· Private foundation
Frederick Stearns 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB - KING COUNTY | $10,500 |
| GONZAGA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LEWISTON INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UPLIFT NORTHWEST | $2,000 |
| HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER | $2,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $2,000 |
| METHOW CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| BELLARMINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| THINK TOGETHER | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +40%- BOBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +63%
- LILEWISTON INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +22%
Feeding Americaone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +23%- HHOPELINKgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +30%
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 association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Humanities washington (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. we envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to…
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
Healthpoint strengthens communities and improves people's health by delivering quality services, breaking down barriers and providing access to all.
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 38 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 CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEWISTON INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METHOW CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds AGC OF WASHINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACETREES VIETNAM ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds GROW ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA HAWKS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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 · Real Progress Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Sellen Community Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy 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 Frederick Stearns 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.
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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