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Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$569k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2024
40
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
32 to 49
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalAnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving37$569k30%
FY202340$540k28%
FY202248$567k38%
FY202140$407k18%
FY202049$354k45%
FY201937$302k41%
FY201832$219k25%
FY201733$148kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$545kHuman Services$488kEducation$422kInternational$349kAnimals$308kYouth Development$305kHousing & Shelter$162kEnvironment$148kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Overlake School$370,76280%
Seva Foundation$168,10051%
Pasado's Safe Haven$154,25081%
Hopelink$117,00070%
Youthcare$106,00080%
Bridge of Promise$97,10034%
Ho'Ola Na Pua$95,00031%
Youth Eastside Services$85,00080%
Seattle Children's Hospital$77,60050%
Childhaven$75,00040%
Show all 97 grantees
All grantees of Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Overlake School$370,76280%
Seva Foundation$168,10051%
Pasado's Safe Haven$154,25081%
Hopelink$117,00070%
Youthcare$106,00080%
Bridge of Promise$97,10034%
Ho'Ola Na Pua$95,00031%
Youth Eastside Services$85,00080%
Seattle Children's Hospital$77,60050%
Childhaven$75,00040%
Ryther$75,00080%
Camp Korey$70,00041%
The Humane Society for Seattleking County$66,50070%
Kindering Center$65,00070%
Multi-Service Center$62,00060%
Hawaiian Humane Society$61,00030%
Friends of Youth$55,00060%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$53,00050%
Community Passageways$51,00021%
Watumull Family Childrens Fund$45,500111%
Northwest Harvest Emm$45,00040%
Sudan Relief Fund Inc$40,00020%
Modest Needs Foundation$35,90051%
Valentino Achak Deng Foundation$31,20045%
Roots Young Adult Shelter$30,50031%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund$30,00050%
Human Rights Campaign Inc$30,00050%
Reef Guardians Hawaii$30,00039%
Great Peninsula Conservancy$28,50050%
Choose 180$27,50021%
Year Up Inc$25,00030%
Rainier Scholars$25,00030%
Kuleana Coral Reefs$21,00031%
NW Childrens Foundation$20,00021%
Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center$16,50050%
Farestart$15,00020%
Northwest African American Museum$12,50040%
Old Dog Haven$12,00050%
The Prison Scholar Fund$12,00021%
Seattle Nativity School$12,00040%
Days For Girls International$11,00010%
Chapman University$10,50060%
Rainier Valley Food Bank$10,00020%
Crossroads Housing$10,00010%
Evidence Action$10,00010%
Buildon Inc$10,00040%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Earthjustice$10,00020%
Africatown Community Land Trust$10,00011%
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio$9,10080%
North Mason Food Bank$9,00030%
DeliverFund$7,50020%
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust$6,00030%
Honolulu Museum of Art$5,50040%
Cortneys Place$5,00010%
Breakthrough T1d$5,00010%
Equal Justice Initiative$5,00010%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$5,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00010%
First Nations Development Institute$5,00010%
National Immigration Law Center$5,00020%
The Midnight Mission$5,00010%
Holt International Children's Services Inc$5,00010%
Renton Technical College Foundation$5,00010%
The Clear Fund$4,50010%
Central Area Parents & Coaches Association$4,0001n/a
Focusing Philanthropy Inc$3,50020%
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc$3,50030%
United States Fund for Unicef$2,50020%
Renton Schools Foundation$2,50011%
Seattle Theatre Group$2,50030%
Black Farmers Collective$2,50012%
Sankara Eye Foundation USA$2,06010%
The Lighthouse for the Blind Inc$2,00010%
African Wildlife Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Humane Society of Mason County$2,00012%
Oceana Inc$2,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc$2,00010%
Seattles Union Gospel Mission$1,5002n/a
Sayaji U Ba Khin Vipassana Foundation$1,50010%
Seattle Repertory Theater Foundation$1,20010%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,20020%
The Fistula Foundation$1,00010%
The Salvation Army$1,0001n/a
Gideons Promise Inc$1,0001n/a
Shining Hope for Communities Inc$1,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
Bayview Manor Homes$1,00010%
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc$1,00010%
Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group$1,00010%
Bishop Museum$1,00010%
West Hawaii Humane Society Inc$1,00018%
Mercy for Animals Inc$1,00010%
Issaquah Alps Trails Club$50010%
Palm Springs Art Museum$25010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($420k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Overlake School: $370,762 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSeva Foundation: $168,100 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPasado's Safe Haven: $154,250 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHopelink: $117,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYouthcare: $106,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBridge of Promise: $97,100 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetHo'Ola Na Pua: $95,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYouth Eastside Services: $85,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSeattle Children's Hospital: $77,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildhaven: $75,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRyther: $75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Korey: $70,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Humane Society for Seattleking County: $66,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKindering Center: $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMulti-Service Center: $62,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHawaiian Humane Society: $61,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Youth: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $53,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Passageways: $51,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWatumull Family Childrens Fund: $45,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSudan Relief Fund Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetModest Needs Foundation: $35,900 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetValentino Achak Deng Foundation: $31,200 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetRoots Young Adult Shelter: $30,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWashington Conservation Action Education Fund: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHuman Rights Campaign Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetReef Guardians Hawaii: $30,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetGreat Peninsula Conservancy: $28,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChoose 180: $27,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYear Up Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRainier Scholars: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKuleana Coral Reefs: $21,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNW Childrens Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLittle Bit Therapeutic Riding Center: $16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFarestart: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest African American Museum: $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOld Dog Haven: $12,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Prison Scholar Fund: $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSeattle Nativity School: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDays For Girls International: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChapman University: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRainier Valley Food Bank: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Housing: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEvidence Action: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuildon Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 93.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationWA44.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Medina Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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.

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About Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation

How much does Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation give?
Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $568,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (17%), Human Services (16%), Education (14%).
Who are Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Overlake School ($371k), Seva Foundation ($168k), Pasado's Safe Haven ($154k).
Does Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, United Way of King County.
Where is Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation based?
Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation is based in WA.

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 130 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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