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Helen Martha Schiff Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORCHLIGHT$4,000
NEW BEGINNINGS$4,000
SOLID GROUND WASHINGTON$4,000
STREET YOUTH MINISTRIES$4,000
KING COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE$4,000
HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES$4,000
SOUND GENERATIONS$4,000
FOSTER HEARTS$4,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC$4,000
EMERALD THEATRE$4,000
GEORGE POCOCK ROWING FOUNDATION$4,000
FOREVERGREEN TRAILS$4,000
GREENTRIKE$4,000
WE HEART SEATTLE$4,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA$4,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SOUND GENERATIONS: $4k → 9%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $2k → 9%OFFICE MOMS AND DADS: $2k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $4k → 9%FOSTER HEARTS: $4k → 12%FOSTER HEARTS: $4k → 12%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $3k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $4k → 9%NEW HORIZONS: $2k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $2k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
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

  • 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
  • RC
    Rainbow Center
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -1%
  • DN
    DELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue 0%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Beginnings; 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.
04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 91 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 EASTSIDEJUMA VENTURES INC: $8,000 · OtherSTREET YOUTH MINITRIES: $14,000 · OtherSTREET YOUTH MINITRIESEarthcorps: $7,500 · Other+36 more: $116,000 · Other+36 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…VINE MAPLE PLACE: $4,000 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $4,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $4,000 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSE: $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 · HealthCarePoint Clinic: $4,000 · HealthCATHERINE PLACE: $4,000 · HealthASHLEY HOUSE: $2,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE: $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 DevelopmentPongo Publishing Inc: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCLOTHES FOR KIDS: $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 & CultureNorth Cascades Institute: $8,000 · EnvironmentDELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · EnvironmentForeverGreen Trails: $4,000 · EnvironmentThe Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust: $2,000 · Environment
Other$213,000Human Services$76,000Housing & Shelter$48,500Health$25,500Youth Development$24,000Arts & Culture$18,500Environment$18,000

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 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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUMA VENTURES INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoster Hearts: $8,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEarthcorps: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBike Works Seattle: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWe Heart Seattle: $6,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place: $6,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDress for Success Seattle: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCJK COMMUNITY HOMES: $6,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDVANTAGE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAcres of Diamonds: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRainbow Center: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarePoint Clinic: $4,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNeighborhood House INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHERINE PLACE: $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetForeverGreen Trails: $4,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRICHARD HUGO HOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 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

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 Helen Martha Schiff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Martha Schiff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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.

    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 91 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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