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Mms Giving Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$532k
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$548kHealth$272kFood & Nutrition$245kArts & Culture$212kRecreation & Sports$64kEmployment$56kYouth Development$47kHuman Services$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $437k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEFFERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION$20,000
WEST SEATTLE FOOD BANK$20,000
SOUND$20,000
BALLARD FOOD BANK$20,000
WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK$20,000
SEATTLE AQUARIUM$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$20,000
HIGHLINE FOOD BANK$20,000
FARESTART$20,000
SEATTLE JAZZED$15,000
SEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
GARFIELD JAZZ FOUNDATION$15,000
VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$15,000
OUTDOORS FOR ALL FOUNDATION$15,000
WASHINGTON SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH ALLIANCE$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $300 → 17%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%SOUND GENERATIONS: $4k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $3k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $3k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $3k → 9%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 9%ELDERWISE: $10k → 9%BRIGHTSPARK EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $5k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 50 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
23

Total granted

$1.5M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+27%

Still filing today

86%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsHealthInternationalOther

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

  • TS
    THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $484k · revenue +156%
  • West Seattle Food Bank
    5× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +11%
  • WC
    WHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • PW
    PAWS WILDLIFE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

1
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
2
Siff

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.

Youth Development
3
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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4
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
5
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
6
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
7
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.

Community Improvement
8
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
9
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
10
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
11
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
12
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is West Seattle Tool Library. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAsian Cultural Heritage Org…History and Heritage MuseumsCommunity Food BanksCooperative PreschoolsIndependent Elementary Scho…Family Philanthropic Founda…Youth Mentoring & Developme…Christian Missionary Organi…Immigrant & Refugee Communi…College Access and Career P…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr12%34%35–55yr12%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr12%59%35–55yr12%9%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
13%
2,122/15,850

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
41/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $484,000 · AnimalsTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY+3 more — $16,500 · AnimalsPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $59,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK — $55,500 · OtherWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHIT…Moisture Festival — $54,000 · OtherMoisture FestivalHIGHLINE FOOD BANK — $40,000 · OtherHIGHLINE FOOD BANKBALLARD FOOD BANK — $30,000 · OtherSR3 — $30,000 · OtherOutdoors for all Foundation — $30,000 · OtherEarthcorps — $31,200 · OtherFARESTART — $35,000 · Other+41 more — $298,200 · Other+41 moreGAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT — $40,000 · Arts & CultureGAY CITY HEAL…THE RESIDENCY — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RESIDENCYMODE MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS — $24,500 · Arts & CultureMODE MUSIC AN…SEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS — $22,500 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE YOUTH…NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FOL…GARFIELD JAZZ FOUNDATION — $17,000 · Arts & CultureGARFIELD JAZZ…Seattle JazzED — $17,000 · Arts & CultureSeattle JazzE…BAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Arts & CultureBAINBRIDGE IS…Flying House Productions — $10,000 · Arts & CultureKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $8,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureConsejo Counseling & Referral Service — $45,000 · HealthSEATTLE ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH — $40,000 · HealthWashington School-Based Health Alliance — $15,000 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $12,000 · HealthMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $23,500 · Human ServicesSOUND GENERATIONS — $11,500 · Human ServicesBainbridge Youth Services — $10,000 · Human ServicesElderwise — $10,000 · Human ServicesSouthwest Youth And Family Services — $6,000 · Human ServicesBrightspark Early Learning Services — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $300 · Human ServicesWest Seattle Food Bank — $56,500 · Food & NutritionHIGHLAND FOOD BANK — $8,000 · Food & NutritionCOASTAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER — $13,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $10,000 · EducationHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EducationBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $7,000 · EducationSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,500 · EducationSOUTH END STORIES — $5,000 · EducationCOYOTE CENTRAL — $5,000 · Education
Animals$500,500Other$662,900Arts & Culture$206,000Health$112,000Human Services$71,300Food & Nutrition$64,500Education$53,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $484,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank — $56,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK — $55,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMoisture Festival — $54,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetConsejo Counseling & Referral Service — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFARESTART — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEarthcorps — $31,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RESIDENCY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMODE MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS — $24,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $23,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS — $22,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUND — $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST FOLKLIFE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ORGANIZATION — $18,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGARFIELD JAZZ FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSeattle JazzED — $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILYWORKS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOASTAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER — $13,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWhale Trail — $11,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Experiential Training Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetElderwise — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFlying House Productions — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEnvironmental Science Center — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND FOOD BANK — $8,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSouthwest Youth And Family Services — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOM CIRCUS MEDICAL CLOWING — $6,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrightspark Early Learning Services — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IF PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVASHON EVENTS — $3,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budget
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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…United Way of King Co…ArtsfundLucky Seven FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Real Progress Foundat…Grousemont FoundationGarneau Nicon Family …Mightycause Charitabl…Credit Unions in the …
Seattle FoundationWA62.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Artsfund · Lucky Seven Foundation · School's Out Washington · Real Progress Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington

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 Mms Giving 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mms Giving Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mms Giving Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 88 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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