· Private foundation
John and Nancy Sabol 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Washington Foundation | $200,000 |
| FUSE Innovation Fund | $20,000 |
| UNITED WORLD COLLEGE-USA | $15,000 |
| BrightSpark Early Learning Services | $15,000 |
| MAASAI CULTURAL CONSERVATION FNDN | $10,280 |
| ETHEL WALKER ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| Program for Early Parent Support | $10,000 |
| United Way of King County | $10,000 |
| SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| The JOSH Foundation | $10,000 |
| Downtown emergency service center | $7,000 |
| Woodland park zoological society | $7,000 |
| Seattle children's hospital fund | $5,000 |
| Washington Progress Fund | $5,000 |
| Seattle academy of arts and sciences | $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 (FY17–24, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $402k · revenue +28%
THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER7× · 2018–2024 · $235k · revenue +34%- BEBrightspark Early Learning Services8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +279%
Funded once
- TBTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +39%
- TJTHE JOSH FUNDone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +2% · 44% of their budget
- WEWASHINGTON EARLY LEARNING FUND DBA THRIVE WASHINGTONone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
Advocate for tax policy in Washington State
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.
We are a community of cpas and financial professionals cultivating authentic relationships, unique learning experiences, and purposeful advocacy for our future.
Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…
WSA champions high-quality early learning through professional development, collaboration and advocacy for head start, early head start and early childhood education and assistance programs (ECEAP).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cascade Public Media and the most unlike its peers is Maasai Cultural Conservation Foundation. 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 36 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 37 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 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER ↗
- Who funds Brightspark Early Learning Services ↗
- Who funds Fuse Innovation Fund ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds Downtown Emergency Service Center ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Maasai Cultural Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds Washington Progress Fund ↗
- Who funds THE JOSH FUND ↗
- Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
- Who funds Win Win Network ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds PATH WITH ART ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER ↗
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 · Ridge Road Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Anthony-Maymudes Family Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Gates Foundation · Tides Foundation · David & Cathy Habib Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Raikes Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc
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 John and Nancy Sabol 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.