How much did MEDINA FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of MEDINA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

leadership scholarshipexecutive leadershipsocial justicejustice northweststudentwhitman middlerefugee immigrant

2019

leadership nelineli scholarshiprise togetheremployee tacomaexecutive leadershipjobhonor pam

2020

covid responseafricatown landchief seattlenorthwest harvestperinatalformerlyeatonville

2021

youth recoverygrocery storestore cardsouth soundsophia waycongregations homelessduwamish tribal

2022

trustee anniversaryrfp professionalanniversary specialspecial trusteeanniversary trusteeukraine reliefgirls whatcom

2023

rfp professionalafrican housingpilotholidayrfp-professionalclimateaccess nwaaf

2024

professionalsacramentoequityaccess nwaaflibrarykinshipsspa

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 219 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k60 grants · $159k
$10k–50k150 grants · $3.9M
$50k–250k8 grants · $400k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$111M

Total assets

Largest grants

TACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$250,000
AMARA$50,000
FARESTART$50,000
HOPELINK$50,000
SOLID GROUND$50,000
ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY$50,000
TREEHOUSE$50,000
FOOD LIFELINE$50,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$50,000
VINE MAPLE PLACE$45,000
BOYER CHILDREN'S CLINIC$45,000
HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES$45,000
COCOON HOUSE$45,000
SEASHARE$40,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES OF WHATCOM COUNTY$40,000

02The need

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, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$30M · 331 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

331 repeat relationships — 155 still active in FY2024, 176 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

331

168

Total granted

$30M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+69%

Still filing today

70%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $793k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

FL
FOOD LIFELINE
5× · 2017–2024 · $276k · revenue +61%
AMARA
7× · 2017–2024 · $257k · revenue +80%
NH
NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES
6× · 2017–2024 · $253k · revenue +53%

Funded once

MB
MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +130%
CI
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON
one grant, 2017 · $68k
SG
SOLID GROUND WASHINGTONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +33%

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.

Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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Eastside Pathways

Transforming the way our community stakeholders work together, harnessing and aligning our individual and collective experience, to positively impact the lives of children and youth; intergenerationaly. we mobilize individuals and public,…

Education

Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation

Education

Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, focusing on children, youth, and families. through grantmaking, capacity building, research, and advocacy, the organization works across housing, education,…

Health

Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties

To build long-lasting conflict solutions between to people and groups across Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.

Crime & Legal

Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize communit

Environment

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

Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter

Nourish Pierce County

To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.

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Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services

Washington Bikes

The organization advocates for the rights of people who ride bikes and holds officials accountable working with them to shape policies.

Recreation & Sports

Southwest Washington Equity Coalition

The Southwest Washington Equity Coalition advances racial equity through dismantling structural white supremacy, creating transformational action, and advocating for our community. We remain rooted in Re-Indigenization, Black Liberation,…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Prevention Education and the most unlike its peers is Greentrike. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%5/356

the rest of the field

11%

2,752/24,718

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.

05the grantee network

351 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

145

Early backer (in before they grew)

341/351

Grantees still filing

288/351

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$16,865,839Human Services$7,027,540Education$2,289,163Housing & Shelter$2,278,852Youth Development$2,017,858Health$1,809,438Community Improvement$973,268

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.

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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE183.8× affinity143 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · NW Childrens Foundation · School's Out Washington · Lucky Seven Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Employees Community Fund · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Greater Tacoma Community 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 organisation MEDINA 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GRAYS HARBOR YOUTH WORKS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 471881152 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GRAYS HARBOR YOUTH WORKS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Medina Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Medina Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MEDINA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

351 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Medina Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MEDINA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

351 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Medina Foundation?

More from the funding graph