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Keta Legacy Foundation

KETA LEGACY FOUNDATION is dedicated to passing the best possible environmental legacy to ensuing generations.

$59k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
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02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$190kRecreation & Sports$56kAnimals$30kHealth$15k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,867, the rows itemized in this filing. The $59,277 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,410 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,867
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALISH SEA SCHOOL$10,867
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $15k → 14%NOT AN ALTERNATIVE: $15k → 9%KWIAHT: $15k → 10%SEA DISCOVERY CENTER: $15k → 10%THE SALISH SEA SCHOOL: $11k → 11%RE SOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: $13k → 12%KILLER WHALE TALES: $15k → 9%GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $15k → 10%WILD WHATCOM: $10k → 12%WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $16k → 9%BEAVERS NORTHWEST: $14k → 9%THE MOUNTAINEERS: $39k → 9%EARTHCORPS: $15k → 9%BRAIDED RIVER: $15k → 9%BRAIDED RIVER: $10k → 9%WORLD RELIEF SEATTLE: $15k → 9%WHALE SCOUT: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $16k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$16k · 100% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION EDUCATION

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Pacific Marine Research

The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…

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2
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
3
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
4
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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5
Discover Your Northwest

Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.

Recreation & Sports
6
10000 Years Institute

10,000 Years Institute evaluates the ecological effects of human activities on natural environments, and promotes the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity through the integration of reliable scientific information, sound…

Unclassified
7
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
8
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-Seacc

SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…

Environment
9
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
10
Northwest Environmental Advocates

Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.

Environment
11
Wild Orca

Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.

Animals
12
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Peninsula Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is Not an Alternative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MOUNTAINEERS: $39,375 · EnvironmentTHE MOUNTAINEERSBRAIDED RIVER: $25,420 · EnvironmentBRAIDED RIVERWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $16,466 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUNDGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · EnvironmentGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCYKILLER WHALE TALES: $15,000 · EnvironmentKILLER WHALE TALESRE SOURCES: $12,908 · EnvironmentRE SOURCESTHE SALISH SEA SCHOOL: $10,867 · EnvironmentTHE SALISH SEA SCHOOLSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION: $10,390 · EnvironmentSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATIONWHALE SCOUT INC: $15,000 · AnimalsWHALE SCOUT INCDefenders of Wildlife: $15,000 · AnimalsDefenders of Wild…BEAVERS NORTHWEST: $14,440 · AnimalsBEAVERS NORTHWESTCENTENNIAL TRAIL COALITION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $16,875 · OtherCENTENNIAL T…WORLD RELIEF SEATTLE: $15,000 · OtherWORLD RELIEF…FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $15,000 · EducationFOUNDATIO…WILD WHATCOM: $9,610 · EducationWILD WHAT…Earthcorps: $15,000 · InternationalKWIAHT CENTER FOR SALISH SEA: $15,000 · HealthNOT AN ALTERNATIVE INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$145,426Animals$44,440Other$31,875Education$24,610International$15,000Health$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MOUNTAINEERS: $39,375 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRAIDED RIVER: $25,420 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $16,466 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEarthcorps: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWHALE SCOUT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetKWIAHT CENTER FOR SALISH SEA: $15,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOT AN ALTERNATIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKILLER WHALE TALES: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRE SOURCES: $12,908 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SALISH SEA SCHOOL: $10,867 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION: $10,390 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWILD WHATCOM: $9,610 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Rose Foundation f…The Norcliffe Foundat…The Hugh and Jane Fer…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…Seattle FoundationGary E Milgard Family…Kaleidoscope Foundati…The Russell Family Fo…The Satterberg Founda…ArtsfundPatagoniaorg
The Rose Foundation for Communities the EnvironmentCA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark · Kaleidoscope Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Artsfund · Patagoniaorg

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Keta Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keta Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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