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Kemper Freeman Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,003 |
| BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,503 |
| ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,092 |
| WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER | $2,763 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $2,724 |
| KINDERING CENTER | $2,500 |
| LIFE ENRICHMENT OPTIONS | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WA FOUNDATION | $1,783 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BELLEVUE | $1,503 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $1,503 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $1,503 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $1,503 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATON | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,164 |
| ORCAS CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- BCBELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +40%
- KCKINDERING CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +29%
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SHSACRED HEART SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $3k
- SJST JAMES CATHEDRALone grant, 2024 · $2k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PORTLANDone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +16%
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.
Bellevue college foundation brings together people and resources across the community to invest in bc students, faculty, and staff to realize their goals and dreams.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
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 present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
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…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
Seattle children's hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their…
Bellevue youth symphony orchestra enhances the lives of student musicians by providing dynamic musical experiences, fostering collaboration, confidence, and personal responsibility through the pursuit of artistic excellence.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seattle Homeless Outreach. 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 51 years old; the field is 15. 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 — 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 46 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 BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIFE ENRICHMENT OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds George Pocock Rowing Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL 981 ↗
- Who funds ORCAS OPEN ARTS ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER EASTSIDE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE HOMELESS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Lucky Seven Foundation · Sos Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Orcas Bay Foundation · Glasser Family Fund · Thanksgiving Foundation Bessemer Trust Company Na · Ash Family 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 Kemper Freeman 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.
- University of Portland — 1% 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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