How much does Helen Martha Schiff Foundation give?

Helen Martha Schiff Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $83,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Helen Martha Schiff Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Youth Development (14%).

Who are Helen Martha Schiff Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children ($17k), New Beginnings ($14k), Street Youth Minitries ($14k).

Does Helen Martha Schiff Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Helen Martha Schiff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Helen Martha Schiff Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Seattle Foundation.

Where is Helen Martha Schiff Foundation based?

Helen Martha Schiff Foundation is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Private foundation

Helen Martha Schiff Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$84k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2025: 19
Organizations funded FY2024: 47%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $4,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $4,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 37; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $1.2M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Helen Martha Schiff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	23	$84k	26%
FY2024	19	$67k	47%
FY2023	18	$57k	39%
FY2022	37	$93k	68%
FY2021	31	$62k	52%
FY2020	28	$62k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$85kHousing & Shelter$73kYouth Development$59kHealth$52kArts & Culture$32kEnvironment$26kCrime & Legal$20kInternational$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children	$16,500	5	0%
New Beginnings	$14,000	4	0%
Street Youth Minitries	$14,000	5	n/a
Solid Ground Washington	$13,500	5	0%
Neighborhood Clinic	$12,000	3	1%
Assistance League of the Eastside	$12,000	5	1%
New Phoebe House	$10,000	3	1%
Friends of the Children Tacoma	$8,000	2	0%
North Cascades Institute	$8,000	4	0%
Juma Ventures Inc	$8,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Helen Martha Schiff Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children	$16,500	5	0%
New Beginnings	$14,000	4	0%
Street Youth Minitries	$14,000	5	n/a
Solid Ground Washington	$13,500	5	0%
Neighborhood Clinic	$12,000	3	1%
Assistance League of the Eastside	$12,000	5	1%
New Phoebe House	$10,000	3	1%
Friends of the Children Tacoma	$8,000	2	0%
North Cascades Institute	$8,000	4	0%
Juma Ventures Inc	$8,000	4	0%
Foster Hearts	$8,000	2	1%
Earthcorps	$7,500	3	0%
Bike Works Seattle	$7,000	3	0%
Congregations for the Homeless	$7,000	2	0%
Wellspring Family Services	$7,000	3	0%
We Heart Seattle	$6,500	2	0%
George Pocock Rowing Foundation	$6,500	2	0%
Refugee Womens Alliance	$6,500	2	0%
Maris Place	$6,500	3	1%
Dress for Success Seattle	$6,000	2	0%
Humanities Washington	$6,000	2	0%
Pediatric Interim Care Center	$6,000	3	0%
Sound Generations	$6,000	2	0%
Cjk Community Homes	$6,000	2	3%
Jubilee Women's Center	$5,000	2	0%
Kidvantage	$5,000	2	0%
Domestic Abuse Women's Network	$4,500	2	0%
Acres of Diamonds	$4,500	2	0%
Oasis Youth Center	$4,500	2	n/a
Ark Institute of Learning	$4,500	2	0%
Kindering Center	$4,500	2	0%
Foss Waterway Seaport	$4,000	2	0%
Rainbow Center	$4,000	1	1%
Vine Maple Place	$4,000	1	0%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$4,000	2	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of King County	$4,000	2	0%
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association	$4,000	1	0%
Step by Step Family Support Center	$4,000	1	0%
Greentrike	$4,000	1	n/a
CarePoint Clinic	$4,000	1	3%
Neighborhood House INC	$4,000	2	0%
Catherine Place	$4,000	2	1%
Cocoon House	$4,000	1	0%
International Rescue Committee INC	$4,000	1	0%
Senior Services of Snohomish County	$4,000	1	n/a
Vision House	$4,000	2	0%
Farestart	$4,000	2	0%
ForeverGreen Trails	$4,000	1	3%
Lake City Partners Ending Homelessness	$3,500	1	0%
Second Chance Outreach Hope for Homies	$3,000	1	n/a
Roots Young Adult Shelter	$3,000	1	0%
Richard Hugo House	$2,500	1	0%
Youthcare	$2,500	1	0%
Pongo Publishing Inc	$2,500	1	1%
Wild Whatcom	$2,500	1	0%
The University Heights Center for the Community Association	$2,500	1	0%
Tenants Union of Washington	$2,500	1	0%
Ashley House	$2,500	1	0%
Clothes for Kids	$2,500	1	0%
Community Health Care	$2,500	1	0%
Northwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center	$2,000	1	0%
Cascadia Art Museum	$2,000	1	0%
Fosterful	$2,000	1	1%
Dove House Advocacy Services	$2,000	1	0%
Drug Abuse Council of Snohomish County	$2,000	1	0%
Backpack Brigade	$2,000	1	0%
Tacoma Community House	$2,000	1	0%
Green Plate Special	$2,000	1	0%
St Francis House	$2,000	1	0%
YWCA Pierce County	$2,000	1	0%
New Horizons Ministries	$2,000	1	0%
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust	$2,000	1	0%
Millennia Ministries	$2,000	1	1%
Steel Magic Northwest	$2,000	1	1%
The Henry Gallery Association Inc	$2,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen Martha Schiff Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 70.

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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.

The Norcliffe FoundationWA93.5× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Helen Martha Schiff Foundation

How much does Helen Martha Schiff Foundation give?: Helen Martha Schiff Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $83,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Helen Martha Schiff Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are Helen Martha Schiff Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children ($17k), New Beginnings ($14k), Street Youth Minitries ($14k).
Does Helen Martha Schiff Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Helen Martha Schiff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Helen Martha Schiff Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
Where is Helen Martha Schiff Foundation based?: Helen Martha Schiff Foundation is based in MN.