· Private foundation
Fosseen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFE PASSAGES | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HUMAN GOOD FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| 4 A BETTER HAVASU | $20,000 |
| THIRD AVENUE MARKET PLACE | $12,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHWEST | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| WOMEN HELPING WOMEN | $6,000 |
| VANESSA BEHAN CRISIS NURSERY | $6,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF INLAND NORTHWEST | $5,500 |
| SPOKESMAN REVIEW CHRISTMAS BUREAU | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN BOXER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD - SPOKANE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PHPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES8× · 2017–2024 · $139k · revenue +196%
- PFPOST FALLS FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2023 · $33k · revenue +7%
Women Helping Women Fund7× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- HCHAVASU COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +596%
Indiana University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +41%- RFROTARY FOUNDATION - LAKE HAVASUone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The mission of the Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS Health) is to improve the overall health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
To fund the program and services of hospice of the nothwest to ensure dignified and compassionate care is available to anyone coping with a life-limiting diagnosis.one size doesn't always fit all, especially when it comes to quality of…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
The sophia way is a place of hope and change for women. we support them on their journey from homelessness to safe and stable living.
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.
The mission of Spokane Public Radio is to provide high-quality, artistic, educational and informational radio programming, which enhances and enlivens the cultural life and civic discourse of its listening communities. Spokane Public Radio…
To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rayce Rudeen Foundation. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 71 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW ↗
- Who funds HUMANGOOD FOUNDATION WEST ↗
- Who funds POST FALLS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds Women Helping Women Fund ↗
- Who funds VANESSA BEHAN ↗
- Who funds WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAVASU COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Spokane Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Rayce Rudeen Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BEAUTY SHARE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation · Women Helping Women Fund · Numerica Credit Union · Multicare Health System · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · The Bergquist Foundation Attn Eric Sachtjen
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 Fosseen 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
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.