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Glassybaby White Light Fund

GLASSYBABY'S MISSION IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ASSISTANCE TO THOSE IN NEED, IN ORDER TO PROMOTE HOPE AND HEALING.

$125k
Granted FY2021
35
Grants FY2021
11
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$2.0MFood & Nutrition$503kHuman Services$359kEnvironment$351kPhilanthropy$312kAnimals$299kEducation$273kRecreation & Sports$212kOther$0
02FY2021 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k33 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BACKPACK BRIGADE$15,000
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS WOMEN'S ASSOC$14,779
COYOTE CENTRAL$6,500
SEATTLE JAZZED$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CAMELLA'S CUPBOARD$5,000
HALO MEDICAL TRAVEL SERVICES$5,000
HUNTER INTERVENTION PROGRAM$5,000
OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE$5,000
CERF$5,000
BRIDGE THE GAP COLLEGE PREP$5,000
DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES$5,000
POTLATCH FUND$5,000
OLD DOG HAVEN$5,000
CAREBOX PROGRAM$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $309k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $126 → 8%SEND IT: $3k → 11%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $135 → 10%LOVING ANGEL SERVICE DOGS INC: $1k → 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $30k → 8%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $2k → 9%PINK LEMONADE PROJECT: $93 → 9%LOVE YOUR BRAIN: $10k → 9%HOUR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $9k → 7%ANGEL WINGS FOUNDATION: $258 → 9%CHELAN VALLEY HOPE: $252 → 9%MOTHERS GRACE: $10k → 11%HILLSBOROUGH AUXILIARY TO PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $294 → 7%FOR A DAY FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%ANGEL WINGS FOUNDATION: $129 → 9%FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK: $1k → 9%WHATCOM FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $339 → 12%CHILDRENS HEALING ART PROJECT: $2k → 12%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $141 → 12%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND - SEATTLE PUPPY RAISERS GROUP # 04-12: $2k → 8%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $204 → 8%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $177 → 12%LIFEWIRE: $501 → 9%SKOOKUM KIDS: $249 → 12%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $2k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $3k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 9%MAKE-A-WISH GREATER BAY AREA: $11k → 10%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA FOOD BANK: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $218 → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $150 → 9%FOOTPRINTS OF FIGHT: $2k → 9%EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $56k → 9%EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $44k → 9%EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $375 → 9%EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $213 → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $8k → 9%SOULUMINATION: $7k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $47k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $2k → 9%SIMPLE & JUST: $2k → 9%SIMPLE & JUST: $2k → 9%WINDERMERE FOUNDATION: $7k → 9%SIMPLE & JUST: $2k → 9%WINDERMERE FOUNDATION: $179 → 9%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

VT
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ID
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 118 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

118 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2021, 96 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
479

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+37%

Still filing today

87%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $275k · revenue +123%
  • WC
    WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $145k · revenue +302%
  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    3× · 2017–2019 · $111k · revenue +355%

Funded once

  • VF
    VITALOGY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $201k · revenue +40%
  • SF
    San Francisco Public Montessori PTA
    one grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue -86% · 33% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICINE ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $51k
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
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
2
Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle children's hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their…

Health
3
Cancer Lifeline

Optimizing the quality of life for all people living with cancer by offering emotional support, financial advocacy and assistance, exercise, nutrition and artistic expression classes and mental health counseling at no cost.

Health
4
Northwest Sarcoma Foundation

We provide hope, education and support to sarcoma patients and their families in the pacific northwest while investing in research to improve cure rates for sarcomas.

Human Services
5
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

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,…

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6
North Olympic Healthcare Network

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

Health
7
Nw Childrens Foundation

To end the intergenerational cycle of child abuse, neglect and trauma.

Crime & Legal
8
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
9
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
10
Healthpoint

Healthpoint strengthens communities and improves people's health by delivering quality services, breaking down barriers and providing access to all.

Health
11
Bloodworks

Saving lives through research, innovation, education and excellence in blood, medical and laboratory services in partnership with our community.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington; the most unlike its peers is Metro Portland New Car Dealers Charitable 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

452 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 452 of the 618 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
140
Early backer (in before they grew)
432/452
Grantees still filing
334/452
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VA PUGET SOUND: $123,788 · OtherVA PUGET SOUNDSeattle Children's Foundation: $102,515 · OtherSeattle Children's FoundationFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $79,098 · OtherFoodwise Community: $64,869 · OtherGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $68,410 · Other+104 more: $1,467,646 · Other+104 moreAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $147,014 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY …Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $110,921 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer C…ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $63,298 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INCMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $61,500 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING…ANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $59,664 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGL…Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $50,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $49,652 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $36,595 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $33,546 · Health+29 more: $373,466 · Health+29 moreVITALOGY FOUNDATION: $201,109 · PhilanthropyVITALOGY FO…SEATTLE SEAHAWKS WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $132,520 · PhilanthropySEATTLE SEA…THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND: $51,595 · PhilanthropyTHE SEATTLE…PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $18,154 · Philanthropy+8 more: $53,908 · Philanthropy+8 moreEVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $102,170 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN…ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $47,385 · Human ServicesISSAQUAH …TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $34,583 · Human ServicesTEAM GLEA…THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $29,718 · Human ServicesFREEDOM S…MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $25,010 · Human ServicesMARY'S PL…LADYBUG HOUSE: $13,057 · Human Services+11 more: $98,078 · Human Services+11 moreCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $274,850 · EnvironmentSLIDE RANCH: $20,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPERS CHESAPEAKE INC: $13,996 · Environment+2 more: $15,230 · EnvironmentWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $144,930 · AnimalsTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $29,794 · AnimalsTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $15,635 · Animals+6 more: $35,857 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $91,287 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $62,601 · EducationSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education826 Valencia: $15,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $9,597 · EducationCOYOTE CENTRAL: $8,000 · Education+3 more: $19,478 · Education
Other$1,906,326Health$985,656Philanthropy$457,286Human Services$380,001Environment$324,076Animals$226,216Education$225,963

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $274,850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVITALOGY FOUNDATION: $201,109 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $147,014 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $144,930 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE SEAHAWKS WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $132,520 over 5y, 58% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $110,921 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $102,515 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $102,170 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $91,287 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $79,098 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $68,410 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoodwise Community: $64,869 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $63,298 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $62,601 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $61,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarlem Mothers Stop Another Violent End Inc: $55,808 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetSan Francisco Public Montessori PTA: $55,666 over 1y, 33% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $54,957 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $52,808 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $49,652 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $47,385 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep: $42,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $36,595 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $34,583 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $33,546 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNick Wilson Charitable Group: $32,722 over 2y, 30% of budgetCAMP KOREY: $30,932 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $29,794 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $29,718 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $29,533 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND THE BADGE FOUNDATION: $28,751 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $26,870 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSKAGIT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,409 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $25,010 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Rising: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES: $20,816 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetELUNA FORMERLY THE MOYER FOUNDATION: $20,768 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSLIDE RANCH: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association: $19,961 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $19,648 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $18,677 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $18,154 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationWindermere FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Medina FoundationGarneau Nicon Family …Glassybaby FoundationLucky Seven FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Charis Fund
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE91.3× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Windermere Foundation · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Glassybaby Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Charis Fund

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 Glassybaby White Light Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Glassybaby White Light Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Lines for Life: 70% of income from government
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Children's Healing Art Project Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Dougy Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Glassybaby White Light Fund?

Find your warmest path to Glassybaby White Light Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 618 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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