CLUB CHARITY: $5k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $2k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $2k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $2k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $3k → 9%COMMUNITIES OF BELONGING: $3k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $5k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $5k → 9%NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY SOCIETY: $3k → 9%LAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 9%LAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 9%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 9%REFUGEE WOMENS ALLIANCE: $3k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $3k → 9%REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT: $3k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $3k → 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.

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$415k · 34 repeat orgs$445k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
85

Total granted

$415k
$336k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+18%

Still filing today

88%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

  • F
    FAMILYWORKS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $74k · revenue +178%
  • MP
    Maris Place
    2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +42%
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • YS
    YWCA SEATTLE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • BO
    BREAD OF LIFE MISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +6%

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
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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2
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
3
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
4
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
5
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
6
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
7
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
8
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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9
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
10
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
11
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
12
Downtown Emergency Service Center

DESC helps people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is Teentix. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySeattle Regional Cultural &…International Development a…Family Philanthropic Founda…Healthcare & Health Equity …Youth Support & Family Serv…Independent Elementary Scho…Immigrant & Refugee Communi…Professional Live Theatre &…Youth Music Education & Per…Supportive Housing & Servic…Food Banks and Hunger Relief
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr19%42%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/120
the rest of the field
14%
1,717/12,619

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

119 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. 119 of the 141 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/119
Grantees still filing
81/119
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW BEGINNINGS — $15,000 · OtherHunger Intervention Program — $14,500 · Other+68 more — $320,000 · Other+68 moreTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY — $10,500 · Human ServicesTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETYJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICEWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVI…VINE MAPLE PLACE — $10,000 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE PLACETHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTI…PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES …Elizabeth Home — $10,000 · Human ServicesElizabeth HomeLAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS — $10,000 · Human ServicesLAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDI…BREAD OF LIFE MISSION — $10,000 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE MISSIONOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION NIGHTWATCH IN…Refugee Womens Alliance — $7,500 · Human Services+19 more — $69,500 · Human Services+19 moreFAMILYWORKS — $74,000 · Community ImprovementFAMILYWORK…SOUTHEAST EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT — $5,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEAST …Phinney Neighborhood Association — $3,000 · Community ImprovementSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $13,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE R…RICHARD HUGO HOUSE — $8,500 · Arts & CultureRICHARD H…TEENTIX — $7,500 · Arts & CultureTEENTIXKEY TO CHANGE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureKEY TO CH…Seattle Chamber Music Festival — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSeattle C…GAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $5,000 · Arts & CultureGAGE ACAD…Seattle JazzED — $4,000 · Arts & CultureSeattle J…SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES — $4,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE A…Arts West — $3,000 · Arts & CultureWING-IT PRODUCTIONS — $3,000 · Arts & CultureFREEHOLD THEATRE LAB STUDIO — $2,500 · Arts & CultureTED BROWN MUSIC OUTREACH — $2,500 · Arts & CultureHistorical Society of Seattle & King County dba Museum of History & Industry — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureSolid Ground Washington — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $12,000 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $8,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterMaris Place — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPongo Publishing Inc — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH IN FOCUS — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREY — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOYOTE CENTRAL — $16,000 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS — $7,500 · EducationYOUR MONEY MATTERS — $6,000 · EducationSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · EducationNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON — $4,000 · EducationJubilee REACH — $3,000 · EducationDenise Louie Education center — $2,500 · EducationARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING — $2,000 · EducationHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $2,000 · Education
Other$349,500Human Services$177,500Community Improvement$82,000Arts & Culture$68,500Housing & Shelter$65,500Youth Development$63,000Education$53,000

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 budgetFAMILYWORKS — $74,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOYOTE CENTRAL — $16,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMaris Place — $15,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSolid Ground Washington — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHunger Intervention Program — $14,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPongo Publishing Inc — $13,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY — $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH IN FOCUS — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElizabeth Home — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE MISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTIONS — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD HUGO HOUSE — $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Roots Housing Foundation — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEENTIX — $7,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUR MONEY MATTERS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CENTER FOR THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Helpline — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEY TO CHANGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPLIFT NORTHWEST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSeattle Chamber Music Festival — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Medina FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Lucky Seven FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Garneau Nicon Family …Kawabe Memorial FundEmployees Community F…Washington Federal Fo…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA139.5× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Kawabe Memorial Fund · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Washington Federal 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 Fales Foundation Trust 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    71report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 141 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $360k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

    Source object · view filing

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