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Mary E Nolting Family Foundation at a glance

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Mary E Nolting Family 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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$59kHealth$14kInternational$10kReligion$9kArts & Culture$5kPublic Benefit$5kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$5,125
Median grant
1
States reached
$399k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
350 TACOMA$10,615
NISQUALLY LAND TRUST$5,125
GRUB$3,000
WA PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBI$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DEMOCRACY NOW: $2k → 17%WILDERNESS AWARENESS SCHOOL: $4k → 9%GRUB: $4k → 9%ST LEO'S PARISH: $6k → 9%POSITIVE FUTURES NETWORK YES MEDIA: $2k → 10%SET FREE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $3k → 18%INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $1k → 14%DEMOCRACY NOW: $2k → 17%WILDERNESS AWARENESS SCHOOL: $3k → 9%GRUB: $3k → 9%SIDEWALK RESCUE: $1k → 9%YES MAGAZINE: $1k → 10%WILDERNESS AWARENESS SCHOOL: $2k → 9%NISQUALLY LAND TRUST: $10k → 9%350 TACOMA: $11k → 9%DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES: $4k → 9%NISQUALLY LAND TRUST: $5k → 9%350 TACOMA: $8k → 9%WA PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBI: $3k → 9%NISQUALLY LAND TRUST: $5k → 9%FEED 253: $3k → 9%WASHINGTON PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $6k → 9%NISQUALLY LAND TRUST: $5k → 9%PIERCE COUNTY AIDS FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%WASHINGTON PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $4k → 9%NISQUALLY LAND TRUST: $5k → 9%FEED 253: $3k → 9%HILLTOP URBAN GARDENTACOMA SEED: $2k → 9%RAINBOW CENTER: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Mary E Nolting Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 83%.

Mary E Nolting Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 7 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$84k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-11%

Still filing today

71%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NL
    NISQUALLY LAND TRUST
    5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue -42%
  • 3T
    350 Tacoma
    2× · 2024–2025 · $19k
  • WP
    Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue -24%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LEOS PARISH
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • DT
    DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES DBA DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +19%
  • SF
    SET FREE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Northwest Progressive Institute

The Northwest Progressive Institute is a social welfare organization working to raise everyone's equality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy. NPI's projects and publications promote policy development based on…

Civil Rights
2
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
3
InvestigateWest

The purpose of the organization is to use the tools of investigative journalism to enhance democracy and community in the region pointing out and correcting injustice and abuse of power and promoting citizen engagement. The organization is…

Arts & Culture
4
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
5
Washingtonians for Public Banking

Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…

Community Improvement
6
Civil Survival Project

Civil Survival organizes system-impacted people, provides legal representation and reentry support, and advocates for policy reform to restore opportunity to communities harmed by the criminal legal system in Washington State.

Community Improvement
7
Pacific Marine Research

The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…

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8
Pacific Rivers

Education, advocacy and research related to the conservation of watersheds, rivers, and aquatic species.

Environment
9
Washington Innocence Project

Washington Innocence Project (WashIP) works to free innocent Washington State prisoners, improve our criminal legal system through education and advocacy, and support the wrongly convicted in Washington State as they rebuild their lives in…

Crime & Legal
10
The Urbanist

Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.

Community Improvement
11
The Urbanist Fund

Support Public Interest Journalism in Washington State

Public Benefit
12
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sentencing Project; the most unlike its peers is Sidewalk Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NISQUALLY LAND TRUST: $30,125 · EnvironmentNISQUALLY LAND TRUST350 Tacoma: $18,615 · Environment350 TacomaThe Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School: $8,500 · OtherThe Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awarenes…GRUB: $7,000 · OtherGRUBST LEOS PARISH: $6,000 · OtherST LEOS PARISHFEED 253: $6,000 · OtherFEED 253DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES DBA DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES INC: $4,000 · OtherDUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES DBA DUWAMISH TRIBAL …WA PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBI: $3,000 · OtherWA PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBISET FREE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $2,500 · OtherSET FREE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPHILLTOP URBAN GARDENTACOMA SEED: $2,000 · OtherPierce County Aids Foundation: $2,000 · Other+4 more: $4,500 · Other+4 moreWashington Physicians for Social Responsibility: $10,000 · InternationalWashingto…DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePOSITIVE FUTURES NETWORK DBA YES MEDIA: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRainbow Center: $2,000 · Civil RightsBOOKS TO PRISONERS: $1,500 · EducationSIDEWALK RESCUE: $1,000 · Religion
Environment$48,740Other$45,500International$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000Civil Rights$2,000Education$1,500Religion$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNISQUALLY LAND TRUST: $30,125 over 5y, 0.2% of budget350 Tacoma: $18,615 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetWashington Physicians for Social Responsibility: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES DBA DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPierce County Aids Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainbow Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOOKS TO PRISONERS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOSITIVE FUTURES NETWORK DBA YES MEDIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIDEWALK RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInstitute for Public Affairs: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 FoundationGreater Tacoma Commun…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary E Nolting Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary E Nolting Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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