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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$85kHousing & Shelter$73kYouth Development$59kHealth$52kArts & Culture$32kEnvironment$26kCrime & Legal$20kInternational$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW BEGINNINGS$4,000
HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES$4,000
PORCHLIGHT$4,000
EMERALD THEATRE$4,000
KING COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE$4,000
WE HEART SEATTLE$4,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA$4,000
LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN$4,000
VINE MAPLE PLACE$4,000
SOLID GROUND WASHINGTON$4,000
STREET YOUTH MINISTRIES$4,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE$4,000
FOSTER HEARTS$4,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC$4,000
GEORGE POCOCK ROWING FOUNDATION$4,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $72k) 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%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $2k → 9%OFFICE MOMS AND DADS: $2k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $4k → 9%FOSTER HEARTS: $4k → 12%SOUND GENERATIONS: $4k → 9%FOSTER HEARTS: $4k → 12%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $3k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $4k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $2k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $2k → 9%NEW HORIZONS: $2k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%LAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS: $4k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $3k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $4k → 9%NORTHWEST FAMILY LIFE: $2k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $4k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $3k → 9%KIDVANTAGE: $3k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $2k → 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$282k · 39 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
46

Total granted

$282k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+11%

Still filing today

95%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • LD
    LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN
    5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +4%
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +23%
  • SY
    STREET YOUTH MINITRIES
    5× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRINITY CLINIC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • CO
    COMMUNITY OUTREACH & VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMEN
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • CH
    COCOON HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -28%

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
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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2
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
3
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
4
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
5
Young Women's Christian Association of Bellingham

YWCA Bellingham is part of a national network of programs with the shared mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, and freedom for all.

Human Services
6
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
7
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
8
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
9
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
10
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
11
Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.

Education
12
Downtown Emergency Service Center

DESC helps people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Beginnings 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 backsteadyWashington State Policy Adv…Professional Association Ne…Housing & Support ServicesFamily FoundationsIndustry Trade AssociationsImmigrant & Refugee Communi…Service Club FoundationsLabor Union LocalsLabor Union Benefit TrustsFaith-Based International D…
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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%1%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr19%44%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr12%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%11%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr19%47%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/75
the rest of the field
14%
2,244/16,488

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

75 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. 75 of the 91 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
46/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $16,500 · OtherLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDRENNEW BEGINNINGS — $14,000 · OtherNEW BEGINNINGSKING COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE — $13,000 · OtherKING COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCENEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC — $12,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD CLINICASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE — $12,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDENorth Cascades Institute — $8,000 · OtherSTREET YOUTH MINITRIES — $14,000 · OtherSTREET YOUTH MINITRIESEarthcorps — $7,500 · Other+37 more — $116,000 · Other+37 moreFoster Hearts — $8,000 · Human ServicesFoster HeartsWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $7,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMILY SE…Refugee Womens Alliance — $6,500 · Human ServicesRefugee Womens Allia…SOUND GENERATIONS — $6,000 · Human ServicesSOUND GENERATIONSKIDVANTAGE — $5,000 · Human ServicesKIDVANTAGEDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK — $4,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN…Neighborhood House INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE PLACE — $4,000 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSE — $4,000 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $4,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $4,000 · Human ServicesLAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS — $3,500 · Human ServicesSecond Chance Outreach Hope for Homies — $3,000 · Human Services+6 more — $12,500 · Human Services+6 moreSolid Ground Washington — $13,500 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground…NEW PHOEBE HOUSE — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW PHOEBE H…CONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS — $7,000 · Housing & ShelterCONGREGATION…CJK COMMUNITY HOMES — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterCJK COMMUNIT…JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE WOME…COCOON HOUSE — $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCOCOON HOUSEROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterROOTS YOUNG …Pediatric Interim Care Center — $6,000 · HealthAcres of Diamonds — $4,500 · HealthCATHERINE PLACE — $4,000 · HealthCarePoint Clinic — $4,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE — $2,500 · HealthASHLEY HOUSE — $2,500 · HealthDRUG ABUSE COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $2,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentMaris Place — $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentOasis Youth Center — $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentCLOTHES FOR KIDS — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentPongo Publishing Inc — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentHUMANITIES WASHINGTON — $6,000 · Arts & CultureFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT — $4,000 · Arts & CultureGREENTRIKE — $4,000 · Arts & CultureRICHARD HUGO HOUSE — $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureJUMA VENTURES INC — $8,000 · EmploymentDress for Success Seattle — $6,000 · EmploymentFARESTART — $4,000 · Employment
Other$213,000Human Services$76,000Housing & Shelter$48,500Health$25,500Youth Development$24,000Arts & Culture$18,500Employment$18,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS — $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSolid Ground Washington — $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE — $12,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNEW PHOEBE HOUSE — $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFoster Hearts — $8,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJUMA VENTURES INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEarthcorps — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBike Works Seattle — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place — $6,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWe Heart Seattle — $6,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation — $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDress for Success Seattle — $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCJK COMMUNITY HOMES — $6,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDVANTAGE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING — $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAcres of Diamonds — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKINDERING CENTER — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHERINE PLACE — $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNeighborhood House INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRainbow Center — $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISION HOUSE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFARESTART — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarePoint Clinic — $4,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetForeverGreen Trails — $4,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES FOR KIDS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationMedina FoundationFales Foundation TrustMoccasin Lake Foundat…Liberty Mutual Founda…Allison Foundation Tr…Washington Federal Fo…Kilworth Florence Cha…Kawabe Memorial FundDv & Ida McEachern Ch…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA93.5× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Allison Foundation Trust Tai · Washington Federal Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Kawabe Memorial Fund · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr

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 Helen Martha Schiff 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 91 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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