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Glaser Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$817k
Granted FY2021
85
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$240kEducation$200kHealth$184kFood & Nutrition$181kYouth Development$154kEmployment$108kHousing & Shelter$108kArts & Culture$79kOther$0
02FY2021 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k46 grants · $197k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $570k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$6,350
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE$50,000
GIRLS INC$40,000
FARESTART$30,000
KINDERING$25,000
LIFELONG-HEALTH FOR ALL$25,000
HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL$25,000
OUTDOORS FOR ALL FOUNDATION$20,000
TACOMA RESCUE MISSION$20,000
VALLEY CITIES COUNSELING$20,000
JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER$20,000
SONS OF NORWAY FOUNDATION$20,000
SAWHORSE REVOLUTION$15,000
GREEN PLATE SPECIAL$15,000
ATWORK$15,000
YEAR UP$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $292k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $3k → 12%EVERETT GOSPEL MISSION: $10k → 9%SKOOKUM KIDS: $4k → 12%NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $10k → 10%CANCER PATHWAYS: $15k → 9%PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 9%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $8k → 10%LIFEWIRE: $30k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $3k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 9%NORTH EAST SEATTLE TOGETHER: $11k → 9%FREE2LUV: $7k → 9%NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY SOCIETY: $3k → 9%HOPELINK: $35k → 9%MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 9%MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%ATWORK: $15k → 9%ATWORK: $15k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BAORD: $10k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $5k → 9%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
OR
PA
CO

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$367k · 17 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 68 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
47

Total granted

$367k
$491k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+7%

Still filing today

76%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $661k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • KC
    KINDERING CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +29%
  • RV
    RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +29%
  • A
    ATWORK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • NH
    NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -35%
  • H
    HOPELINKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +48%
  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
2
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
3
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
4
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
5
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
6
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
7
Project Access Northwest

Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.

Health
8
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
9
Re Sources

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.

Environment
10
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
11
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
12
We Heart Seattle

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…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Center and the most unlike its peers is Somali Health Board. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWashington State Advocacy N…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…Immigrant & Refugee ServicesIndependent Schools and Ear…Faith-Based Community Servi…School Parent-Teacher Organ…Community Music and Arts Pe…International Development A…Family Philanthropic Founda…Affordable Housing & Suppor…Community Food Banks
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr13%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/110
the rest of the field
13%
2,393/17,929

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.

04the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 132 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/108
Grantees still filing
81/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KINDERING CENTER — $60,000 · OtherKINDERING CENTERRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK — $50,000 · OtherRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANKNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $35,000 · OtherFOOD LIFELINE — $35,000 · Other+62 more — $533,250 · Other+62 moreTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRIST…HOPELINK — $35,000 · Human ServicesHOPELINKLifeWire — $30,000 · Human ServicesLifeWireATWORK — $30,000 · Human ServicesATWORKPIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesPIKE MARKET SENIOR CEN…Cancer Pathways — $15,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesNORTH EAST SEATTLE TOGETHER — $11,000 · Human Services+15 more — $101,115 · Human Services+15 moreYEAR UP INC — $30,000 · EducationYEAR UP IN…HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationHAMLIN ROB…RAINIER SCHOLARS — $15,000 · EducationRAINIER SC…Sawhorse Revolution — $15,000 · EducationSawhorse R…Pacific Lutheran University — $10,000 · EducationPacific Lu…NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS — $10,000 · EducationNORTHWEST …Team Read — $7,500 · EducationTeam ReadYOUR MONEY MATTERS — $5,000 · EducationKing County Library System Foundation — $5,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON — $5,000 · Education+2 more — $7,000 · EducationLIFELONG HEALTH FOR ALL — $25,000 · HealthLIFELONG …VALLEY CITIES COUNSELING AND CONSULTATION — $20,000 · HealthVALLEY CI…SOUTH SEATTLE WOMENS HEALTH FOUNDAT — $15,000 · HealthSOUTH SEA…Center for Chronic Illness — $11,320 · HealthCenter fo…SAFE HARBOR FREE CLINIC — $10,000 · HealthSAFE HARB…NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH — $10,000 · HealthNEIGHBORC…RMH SERVICES — $9,000 · HealthRMH SERVI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $5,000 · HealthPediatric Interim Care Center — $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 · HealthTHE GOODTIMES PROJECT — $5,000 · HealthDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $5,000 · Health+3 more — $7,000 · HealthGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Inc…CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD ADV…TREEHOUSE — $13,600 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSENEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBORH…IGNITE WORLDWIDE — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentIGNITE WO…SEATTLE CARES CIRCLE OF THE NATIONAL CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEATTLE C…SEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED — $5,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $2,150 · Youth DevelopmentFARESTART — $51,500 · EmploymentNORTHWEST CENTER — $5,000 · EmploymentJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE RESCUE MISSION — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHousing Resources Bainbridge — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground Washington — $4,350 · Housing & Shelter
Other$713,250Human Services$307,115Education$134,500Health$132,320Youth Development$120,750Employment$56,500Housing & Shelter$54,350

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKINDERING CENTER — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFARESTART — $51,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — $40,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPELINK — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeWire — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATWORK — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFELONG HEALTH FOR ALL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVALLEY CITIES COUNSELING AND CONSULTATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSONS OF NORWAY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND — $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetATTAIN HOUSING — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREEN PLATE SPECIAL — $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCancer Pathways — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSawhorse Revolution — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE — $13,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Chronic Illness — $11,320 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetNORTH EAST SEATTLE TOGETHER — $11,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSOMALI HEALTH BOARD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPacific Lutheran University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEVERETT GOSPEL MISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShared Housing Services — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREMOTE ENERGY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSAFE HARBOR FREE CLINIC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CENTER FOR THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Lucky Seven FoundationMedina FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…United Way of King Co…Liberty Mutual Founda…Employees Community F…Fales Foundation TrustSchool's Out Washingt…Charis Fund
The Norcliffe FoundationWA104.1× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Medina Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Fales Foundation Trust · School's Out Washington · Charis Fund

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 Glaser Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Glaser Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Glaser Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $681k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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