· Private foundation
Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k17 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $388k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OVERLAKE SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| SEVA FOUNDATION | $63,600 |
| The Watumull Family Children's Fund | $45,500 |
| YOUTHCARE | $40,000 |
| BRIDGE OF PROMISE | $32,100 |
| PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN | $25,250 |
| Sudan Relief Fund | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| HOPELINK | $25,000 |
| HOOLA NA PUA | $25,000 |
| TREEHOUSE FOR KIDS | $20,000 |
| SEATTLE FESTIVAL OF TREES FOR AUTISM | $20,000 |
| RYTHER | $15,000 |
| YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES | $15,000 |
| KINDERING CENTER | $15,000 |
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, $523k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
63 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 11 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- TOTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $371k · revenue +161%
- SFSEVA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $168k · revenue +50%
- PSPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN8× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
- DFDays For Girls Internationalgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +45%
- SFSEATTLE FESTIVAL OF TREESone grant, 2019 · $11k
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.
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.…
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…
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.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is West Hawaii Humane Society Inc. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 130 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 THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF PROMISE ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds RYTHER ↗
- Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MULTI-SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS ↗
- Who funds WATUMULL FAMILY CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MODEST NEEDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds REEF GUARDIANS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE 180 ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds KULEANA CORAL REEFS ↗
- Who funds NW Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
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 · 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
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 Lynn and Bruce Gibson 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.
- Year Up Inc — 0% 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.
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