· Public charity
Foundation House at Northgate
The organization's mission was to provide independent and assisted living housing for seniors.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE JAZZ FELLOWSHIP | $15,000 |
| SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER | $15,000 |
| SOUND GENERATIONS | $15,000 |
| FOSS HOME AND VILLAGE | $15,000 |
| WOMEN UNITED SEATTLE | $15,000 |
| KIN ON | $15,000 |
| MLK FAME COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| WASHINGTON RHINESTONE | $10,000 |
| LAHAI HEALTH | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE REPERTORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA | $7,500 |
| NEST | $5,000 |
| HOPE LINK | $5,000 |
| PHINNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBORCASRE | $5,000 |
| FIRST AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $4,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $55k) 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.
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.
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.
We empower our asian community through a continuum of exceptional health care servies that are culturally sensitive.
To help seniors living in northern King County and southern Snohomish County age-in-place and remain socially active.
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…
To preserve and rehabilitate affordable senior housing.
Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.
The mission of the Southwest Seattle Historical Society is to promote inclusive local history through education, preservation, and advocacy. The Southwest Seattle area includes all of the West Seattle Peninsula form Puget Sound on the west…
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…
Neighborhood helping neighbor program that uses volunteer professional staff to help seniors remain safely in their homes with an enhanced quality of life
WCSC connects and empowers older adults to live happy, healthy, and engaged lives.
Orcas Senior Center (OSC) engages the community to provide services, advocacy, and support so that people can live and age well on Orcas Island. Orcas Senior Center supports this community through a variety of opportunities, programs,…
Operate a continuing care facility for seniors.
Gay city: seattle's lgbtq center cultivates access and connections to promote self-determination, liberation and joy in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Seattle Senior Center and the most unlike its peers is Women United. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 SEATTLE JAZZ FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds Senior Center of West Seattle ↗
- Who funds Women United ↗
- Who funds KIN ON HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOSS HOME & VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds MLK FAMILY ARTS MENTORING ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAHAI HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA DBA SEATTLE REPERTORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NORTH EAST SEATTLE TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Phinney Neighborhood Association ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation House at Northgate 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.
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.
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