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Fales Foundation Trust at a glance

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

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON$10,000
MARYS PLACE$10,000
YWCA SEATTLEKINGSNOHOMISH$10,000
CONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS$10,000
COYOTE CENTRAL$8,000
SEATTLE EDUCATION ACCESS$7,500
NORTHWEST SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND HARDOF$5,000
IMAGINE HOUSING$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SEATTLE$5,000
STREET YOUTH MINISTRIES$5,000
PEDIATRIC INTERIM CARE CENTER INC$5,000
PONGO POETRY PROJECT$5,000
ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME$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.

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Its 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 its 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%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $3k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $5k → 9%COMMUNITIES OF BELONGING: $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%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 9%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 9%REFUGEE WOMENS ALLIANCE: $3k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 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
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+9%
+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
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

  • F
    FAMILYWORKS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $74k · revenue +50%
  • MP
    Maris Place
    2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +42%
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BO
    BREAD OF LIFE MISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • YS
    YWCA SEATTLE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +2%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm; 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.
04the grantee network

119 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. 119 of the 141 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/119
Grantees still filing
81/119
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 SOCIETYBREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE MISSIONElizabeth Home: $10,000 · Human ServicesElizabeth HomeTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTI…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICELAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS: $10,000 · Human ServicesLAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDI…WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVI…VINE MAPLE PLACE: $10,000 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE PLACEOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION NIGHTWATCH IN…PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES …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 & CultureTEENTIXSeattle Chamber Music Festival: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSeattle C…GAGE ACADEMY OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGAGE ACAD…KEY TO CHANGE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureKEY TO CH…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 & CultureTED BROWN MUSIC OUTREACH: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFREEHOLD THEATRE LAB STUDIO: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHistorical Society of Seattle & King County dba Museum of History & Industry: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground Washington: $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 DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $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 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 budgetFAMILYWORKS: $74,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOYOTE CENTRAL: $16,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetHunger Intervention Program: $14,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPongo Publishing Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetElizabeth Home: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH IN FOCUS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTIONS: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER: $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRICHARD HUGO HOUSE: $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Roots Housing Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEENTIX: $7,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSEATTLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUR MONEY MATTERS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Chamber Music Festival: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA PIERCE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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

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 Fales Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fales Foundation Trust. 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%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
    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.

    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 141 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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.

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