· Private foundation
Illuminated 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA | $15,000 |
| NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ACLU OF ARIZONA | $15,000 |
| FAMILY WORKS | $10,000 |
| PHOENIX ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| HOMELESS ID PROJECT | $10,000 |
| JOYCE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| WESTSIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WILD BIRD FUND | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| BALLARD FC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST ARTS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- WSWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE4× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +55%
- PAPHOENIX ART MUSEUM4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +44%
- FOFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +12%
- UNUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INCone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -20%
THE BAIL PROJECT INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -85%
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.
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Fos feminista fund was formed exclusively for charitable purposes to support, foster, aid, and enhance access to contraception, responsible parenthood, reproductive health, and empowerment of women and shall aid and support the activities…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Ippfwhr (dba fos feminista) aims to improve the quality of life of individuals by campaigning for sexual and reproductive health and rights through advocacy and services, especially for poor and vulnerable people. we defend the right of…
End hunger together.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is Umom New Day Centers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 29 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 WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYWORKS ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds NW Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds Northwest Art Alliance ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ID PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Illuminated 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.
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.