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Herman & Faye Sarkowsky Charitable 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $101k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $332,685 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE SEATTLE | $50,539 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE | $25,000 |
| ARTS FUND | $17,000 |
| SEATTLE REP THEATRE | $15,000 |
| TEENTIX | $5,000 |
| KAVANA COOPERATIVE | $5,000 |
| THE 5TH AVENUE THEATER | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI | $250 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE4× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +97%
- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM2× · 2020–2021 · $787k · revenue +23%
- WSWASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE4× · 2020–2023 · $255k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SCSEATTLE COLLEGESone grant, 2022 · $203k
- UWUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -47%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $153k
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.
The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
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.
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
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,…
Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.
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…
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
Neighborhood farmers market alliance's mission is to strengthen and support washington's small farms and farming families by providing effective direct sales sites and broadening access to seattle shoppers.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
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.
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is Teentix. 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.
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 46 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 47 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
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 ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
- Who funds KAVANA THE KAVANA COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds TEENTIX ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE RANCH ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY FUND ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds CANCER LIFELINE ↗
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 · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · United Way of King County · Loeb Charitable Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Pruzan Foundation · Alhadeff Family Charitable Foundation · Feinberg Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · American Gift Fund
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 Herman & Faye Sarkowsky Charitable 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.
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% 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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