· Private foundation
Marjorie Mosher Schmidt 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETHANY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $50,000 |
| SERVING ORPHANS WORLDWIDE | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| SEMESTER AT SEA | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| UKRAINE FOCUS | $15,000 |
| GUTENBERG COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| SALESIAN | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BONNER SCHOOL PTA | $14,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 18 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $102k · revenue +32%
- GCGutenberg College Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue +52%
- SCSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- VSVICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES OFone grant, 2021 · $10k
- OFORANGEWOOD FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +92%
- NSNORTH SEATTLE COLLEGE EDUCATIONone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…
West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.
Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…
Sea mar community health centers is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational, and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to latinos.
Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…
Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.
We provide community members facing homlessness with chelter, resurces, and advoccy to create a strong and thriving widbey island.
Using Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) and oral communication we prepare deaf and hard-of-hearing children to be self-confident, articulate and academically competitive learners, and engaged community members.
To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…
Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is San Gabriel Cemetery Association. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 140 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 Serving Orphans Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Gutenberg College Inc ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEMECULA PLAY & LEARN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION ↗
- Who funds GIVING IT BACK TO KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EVERETT GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds Lincoln ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds Whittier College ↗
- Who funds Quilting For Community ↗
- Who funds EVERETT RECOVERY CAFE ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
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: Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington · United Way of Snohomish County · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Medina Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Evertrust 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Marjorie Mosher Schmidt 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.
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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