· Private foundation
John J and Georgiana Theodore Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES | $500 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY FRIDAY HARBOR | $500 |
| CHURCH OF BRETHREN | $500 |
| MONASTERY OF THE HOLY ARCHANGEL MICHAEL | $500 |
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY | $250 |
| PACIFIC MUSIC WORKS | $200 |
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 (FY21–21, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $950 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
- NONorthwest Opera in Schools Etcetera2× · 2017–2018 · $5k
- TPTHE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL2× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +23%
- POPROJECT OPPORTUNITY2× · 2017–2018 · $2k
Funded once
- HAHOLY APOSTLESone grant, 2018 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
- EBE B DUNN HISTORIC GARDEN TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +75%
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 mission of Orchestra Seattle | Seattle Chamber Singers is to enrich the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest through performance of great orchestral and choral literature; to introduce Northwest audiences to rarely heard works of…
Philharmonia Northwest contributes to the vitality of the classical music community in the Pacific Northwest by presenting professional concerts highlighting the diverse past and present repertoire for chamber orchestra. It is also…
Pbo creates transformative experiences for musicians and listeners who share in the exploration and celebration of historically inspired music. the professional orchestra presents world-class performances on period instruments for up to…
Camerata Pacifica's mission is to affect positively how people experience live performances of classical music. The Organization will engage our audience intellectually and emotionally by presenting the finest performance of familiar and…
The Esoterics is a Seattle-based vocal ensemble, dedicated to performing and perpetuating contemporary choral music from around the world.
Oregon Music Festival's mission is the performance, production, and promotion of classical music through orchestral, choral/orchestra, and chamber music.
The mission of Tacoma opera is to inspire, educate, and uplift our audiences in the puget sound region by presenting productions of high artistic quality using a combination of your emgerging artists, established local professionals and…
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
To provide world class orchestra & chamber music concerts, master classes, educational rehearsals and other music education opportunities, and pre-concert lectures for audiences in the Pacific Northwest at an affordable price and/or for…
PCO is a regional professionalensemble dedicated to sustaining and extending the rich heritage of classical music through inspiring performances and engaging educational programs designed to enrich our local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Record Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is E B Dunn Historic Garden Trust. 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 16 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 Northwest Opera in Schools Etcetera ↗
- Who funds THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF FRIDAY HARBOR ↗
- Who funds FOSS HOME & VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds E B DUNN HISTORIC GARDEN TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC MUSICWORKS ↗
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.
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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 J and Georgiana Theodore 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.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% 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.