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Grousemont Foundation
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 $10k40 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k74 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k56 grants · $4.1M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,250,000 |
| SEATTLE CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,250,000 |
| UW BROTHERHOODSISTERHOOD INITIATIVE (NO REGRETS) | $500,000 |
| DUWAMISH RIVER CLEANUP COALITION | $300,000 |
| WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND | $300,000 |
| SEATTLE CENTER FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| TUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM | $250,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC (NO REGRETS) | $250,000 |
| RIVERTON PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $210,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE | $200,000 |
| TOXIC-FREE FUTURE | $200,000 |
| REFUGEE ARTISAN INITIATIVE | $200,000 |
| YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED | $150,000 |
| REFUGEE WOMENS ALLIANCE(REWA) | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 16% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
134 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 43 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- SCSeattle Center Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +86%
- SASEATTLE ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +0%
- CPCOMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +127%
Funded once
Native Americans in Philanthropygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +70%- BMBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -22%
- BCBUILDING CHANGESone grant, 2020 · $78k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
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.…
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,…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
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…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Beecher's Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
244 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. 244 of the 284 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 SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds TOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUND ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds Native Americans in Philanthropy ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLARD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Refugee Artisan Initative ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Seattle JazzED ↗
- Who funds Latino Community Fund of Washington State ↗
- Who funds BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Medina Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · School's Out Washington · Raikes Foundation · 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 Grousemont 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.
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% 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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