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Fosseen Foundation at a glance

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Fosseen Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$185k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$396kHousing & Shelter$291kHealth$163kPhilanthropy$120kFood & Nutrition$101kYouth Development$79kArts & Culture$77kAnimals$61kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
$5,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$732k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFE PASSAGES$25,000
4 A BETTER HAVASU$20,000
SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
HUMAN GOOD FOUNDATION$20,000
THIRD AVENUE MARKET PLACE$12,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHWEST$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$10,000
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN$6,000
VANESSA BEHAN CRISIS NURSERY$6,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF INLAND NORTHWEST$5,500
AMERICAN BOXER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$5,000
LIBERTY LAKE CENTENNIAL ROTARY$5,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
SPOKESMAN REVIEW CHRISTMAS BUREAU$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HUMAN GOOD FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%HUMAN GOOD FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $6k → 12%HUMAN GOOD FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $6k → 12%PROJECT BEAUTY SHARE: $5k → 12%HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $5k → 12%HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $3k → 12%HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $2k → 12%HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $2k → 12%PROJECT BEAUTY SHARE: $2k → 12%HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $1k → 12%HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $1k → 12%HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $1k → 12%CANCER CARE NORTHWEST FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%RAYCE RUDEEN FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%RAYCE RUDEEN FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%RAYCE RUDEEN FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE: $2k → 12%BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE: $2k → 12%BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE: $5k → 12%BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE: $4k → 12%BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE: $4k → 12%BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE: $2k → 12%BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE: $2k → 12%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
NY
OR
IN
CA
MD
AZ
TN
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 47 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
20

Total granted

$1.3M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+41%

Still filing today

38%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • PH
    PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $139k · revenue +196%
  • BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW
    7× · 2018–2025 · $72k · revenue +9%
  • PF
    POST FALLS FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2023 · $33k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • HC
    HAVASU COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +596%
  • Indiana University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +41%
  • RF
    ROTARY FOUNDATION - LAKE HAVASU
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Spokane Parks Foundation

The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.

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2
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
3
Community Health Association of Spokane

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.

Health
4
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
5
Portland Public Library

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…

Education
6
Skagit Hospice Foundation

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…

Health
7
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
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
The Sophia Way

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.

Human Services
10
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
11
Spokane Public Radio

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…

Arts & Culture
12
North Olympic Healthcare Network

To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
17/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

4 A BETTER HAVASU INC: $179,000 · Other4 A BETTER HAVASU INCTERRACES OF PHOENIX FOUNDATION: $95,000 · OtherTERRACES OF PHOENIX FOUNDATIONROTARY FOUNDATION - SPOKANE: $75,000 · OtherROTARY FOUNDATION - SPOKANECHILDREN'S VILLAGE OF CD'A: $64,125 · OtherCHILDREN'S VILLAGE OF CD'AUNION GOSPEL MISSION WOMENS & CHILDREN CENTER - C D'A: $61,375 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION WOMENS & CHILDREN CENTER - C D'AFIRST TEE: $47,500 · OtherAMERICAN BOXER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $43,500 · Other+48 more: $517,750 · Other+48 morePLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $138,750 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH H…HUMANGOOD FOUNDATION WEST: $57,500 · Human ServicesHUMANGOOD…HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $26,250 · Human ServicesHOSPICE O…BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE: $20,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS…Rayce Rudeen Foundation: $11,750 · Human ServicesRayce Rud…PROJECT BEAUTY SHARE: $7,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT B…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW: $71,750 · Youth DevelopmentNortheast Youth Center: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: $20,000 · EducationIndiana University Foundation: $12,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthMADDIE'S PLACE: $3,000 · HealthVANESSA BEHAN: $20,750 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,083,250Housing & Shelter$138,750Human Services$123,500Youth Development$75,250Education$33,000Health$23,000Crime & Legal$20,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $138,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW: $71,750 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetHUMANGOOD FOUNDATION WEST: $57,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPOST FALLS FOOD BANK: $33,125 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $26,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWomen Helping Women Fund: $24,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetVANESSA BEHAN: $20,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAVASU COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE: $20,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSpokane Symphony Society: $15,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRayce Rudeen Foundation: $11,750 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE HAVASU CITY COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATIONINC: $7,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPROJECT BEAUTY SHARE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpokane Humane Society: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNortheast Youth Center: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMADDIE'S PLACE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKOOTENAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON DOG RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER CARE NORTHWEST FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSMART READING: $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.

  • 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 HAVASU COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS ↗
  • Who funds Spokane Symphony Society ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Rayce Rudeen Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE HAVASU CITY COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATIONINC ↗

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 Avista FoundationInnovia FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Roy and Leona Nelson …Women Helping Women F…Numerica Credit UnionMulticare Health Syst…Providence Health & S…Lamb Weston Charitabl…The Bergquist Foundat…
The Avista FoundationWA31.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 71 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home