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Goodfellow Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC AND ART | $460,000 |
| NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT BUILDING | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $20,000 |
| SEATTLE OPERA | $20,000 |
| KEXP - PUBLIC RADIO | $10,000 |
| SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST | $10,000 |
| NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $10,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT PARK | $10,000 |
| NEVADA NORTHERN RAILWAY MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ORANGUTAN CONSERVANCY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
38 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SSSAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC & ART5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +99% · 99% of their budget
- CFCenter For Wooden Boats6× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +2%
- NSNorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- TDTHE DICKEY FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +280% · 49% of their budget
- GPGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +86%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
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.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
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…
The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…
The port townsend marine science center inspires conservation of the salish sea.
The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the places that matter in Washington State and to promoting sustainable and economically viable communities through historic preservation.
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Peninsula Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is The Dickey Fund. 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 38 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) — 3% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 50 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 SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC & ART ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds Center For Wooden Boats ↗
- Who funds Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
- Who funds PCC FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER ↗
- Who funds BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DELAWARE CANAL INC ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUND MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DICKEY FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRATT FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SKI FOR LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ORANGUTAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SEATTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School ↗
- Who funds Coolspring Power Museum ↗
- Who funds Lummi Island Heritage Trust ↗
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 · The Norcliffe Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Artsfund · Raven Trust Fund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Dickey Fund · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Apex 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 Goodfellow Fund 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.
- Hunterdon Land Trust — 48% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
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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Find your warmest path to Goodfellow 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.