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Konzen Family 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.

$8.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Environment$3.3MInternational$3.2MHealth$1.7MAnimals$1.3MReligion$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MRecreation & Sports$525kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $384k
  • $50k–250k45 grants · $4.8M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.2M
$80,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$243M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNTAIN TO SOUND GREENWAY$650,000
SEATTLE UNION GOSPEL MISSION$507,500
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$500,000
SEATTLE CHILDRENS' HOSPITAL GUILD$395,000
PLANT WITH PURPOSE$393,460
AGROS INERNATIONAL$260,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$250,000
NEW STORY$250,000
MISSION FLIGHT$227,000
NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE$225,000
WORLD VISION FOUNDATION$200,000
NORTHWEST FAMILY LIFE$200,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$180,000
SOLID GROUND WASHINGTON$175,000
WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION$175,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 14%BECAUSE PEOPLE MATTER: $10k → 10%NEW STORY: $250k → 14%NEW STORY: $100k → 14%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $80k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $50k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $75k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $5k → 9%NORTHWEST FAMILY LIFE: $200k → 9%NORTHWEST FAMILY LIFE: $50k → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $50k → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $29k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $100k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $50k → 9%THE MORE WE LOVE: $150k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
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MI
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CA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 65 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

65 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
14

Total granted

$13M
$595k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+33%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $600k · revenue +27%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $350k · revenue +7%
  • SG
    Solid Ground Washington
    4× · 2022–2025 · $350k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • RC
    RED CROSS
    one grant, 2021 · $280k
  • AV
    AMERICAN VINEYARD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -12%
  • MP
    Maris Placegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +42%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
3
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
9
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agros International and the most unlike its peers is National Humane Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesEquine Therapy ProgramsSenior Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Military Veterans SupportLocal History MuseumsAnimal Rescue and ShelterSchool District FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Addiction Recovery ServicesPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr15%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr15%21%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/87
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,881

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.

04the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 104 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/83
Grantees still filing
37/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION — $1,157,500 · OtherSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSIONMOUNTAIN TO SOUND GREENWAY — $700,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN TO SOUND GREENWAYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $500,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSEATTLE CHILDRENS' HOSPITAL GUILD — $495,000 · OtherSEATTLE CHILDRENS' HOSPITAL GUILDWORLD VISION FOUNDATION — $439,066 · OtherWORLD VISION FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $325,000 · OtherRED CROSS — $280,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $275,000 · OtherFOOD LIFELINE — $250,000 · Other+43 more — $2,588,980 · Other+43 moreAGROS INTERNATIONAL — $560,000 · InternationalAGROS INTERNATIO…FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED — $549,905 · InternationalFLORESTA USA INC…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $330,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…MISSION FLIGHT — $275,000 · InternationalMISSION FLIGHTUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $150,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FU…International Rescue Committee INC — $139,600 · InternationalInternational Re…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $125,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR …+4 more — $179,500 · International+4 moreNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE — $350,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DOME…NEW STORY INC — $350,000 · Human ServicesNEW STORY INCMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $275,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE …Northwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center — $250,000 · Human ServicesNorthwest Fam…The More We Love — $150,000 · Human ServicesThe More We L…BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER — $150,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE RECEIV…SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $130,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVIC…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS — $83,890 · Human Services+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $600,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST F…ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE — $175,000 · EnvironmentALASKA WILD…Honnold Foundation — $155,000 · EnvironmentHonnold Fou…American Forests — $150,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Fo…CLEAN WASHINGTON WATERS — $105,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WASHI…AMERICAN RIVERS INC — $80,000 · EnvironmentCanopy Planet Foundation — $75,000 · Environment+4 more — $170,000 · Environment+4 moreLAHAI HEALTH — $730,241 · HealthRACING FOR KIDS — $110,000 · HealthMotorcycle Missions — $70,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $60,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO — $50,000 · Health+2 more — $60,000 · HealthTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $300,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $175,000 · AnimalsCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST — $125,000 · AnimalsRAVEN ROCK RANCH — $100,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $80,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $80,000 · AnimalsNational Humane Society — $50,000 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $40,000 · Animals+2 more — $55,000 · AnimalsSolid Ground Washington — $350,000 · Housing & ShelterCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS — $345,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$7,010,546International$2,309,005Human Services$1,858,890Environment$1,510,000Health$1,080,241Animals$1,005,000Housing & Shelter$695,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAHAI HEALTH — $730,241 over 2y, 26% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $600,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAGROS INTERNATIONAL — $560,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED — $549,905 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE — $350,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEW STORY INC — $350,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSolid Ground Washington — $350,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS — $345,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $330,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $325,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $275,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION FLIGHT — $275,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center — $250,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE — $175,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHonnold Foundation — $155,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Forests — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER — $150,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetJubilee REACH — $150,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $139,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE VETERINARY OUTREACH — $138,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL — $130,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $130,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST — $125,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND — $110,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRACING FOR KIDS — $110,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetThe Parlor Room — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRAVEN ROCK RANCH — $100,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS — $83,890 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $80,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCanopy Planet Foundation — $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMotorcycle Missions — $70,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHISPA PROJECT — $54,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetUPSTATE FILMS LTD — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Credit Unions in the …Garneau Nicon Family …Employees Community F…Moccasin Lake Foundat…M J Murdock Charitabl…Bacon Family Foundati…Eastside Community AidMark Torrance Foundat…The Foster Foundation
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE27.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Moccasin Lake Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Bacon Family Foundation · Eastside Community Aid · Mark Torrance Foundation · The Foster 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 Konzen Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
  • The Parlor Room — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines