· Private foundation
Hickman Leona Educational Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION | $12,539 |
| RENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $6,269 |
| SOUTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FDN | $6,269 |
| HIGHLINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FOUNDATION | $6,269 |
| SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FOUNDATION | $6,269 |
| LAKE WASHINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE & FDN | $6,269 |
| GREEN RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FDN | $6,269 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- SCSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue -24%
- RTRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +386%
- SCSHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SCSEATTLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FDNone grant, 2018 · $7k
- NSNORTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FDNone grant, 2018 · $7k
- HCHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +115%
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.
Fundraising activities to support Seattle University
Our mission is to change lives by providing students with scholarships so they can pursue quality academic and vocational education. we do this through relationship building, fundraising and stewarding resources.
To support seattle central students, faculty and programs by raising and providing financial resources to help students achieve their fullest potential through quality education.
The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…
See schedule ofounded in 1973, city university of seattle's mission is to change lives for good by offering high quality and relevant lifelong education to anyone with the desire to learn. city university's vision is to provide underserved…
The mission of the foundation is to engage community and build resources to support success for all students.
Secure donations to enhance education at Skagit Valley College through scholarships, grants, and institutional support.
To provide scholarships to students of southwestern community college and to provide grants to encourage and promote the academic development and fundamental growth of southwestern community college
We provide a unique integrated system of supports and scholarships to inspire underserved, low-income students to finish high school, graduate from college and succeed in life.
The foundation serves the students, faculty and staff at st. cloud state university by engaging interested alumni and friends in supporting the mission, programs, and goals of the university. st. cloud state university is a highly…
The purpose of the southwestern oregon community college foundation is to support the college in improving people's lives - socially, culturally, economically and educationally - through friend-raising and fundraising.
The Education Fund enriches lives by supporting students, faculty, staff, and programs at North Seattle College.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Colleges Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 23 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 COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Herbert Jones Foundation · South Seattle College Foundation · Seattle Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Hickman Leona Educational Trust 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.
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.