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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.

$735k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$460k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.0MRecreation & Sports$416kEnvironment$381kInternational$191kEducation$69kHealth$49kPhilanthropy$20kAnimals$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $460k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC AND ART$460,000
NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT BUILDING$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
SEATTLE OPERA$20,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$20,000
SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST$10,000
KEXP - PUBLIC RADIO$10,000
MERCY CORPS$10,000
NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP$10,000
FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT PARK$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NEVADA NORTHERN RAILWAY MUSEUM$3,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
DELAWARE & LEHIGH HERITAGE CORRIDOR$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $25k → 14%MERCY CORPS: $50k → 12%TOWN HALL SEATTLE: $112k → 9%NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT BUILDING: $100k → 11%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $20k → 14%MERCY CORPS: $40k → 12%PCC FARMLAND TRUST: $100k → 9%NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT BUILDING: $50k → 11%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $20k → 14%MERCY CORPS: $31k → 12%NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT BUILDING: $21k → 11%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $20k → 14%MERCY CORPS: $20k → 12%NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT BUILDING: $20k → 11%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $20k → 14%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $20k → 14%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $20k → 14%MERIDITH MATTHEWS YMCA: $150k → 9%MERIDITH MATTHEWS YMCA: $100k → 9%NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER: $25k → 11%MERIDITH MATTHEWS YMCA: $51k → 9%MERIDITH MATTHEWS YMCA: $50k → 9%MERIDITH MATTHEWS YMCA: $20k → 9%SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC AND ART: $460k → 9%SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC AND ART: $400k → 9%SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC AND ART: $350k → 9%SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC AND ART: $320k → 9%SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC AND ART: $30k → 9%COUNTRY DOCTOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $20k → 9%THE DICKEY FUND: $20k → 9%PUGET SOUND MARITIME: $25k → 9%SEATTLE OPERA: $175k → 9%CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS: $140k → 9%VIRGINIA V FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%SEATTLE OPERA: $40k → 9%VIRGINIA V FOUNDATION: $36k → 9%NW SEAPORT: $31k → 9%SEATTLE OPERA: $30k → 9%CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS: $30k → 9%NW SEAPORT: $30k → 9%CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS: $30k → 9%CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS: $29k → 9%VIRGINIA V FOUNDATION: $26k → 9%PUGET SOUND MARITIME: $25k → 9%KEXP - PUBLIC RADIO: $20k → 9%PUGET SOUND MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 9%KEXP - PUBLIC RADIO: $20k → 9%BURKE MUSEUM: $30k → 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

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WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 38 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
9

Total granted

$4.1M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+86%

Still filing today

66%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SS
    SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC & ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +99% · 99% of their budget
  • CF
    Center For Wooden Boats
    6× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +2%
  • NS
    Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
    8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DICKEY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +280% · 49% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • GP
    GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +86%
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
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
2
Discover Your Northwest

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.

Recreation & Sports
3
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
4
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
5
Seattle Architectural Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Pacific Marine Research

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,…

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7
Port Townsend Marine Science Center

The port townsend marine science center inspires conservation of the salish sea.

Science & Tech
8
Whatcom Land Trust

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.

Environment
9
Museum of Northwest Art

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…

Arts & Culture
10
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

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.

Environment
11
Washington Trust for Historic Preservation

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Peninsula Conservancy; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
28/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC & ART: $1,560,104 · Arts & CultureSAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC & ARTSEATTLE OPERA: $317,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE OPERANorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding: $224,500 · Arts & CultureNorthwest School of Wooden BoatbuildingNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $145,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATESTown Hall Association: $128,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $121,900 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $381,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVIRGINIA V FOUNDATION: $124,000 · OtherVIRGINIA V FOUNDATIONKEXP - PUBLIC RADIO: $117,000 · OtherKEXP - PUBLIC RADIOIndividual grant recipient: $89,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $68,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEVADA NORTHERN RAILWAY MUSEUM: $43,500 · OtherPUGET SOUND MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $37,000 · Other+17 more: $110,100 · Other+17 moreCenter For Wooden Boats: $239,500 · Recreation & SportsSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPCC FARMLAND TRUST: $101,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE DELAWARE CANAL INC: $44,100 · EnvironmentTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $34,100 · EnvironmentGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · Environment+6 more: $15,500 · EnvironmentMercy Corps: $173,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,500 · InternationalSEATTLE ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $33,000 · HealthTHE DICKEY FUND: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$2,496,504Other$969,600Recreation & Sports$264,500Environment$204,700International$190,500Health$33,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC & ART: $1,560,104 over 5y, 99% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA: $317,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCenter For Wooden Boats: $239,500 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetNorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding: $224,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetMercy Corps: $173,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $145,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTown Hall Association: $128,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetPCC FARMLAND TRUST: $101,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER: $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $46,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DELAWARE CANAL INC: $44,100 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetPUGET SOUND MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $37,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $34,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $33,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DICKEY FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT FINE ARTS CENTER: $16,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSKI FOR LIGHT INC: $16,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ORANGUTAN CONSERVANCY: $8,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetHISTORIC SEATTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCoolspring Power Museum: $4,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLummi Island Heritage Trust: $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHUNTERDON LAND TRUST: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACK L DAVIES NAPA VALLEY AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK DIAMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $400 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

  • 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 FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Hugh and Jane Fer…Wyman Youth TrustLand Trust Alliance I…ArtsfundRaven Trust FundPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Dickey FundDv & Ida McEachern Ch…Apex Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA29.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 48%
  • Hunterdon Land Trust: 48% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Goodfellow Fund?

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.

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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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