· Private foundation
Koh-Lee Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOW INCOME HOUSING INITIATIVE | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $1,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN (TO GAZA CRISIS) | $900 |
| OXFAM - CHILDREN OF GAZA AND ISRAEL EMERGENCY APPEAL | $900 |
| CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING | $500 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD | $500 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS | $500 |
| CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | $500 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FAMILY BUSINESS SCHOOL | $400 |
| CHINESE INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER | $200 |
| KCTS 9 AKA CASCADE PBS | $200 |
| BELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY | $200 |
| SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $200 |
| KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO | $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 (FY18–24, $7k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- PAPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM2× · 2020–2023 · $31k · revenue +11%
- MPMaris Place5× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +80%
- CIChinese Information and Service Center2× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- UEUW Engineering endowed professorshipone grant, 2021 · $500k
- AHASIAN HEALTH FUNDone grant, 2017 · $14k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $9k
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights, and to take action to further those liberties and rights within the state of washington.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
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…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the 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.
To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights, and to take action to further those liberties and rights within the state of washington.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Horizons 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 12% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 100 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 PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds Chinese Information and Service Center ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BABIES OF HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Jubilee REACH ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for International Understanding Through ↗
- Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Koh-Lee 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.