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Kulakala Point Foundation at a glance

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Kulakala Point 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.

$305k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$379kEducation$179kEnvironment$175kPublic Benefit$137kHealth$50kScience & Tech$45kCrime & Legal$20k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ducks Unlimited Inc$50,000
University of Montana Foundation$50,000
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Foundation$30,000
Seattle Art Museum$25,000
Seattle Arcs Foundation$25,000
Lakeside School Annual Fund$25,000
Evergreen Freedom Foundation$25,000
Washington Policy Center$25,000
Seattle Symphony$25,000
The Hoover Institution$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GOLDWATER INSTITUTE: $3k → 11%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL FUND ALUMNI & DEV SERVICES: $3k → 8%The Hoover Institution: $25k → 8%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%JUDICIAL WATCH: $1k → 14%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $50k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $107k → 9%MASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 11%UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL: $1k → 9%GOLDWATER INSTITUTE: $3k → 11%THE HOOVER INSTITUTION - STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%JUDICIAL WATCH: $1k → 14%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $50k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $96k → 9%MASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 11%Ducks Unlimited Inc: $50k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $50k → 9%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $25k → 17%SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $30k → 9%Seattle Art Museum: $25k → 9%LAKESIDE SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $25k → 9%Lakeside School Annual Fund: $25k → 9%LAKESIDE SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $20k → 9%LAKESIDE SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $2k → 9%LAKESIDE SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $1k → 9%Seattle Arcs Foundation: $25k → 9%SEATTLE ARCS FOUNDATION: $20k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MT
MA
CA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Kulakala Point Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 57%.

Kulakala Point Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$822k · 12 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$822k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+91%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureCivil RightsCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +26%
  • WP
    WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER
    3× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +89%
  • MC
    MASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • FF
    FREEDOM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • DU
    DUCKS UNLIMITED
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • PL
    Pacific Legal Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +91%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

1
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
10
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
11
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
12
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mason County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 21 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKESIDE SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $72,615 · OtherLAKESIDE SCHOOL ANNUAL FUNDSEATTLE SYMPHONY: $55,524 · OtherSEATTLE SYMPHONYVirginia Mason Franciscan Health Foundation: $50,000 · OtherVirginia Mason Franciscan Health Founda…Seattle Arcs Foundation: $45,186 · OtherSeattle Arcs FoundationEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $45,186 · OtherEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATIONFREEDOM FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherFREEDOM FOUNDATIONDUCKS UNLIMITED: $25,000 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITEDMASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · Other+2 more: $7,587 · OtherSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $308,561 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUMDucks Unlimited Inc: $150,464 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited I…THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERS…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationTHE BOARD O…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $12,587 · EducationDUKE UNIVER…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $60,182 · Civil RightsPacific Legal Foundation: $20,000 · Crime & LegalBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $5,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$341,098Arts & Culture$308,561Environment$150,464Education$98,587Civil Rights$60,182Crime & Legal$20,000Public Benefit$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $308,561 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $150,464 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $60,182 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $45,186 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $12,587 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Kulakala Point Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kulakala Point Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Waldorf School: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kulakala Point Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kulakala Point Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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