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Garneau Nicon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $432k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MORE WE LOVE | $30,000 |
| RECLAIM | $30,000 |
| SUMNER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER | $25,000 |
| SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE | $25,000 |
| SNOQUALMIE FOOD BANK | $24,000 |
| ENCOMPASS | $23,145 |
| MT SI SENIOR CENTER | $20,000 |
| COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| ELDERWISE | $15,000 |
| STREET YOUTH MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY ROOTS HOUSING FDN | $15,000 |
| PUYALLUP VALLET ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $15,000 |
| ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME | $15,000 |
| PAWS | $10,000 |
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, $474k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 24 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k 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
- ENENCOMPASS NORTHWEST6× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +47%
- EYEmpower Youth Network3× · 2018–2024 · $81k · revenue +214%
- SVSNOQUALMIE VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES2× · 2017–2020 · $69k · revenue +667%
Funded once
- VMVASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- GEGREENLAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTAone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -30%
- TTThe Trail Youthgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +304% · 28% of their budget
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.
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…
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.
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,…
Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
The Friends of the Seattle Public Library's mission is to elevate the Library and inspire the love of reading in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
182 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. 182 of the 295 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ENCOMPASS NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Empower Youth Network ↗
- Who funds SNOQUALMIE VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Seattle Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds Bridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries ↗
- Who funds RECLAIM ↗
- Who funds VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREENLAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds The Trail Youth ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD NOW ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS ↗
- Who funds Downtown Emergency Service Center ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN TREATMENT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds Mt Si Senior Center ↗
- Who funds Puyallup Valley St Francis House ↗
- Who funds Seattle JazzED ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds KIMSEATTLE ↗
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 Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · United Way of King County · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Medina Foundation · Charis Fund · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Fales Foundation Trust · Artsfund
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 Garneau Nicon Family 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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