· Private foundation
Lenore Hanauer 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $605k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIVIC EDUCATION FUND | $400,000 |
| MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT INC | $75,000 |
| WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH | $50,000 |
| RAVE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $50,000 |
| KING COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTER | $45,000 |
| CONSERVATION NORTHWEST | $40,000 |
| REPROHUB | $40,000 |
| RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| LOW INCOME HOUSING INST | $30,000 |
| YOUTHCARE | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $535k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
73 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY5× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $725k · revenue +98%- NHNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH8× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- AFALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITYone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +14%
- SCSEATTLE CARES CIRCLE OF THE NATIONAL CARES MENTORING MOVEMENTone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +23%
- BSBAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -12%
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.
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.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
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.…
Advocate for tax policy in Washington State
Our mission is inspiring conservation of our marine environment.
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
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…
Humanities washington (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. we envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsfund and the most unlike its peers is Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 85 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds Civic Education Fund ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds King County Sexual Assault Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Rave Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION NW ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GROWING VETERANS ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD PET ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BIRDS CONNECT SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds REPROHUB ↗
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 · The Norcliffe Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Artsfund · Lucky Seven Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Impactassetsinc
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 Lenore Hanauer 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.
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% 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.