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Hazel Miller Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
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 FY2019–2025.

Housing & Shelter$535kEducation$422kHuman Services$400kArts & Culture$292kFood & Nutrition$146kCommunity Improvement$108kHealth$105kYouth Development$103kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $214k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $390k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $217k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSING HOPE$250,000
FOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT$58,875
JEAN KIM FOUNDATION$58,081
TEACHERS OF COLOR FOUNDATION$50,000
EDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS$50,000
EDMONDS FOOD BANK$43,500
EDMONDS CHAMBER FOUNDATION$30,000
WASHINGTON WEST AFRICAN CENTER$25,000
EDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
CASCADIA ART MUSEUM$25,000
SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS$25,000
YWCA SEATTLEKINGSNOHOMISH$20,000
WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION$20,000
PROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM$20,000
LIFT EVERY VOICE LEGACY$18,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FOSTER HEARTS: $5k → 12%EDMONDS SENIOR CENTER (DBA EDMONDS WATERFRONT CENTER): $35k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $3k → 9%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $25k → 9%ANYTHING HELPS: $15k → 9%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $25k → 9%ANYTHING HELPS: $10k → 9%EDMONDS SENIOR CENTER (DBA EDMONDS WATERFRONT CENTER): $10k → 9%ATWORK: $8k → 9%AT WORK: $3k → 9%HELPING HANDS PROJECT ORGANIZATION: $10k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $20k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $20k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.4M · 43 repeat orgs$623k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
30

Total granted

$9.4M
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

77%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TO
    TEACHERS OF COLOR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +33% · 54% of their budget
  • EF
    EDMONDS FOOD BANK
    2× · 2024–2025 · $81k · revenue +21%
  • CA
    CASCADIA ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $81k
  • BB
    BREAKING BARRIERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $42k · 76% of their budget
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +38%

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
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
2
Arts Council of Snohomish County

The schack art center offers inclusive and accessible arts programming that fosters creativity, engages the community and cultivates partnerships to enrich lives through the transformative power of the arts.

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3
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
4
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
5
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
6
Bike Works Seattle

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

Recreation & Sports
7
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
8
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children

Using Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) and oral communication we prepare deaf and hard-of-hearing children to be self-confident, articulate and academically competitive learners, and engaged community members.

Education
9
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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10
Washington State Association of Head State and Ecea Programs

WSA champions high-quality early learning through professional development, collaboration and advocacy for head start, early head start and early childhood education and assistance programs (ECEAP).

Education
11
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
12
Skagit Preschool and Resource Center

Programs for children with special needs from birth to six. sparc offers opportunities for family education, participation and support so that familiies may become more knowledgeable about their childs needs and goals are are better able…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services of Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Cascadia Art Museum. 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 backsteadyCommunity Music EducationAffordable Housing Developm…Labor Union LocalsChristian Evangelical Minis…Community Food BanksFaith-Based Healthcare Syst…Community Arts & CultureFraternity and Sorority Hou…Professional Trade Associat…Legal Services for Low-Inco…South Asian & Muslim Faith …International Development A…Youth Baseball ProgramsLive Theatre & Performance …Professional Trade Associat…
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 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%15%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr12%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%7%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr12%44%35–55yr12%5%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
13%
2,122/15,838

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

64 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. 64 of the 102 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
24/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

see Grants Paid ATTACHMENT — $7,620,560 · Othersee Grants Paid ATTACHMENT+62 more — $938,015 · Other+62 moreHOUSING HOPE — $500,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTEACHERS OF COLOR FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationEDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $56,000 · EducationBREAKING BARRIERS FOUNDATION — $42,000 · EducationLATINO EDUCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE — $35,000 · EducationNORTHWEST'S CHILD — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $11,000 · EducationEDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureWashington West African Center — $25,000 · Arts & CultureEDMONDS DRIFTWOOD PLAYERS INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $12,000 · Arts & CultureBALLYHOO THEATRE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSHUNPIKE — $8,000 · Arts & CultureART START NORTHWEST — $7,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCASCADIA ART MUSEUM — $50,000 · Human ServicesEDMONDS SENIOR CENTER — $45,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION — $40,000 · Human ServicesAnything Helps — $25,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $15,000 · Human ServicesATWORK — $10,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS PROJECT ORGANIZATION — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $8,500 · Human ServicesEDMONDS FOOD BANK — $81,000 · Food & NutritionLYNNWOOD FOOD BANK — $35,000 · Food & NutritionCONCERN FOR NEIGHBORS FOOD BANK — $30,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLOTHES FOR KIDS — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$8,558,575Housing & Shelter$510,000Education$254,000Arts & Culture$207,000Human Services$203,500Food & Nutrition$146,000Youth Development$110,000

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 budgetEDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTEACHERS OF COLOR FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetEDMONDS FOOD BANK — $81,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEDMONDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT — $58,875 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $56,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCASCADIA ART MUSEUM — $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSTILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS — $45,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEDMONDS SENIOR CENTER — $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBREAKING BARRIERS FOUNDATION — $42,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM — $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLATINO EDUCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLYNNWOOD FOOD BANK — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCONCERN FOR NEIGHBORS FOOD BANK — $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAnything Helps — $25,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetSUPPORT 7 — $25,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLAHAI HEALTH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEDMONDS DRIFTWOOD PLAYERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetWashington State Family And Community Engagement Trust — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINVESTED — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALLYHOO THEATRE — $10,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST'S CHILD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCLOTHES FOR KIDS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetATWORK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL HELP — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS PROJECT ORGANIZATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP KOREY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHUNPIKE — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON VOCATIONAL SERVICES — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTMAS HOUSE — $7,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetART START NORTHWEST — $7,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDSTRIVE — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEADOWDALE SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB — $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSEATTLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE VETERINARY OUTREACH — $5,260 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWEST EDMONDS COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoster Hearts — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Community Foundation …The Norcliffe Foundat…Hubbard Family Founda…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Credit Unions in the …Washington Federal Fo…Moccasin Lake Foundat…The Employee Communit…The Nysether Family F…Employees Community F…
Community Foundation of Snohomish CountyWA68.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Snohomish County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Hubbard Family Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Washington Federal Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington · The Nysether Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound

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 Hazel Miller 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Hazel Miller Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hazel Miller Foundation 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 102 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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