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Loeb Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2023
68
Grants FY2023
13
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Philanthropy$874kEducation$677kHuman Services$543kReligion$448kArts & Culture$372kHealth$163kInternational$155kRecreation & Sports$137kOther$0
02FY2023 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 68 grants below total $1,090,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,233,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $143,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k38 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $449k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $530k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pomona College$125,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle$100,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle$100,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle$55,000
Jewish Family Service$50,000
Claremont Colleges Hillel Council$50,000
Amara$50,000
Stroum Jewish Community Center$40,000
Temple de Hirsch Sinai$36,000
Hillel at University of Washington$35,000
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee$25,000
Hebrew Free Loan Association$25,000
Outdoors for All Foundation$25,000
Year Up Puget Sound$25,000
Seattle College Foundation$25,000
02Your 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 57 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
24

Total granted

$2.8M
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+17%

Still filing today

67%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • POMONA COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $265k · revenue +87%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $188k · revenue +97%
  • AMARA
    3× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of the NW /HI, Ind/Ken
    one grant, 2020 · $56k
  • WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +64%
  • UF
    UW Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $26k

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

03Your 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
Siff

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.

Youth Development
2
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
5
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
6
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
7
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
8
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
9
Seattle Foundation

Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.

Philanthropy
10
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
11
Association of Washington Cities

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…

12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Waterwheel Foundation. 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 backsteadyJewish Community FederationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports ProgramsGovernment Accountability &…Community Hospital SystemsUrban Agriculture EducationPregnancy Support CentersAsian American Civic & Cult…Private Grantmaking Foundat…Local History MuseumsCharter and Independent Sch…Lgbtqia+ Advocacy and Commu…Food Pantries and AssistanceIndigenous Community Develo…Education Equity InitiativesCollege Foundation SupportCommunity Arts CentersCommunity Theater CompaniesPublic Library SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…United Way Affiliates
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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr15%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr15%64%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/59
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,909

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.

03the grantee network

57 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 90 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
41/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI — $177,000 · OtherTEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAIStroum Jewish Community Center — $165,000 · OtherStroum Jewish Community CenterYear Up Puget Sound — $150,000 · OtherYear Up Puget SoundHillel at University of Washington — $150,000 · OtherHillel at University of WashingtonPlanned Parenthood GNHAiK — $70,000 · OtherKINDERING CENTER — $62,000 · OtherHolocaust Center For Humanity — $60,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of the NW /HI, Ind/Ken — $56,000 · OtherHILLEL AT THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES — $110,000 · OtherHILLEL AT THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES+43 more — $418,634 · Other+43 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE — $635,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREAT…UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $187,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY+3 more — $21,000 · PhilanthropyPOMONA COLLEGE — $265,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGECollege Success Foundation — $80,000 · EducationCollege Success …THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON — $60,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP C…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $35,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNA…SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $32,000 · EducationSEATTLE PUBLIC L…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $27,000 · Education+6 more — $31,500 · Education+6 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $188,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY…AMARA — $115,000 · Human ServicesAMARAHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON STATE — $71,000 · Human ServicesHEBREW FREE L…WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $40,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FA…YOUTHCARE — $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE+2 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $92,500 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $62,500 · InternationalNorthwestern University — $86,000 · Recreation & SportsOutdoors for all Foundation — $50,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $500 · Recreation & Sports5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $59,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $32,500 · Arts & CultureARTSFUND — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Glass — $8,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $9,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,418,634Philanthropy$844,000Education$530,500Human Services$446,000International$155,000Recreation & Sports$136,500Arts & Culture$123,500

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE — $635,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $265,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $188,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $187,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMARA — $115,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHILLEL AT THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES — $110,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $92,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $86,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON STATE — $71,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $62,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKINDERING CENTER — $62,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity — $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON — $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budget5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $59,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY — $34,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHCARE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTSFUND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEMINIST WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAUAI FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFARESTART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE INDIAN HEALTH BOARD — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTILDEN SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Glass — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT FINE ARTS CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND — $1,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENSHO — $1,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY
  • Who funds AMARA
  • Who funds HILLEL AT THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
  • Who funds Northwestern University
  • Who funds College Success Foundation
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON STATE
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds KINDERING CENTER
  • Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON
  • Who funds 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Outdoors for all Foundation
  • Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY
  • Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE
  • Who funds SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds YOUTHCARE
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation
  • Who funds ARTSFUND
  • Who funds West Seattle Food Bank

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.

Seattle FoundationWA42.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Grousemont Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Artsfund · Herman & Faye Sarkowsky Charitable Foundation · Stroum Family 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Loeb Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Loeb Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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