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Mariners Care

The primary exempt purpose of MARINERS CARE is to support youth-oriented community service programs & other worthy projects in the pacific northwest.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$382k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$683kHealth$540kYouth Development$227kEmployment$225kPhilanthropy$170kEducation$140kFood & Nutrition$83kArts & Culture$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $787,712 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,044,938 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $257,226 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $382k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$332k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$382,354
DOWNTOWN EMERGENCY SERVICE CENTER$100,000
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY$50,000
SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION$37,000
PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED$28,000
SOUNDVIEW LITTLE LEAGUE$20,000
BASEBALL BEYOND BORDERS$17,850
FRIENDS OF BASEBALL$15,000
SOUTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$12,184
BACKPACK BRIGADE$11,334
EL1 SPORTS$11,192
SEATTLE CENTRAL LITTLE LEAGUE$10,000
EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA$10,000
WAHLUKE HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $16k → 14%YIC LAUNCH PAD: $10k → 9%HOPES AND DREAMS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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WA
NY
OR
CA
NC
DC
HI
FL

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.

03Your 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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$972k · 22 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
32

Total granted

$972k
$932k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+39%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • GM
    Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation
    4× · 2018–2022 · $102k · revenue +95%
  • BB
    BASEBALL BEYOND BORDERS
    5× · 2019–2024 · $99k · revenue +91%
  • SP
    SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $57k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • UH
    UNITE HERE NORTHWEST HEALTH TRUST FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $348k · revenue +79%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2021 · $225k
  • RA
    RAINIER ATHLETES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +9%

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

04Your 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
Fm Sports Baseball Club

FM Sports Baseball Club helps develop, train, and promotes players ages 13 to 18 for long term success in high school, college, and beyond.

Recreation & Sports
2
Puyallup Babe Ruth & Cal Ripken Baseball League

Provide Baseball Leaugues and tournaments

Recreation & Sports
3
Little League Baseball Inc

adult volunteers helping on average ~300 children each year ages 4-12 in East Vancouver WA area to grow and develop by working as a team to achieve goals and have fun.

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4
Seattle United Fc

Soccer club that brings premier and select teams under one management. league play and academy training for all players.

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5
Seattle Youth Soccer Association

Provide organized soccer for the youth in seattle

Recreation & Sports
6
Northwest United Fc

Northwest United is a premier youth soccer club serving Skagit County and surrounding areas. As one of the top clubs in the Pacific Northwest, we have grown to 41 teams across boys and girls' divisions, offering year-round development for…

Recreation & Sports
7
Lake Washington Youth Soccer Association

To provide opportunities for all youths under the age of 19 develop character and play affiliated soccer at a level commensurate with their ability and interest.

Recreation & Sports
8
Bonney Lake Baseball Association

Organized youth sports

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9
Bellevue Youth Soccer Club

To provide opportunities for all youths under the age of 19 to develop character and play affiliated soccer at a level commensurate with their ability and interest.

Recreation & Sports
10
Pacific Northwest Soccer Club

PacNW offers top-level soccer training and development opportunities for players aged U8 through U19, all of whom are trained using the club's deliberate, integrated, long-term plan for player development.

Recreation & Sports
11
Northwest Girls Softball-Fastpitch

To foster, develop, and promote recreational girls youth softball.

Recreation & Sports
12
Little League Baseball Inc

An athletic program for youth that teaches and reinforces the values of teamwork, sportsmanship, citizenship and physical well being. Our organization is guided by the leadership of community orientated volunteers. We serve over 600…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Baseball and the most unlike its peers is Dragon Elite Baseball Club. 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 backsteadyUnion Member Benefit PlansYouth Sports LeaguesAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Leadership & Justice …School Parent-Teacher Organ…Independent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Healthcare Syst…Food Banks and Hunger Relief
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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%6%<5yr15%12%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr12%34%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/66
the rest of the field
13%
4,012/29,931

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
31/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $382,354 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITE HERE NORTHWEST HEALTH TRUST FUND — $347,960 · OtherUNITE HERE NORTHWEST HEALTH TRUST FUNDUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation — $102,284 · OtherGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks FoundationELYSIAN ONE INC — $70,896 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $55,000 · Other+32 more — $444,467 · Other+32 moreBASEBALL BEYOND BORDERS — $99,425 · Recreation & SportsBASEBALL BEY…SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $57,000 · Recreation & SportsSEATTLE PARK…Bandits Breer Fastpitch — $32,375 · Recreation & SportsBandits Bree…Pro Baseball Club — $23,637 · Recreation & SportsPro Baseball…Seattle Fastpitch Club — $18,740 · Recreation & SportsSeattle Fast…WASHINGTON LADYHAWKS FASTPITCH ORGANIZATION — $17,369 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON L…Gamers Sports Travel — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+6 more — $39,275 · Recreation & Sports+6 morePLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $68,229 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS …CHOOSE 180 — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHOOSE 180FRIENDS OF BASEBALL — $49,800 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF…You Grow Girl — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentYou Grow G…RAINIER ATHLETES — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentRAINIER AT…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…SEATTLE FOUNDATION — $125,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $60,000 · PhilanthropyDowntown Emergency Service Center — $100,000 · HealthSOUTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES — $27,184 · HealthPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $41,000 · EducationYOUR MONEY MATTERS — $25,000 · EducationCollege Success Foundation — $22,500 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $15,654 · Human ServicesHOPES AND DREAMS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA — $10,000 · Human ServicesYIC Launchpad — $9,503 · Human Services
Other$1,627,961Recreation & Sports$297,821Youth Development$248,029Philanthropy$185,000Health$127,184Education$88,500Human Services$45,157

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 budgetUNITE HERE NORTHWEST HEALTH TRUST FUND — $347,960 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation — $102,284 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBASEBALL BEYOND BORDERS — $99,425 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $68,229 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $57,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOOSE 180 — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF BASEBALL — $49,800 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $41,726 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $41,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBandits Breer Fastpitch — $32,375 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetYou Grow Girl — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES — $27,184 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRAINIER ATHLETES — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYOUR MONEY MATTERS — $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPro Baseball Club — $23,637 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKent Little League — $20,101 over 1y, 17% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEDERAL WAY NATIONAL LITTLE LEAGUE — $20,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSeattle Fastpitch Club — $18,740 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWASHINGTON LADYHAWKS FASTPITCH ORGANIZATION — $17,369 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $15,654 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Seattle Business Assn Scholarship Fund — $15,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SEATTLE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACKPACK BRIGADE — $11,334 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARVEST AGAINST HUNGER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGamers Sports Travel — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLESCHI PTA — $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetYIC Launchpad — $9,503 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetDRAGON ELITE BASEBALL CLUB — $7,850 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMIGUEL CABRERA FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA GRAPETTES GRLS SOFTBALL — $7,157 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSeattle Baseball Academy — $6,039 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALL PONO — $5,490 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

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 FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…School's Out Washingt…The Norcliffe Foundat…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Credit Unions in the …Medina FoundationLucky Seven FoundationAven FoundationFales Foundation TrustBuilding Changes
Seattle FoundationWA30× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · School's Out Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Medina Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Aven Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Building Changes

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 Mariners Care 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Miguel Cabrera Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mariners Care?

Find your warmest path to Mariners Care 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 68 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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