· Private foundation
Meadowdale 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ECOTRUST | $10,000 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LAKEWOLD GARDENS | $5,400 |
| PACIFIC BONSAI MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT | $3,000 |
| ARBOR SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $2,500 |
| LAKEWOLD GARDENS | $2,500 |
| SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST | $1,500 |
| ALZAR SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| WINDCALL INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| ORDINARIE HEROES | $1,000 |
| PERUVIAN HEARTS | $1,000 |
| DARAJA EDUCATION FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Meadowdale Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 70% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- FOFriends of Lakewood6× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +144%
NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT8× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +53%
PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE8× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +467%
Funded once
- AASHOKAone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- SJSOCIAL JUSTICE FUNDone grant, 2024 · $3k
- HNHOUSE N2 HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +130%
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.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
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.…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
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 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…
Washington women's foundation is a strong and inclusive collective of informed women who together influence community transformation through individual and collective discovery, high-impact grant making and by listening to and respecting…
The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
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.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rsf Social Finance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Weyerhaeuser Family Foundationinc. 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 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 33 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 Friends of Lakewood ↗
- Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ARBOR SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEYERHAEUSER PACIFIC RIM BONSAI COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
- Who funds WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PERUVIAN HEARTS ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Daraja Education Fund ↗
- Who funds ALZAR SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds THE BLOSSER CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Windcall Institute ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds Ordinarie Heroes ↗
- Who funds HOUSE N2 HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds Oregon Psychoanalytic Center ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
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 Meadowdale 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Northwest Pilot Project — 6% of income from government
- Neskowin Coast Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% 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.