· Private foundation
Marcia Paulsell Zech 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RYTHER CHILD CENTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $1,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES | $1,000 |
| FAMILY WORKS | $1,000 |
| GOOD CHEER FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| SOUND GENERATIONS | $1,000 |
| MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OVERLAKE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CASCADE PBS | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY NW DIVISION | $500 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $500 |
| MERCER ISLAND YOUTH & FAMILY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +49%
- SGSOUND GENERATIONS6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +14%
- PMPIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
- KCKing County Library System Foundationone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
- CDCOUNTRY DOCTOR COMMUNITY CLINICSone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
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.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
Healthpoint strengthens communities and improves people's health by delivering quality services, breaking down barriers and providing access to all.
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
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.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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.…
Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds FAMILYWORKS ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds MERCER ISLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds LifeWire ↗
- Who funds Bike Works Seattle ↗
- Who funds MERCER ISLAND COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Island County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds GOOSEFOOT COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds King County Library System Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northwest Parkinsons Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gates Foundation · Medina Foundation · Catania Family Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Moccasin Lake Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
How this is measured
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