· Private foundation
Mg2 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER | $175,200 |
| LAKE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| COSTCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,000 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD | $10,000 |
| THE HOME DEPOT FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $5,158 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC | $2,500 |
| READ ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| HOMESTREET FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ARCHITECTS WITHOUT BORDERS SEATTLE | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 46% of Mg2 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- FHFred Hutchinson Cancer Center2× · 2023–2024 · $330k · revenue +9%
- LWLAKE WASHINGTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $42k · revenue +5%
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD)2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue 0%
FACING HOMELESSNESSone grant, 2018 · $21k · revenue -225%- AMACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +0%
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.
We champion the central role of architects in creating and sustaining a better built environment.
Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.
Fundraising activities to support Seattle University
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Support Public Interest Journalism in Washington State
The seattle colleges foundation catalyzes community support to advance the mission, work and impact of seattle colleges. we engage our community to transform lives, promote equity and increase access to quality, affordable education.
Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
The foundations impact pillars include wealth creation for low-income and marginalized communities, supporting small businesses, investing in our communities, and providing services for immigrant communities.
FIUTS connects university students with local and global communities through cross-cultural experiences, student leadership, and community connections.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ace Mentor Program of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Homestreet Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 34 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 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LAKE WASHINGTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD) ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds FACING HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHITECTS WITHOUT BORDERS SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific NW Center for Architecture and Design ↗
- Who funds Homestreet Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CACA COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds ICHS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Refugee Artisan Initative ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House INC ↗
- Who funds WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Artsfund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Mg2 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.