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Mount Baker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant grouped by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.8MYouth Development$780kPhilanthropy$616kHuman Services$605kHousing & Shelter$135kHealth$114kPublic Benefit$63kCivil Rights$37kOther$0
02beneath the categories

What the grant descriptions say

Themes read from the grant descriptions, beneath the NTEE codes.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $904k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children of the Setting Sun Productions$2,500,000
University of Washington Foundation$249,000
Chuckanut Health Foundation$150,000
Individual grant recipient$124,000
Vamos Outdoors Project$90,000
Chuckanut Health Foundation$80,000
Immigrant Resources and Immediate Support (IRIS)$80,000
Immigrant Resources and Immediate Support (IRIS)$80,000
Common Threads Farm$51,000
Individuals with CKD various under$40,169
PFLAG$35,000
Bellingham Queer Collective$15,000
Northwest Washington Indian Health Board$10,000
United Church of Christ Lummi Island Congressional Church$10,000
Chuckanut Health Foundation$10,000
02The need
04

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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.
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.
$9.2M · 33 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

Of its 25 multi-year relationships, 5 repeat the same amount every year (11% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment.

It also reports $962k approved for future payment (Form 990-PF, Part XV): grants committed but not yet paid.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
37

Total granted

$9.2M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

64%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CO
    CHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN PRODUCT
    3× · 2022–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +260%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +11%
  • WF
    WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK
    4× · 2021–2024 · $756k · revenue +24% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • MH
    MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
  • WW
    Western Washington University
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
  • KT
    Kuleana Technology Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
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.

Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; a standing commitment is inferred from a level payment pattern.

case studies

Two relationships, up close

One grantee funded repeatedly and one funded once, each traced through its own filings.

OC

OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL

Conviction

Backed consistently across five grants

Mount Baker Foundation funded Opportunity Council five times between 2020 and 2024, committing a total of $380,000, a share that represented approximately 0% of the organization's revenue on a smoothed basis across those years. Over that same period, Opportunity Council's revenue grew 77%, and the organization continued filing; during this span it reported serving 2,847 households facing housing instability or homelessness, 1,563 individuals through employment and training programs, 892 low-income families through financial literacy education, and 487 homeless individuals and families through transitional housing programs.

5× · 2020–2024
Funded
$380k
Granted in total
0%
Peak share of budget
+77%
Their revenue since
MH

MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST

Funded once

Funded once, revenue up 21% since

Mount Baker Foundation made a single $1,000,000 grant to Mercy Housing Northwest in 2022, representing approximately 5% of the organization's revenue on a smoothed basis for the funded period. Since that grant, Mercy Housing Northwest's revenue has grown 21%, and the organization remains active; it has reported managing 45 affordable housing properties serving 3,500 households across Oregon and Washington, alongside supportive services including case management, mental health counseling, employment assistance, and emergency rental assistance.

once (2022)
Funded
$1.0M
Granted in total
5%
Peak share of budget
+21%
Their revenue since
How this is measured
Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source. We date what happened after a grant and do not claim the grant caused it.
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
Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center

Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.

Unclassified
2
Washington Food Coalition

To strengthen hunger relief providers in WA State.

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3
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
4
Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition
5
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
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
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
8
Whatcom Alliance for Healthcare Access C/O Chuckanut Health Fdn

Waha is a nonprofit organization based in bellingham, washington whose mission is to connect people to health care and facilitate transformation of the current system into one that improves health, reduces cost and improves the experience…

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9
West Seattle Food Bank

West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.

Food & Nutrition
10
Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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11
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
12
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whatcom Council On Aging; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 93 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
27/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST: $1,000,000 · OtherMERCY HOUSING NORTHWESTCHUCKANUT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $625,700 · OtherCHUCKANUT HEALTH FOUNDATIONLIGHTHOUSE MISSION MINISTRIES: $560,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE MISSION MINISTRIESCommunities in Schools: $300,000 · OtherCommunities in SchoolsWestern Washington University: $300,000 · OtherWestern Washington UniversityKuleana Technology Inc: $250,000 · OtherLYDIA PLACE: $250,000 · OtherMERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT #505: $227,045 · OtherImmigrant Resources and Immediate Support (IRIS): $210,000 · OtherWhatcom Center for Early Learning: $192,946 · Other+53 more: $1,361,723 · Other+53 moreCHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN PRODUCT: $2,810,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN…Washington State Family And Community Engagement Trust: $144,200 · PhilanthropyWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $131,611 · Philanthropy+1 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,549,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHI…COMMON THREADS FARM: $161,000 · EducationCOMMON THREADS FARMBellingham Technical College Foundation: $107,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $100,000 · EducationNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationWHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Education+4 more: $69,500 · EducationWHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK: $756,205 · Youth DevelopmentWHATCOM F…Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County: $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Gi…VAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT: $127,981 · Youth DevelopmentVAMOS OUT…OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $380,000 · Human ServicesWHATCOM FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $189,000 · Human ServicesWHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING: $125,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $45,000 · Human Services+2 more: $23,000 · Human ServicesInterfaith Coalition of Whatcom County: $100,000 · HealthUNITY CARE NORTHWEST: $50,000 · HealthDOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES OF WHATCOM COUNTY: $17,500 · HealthNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthKULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterROAD2HOME: $36,775 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,277,414Philanthropy$3,115,811Education$2,187,000Youth Development$1,024,186Human Services$762,000Health$180,000Housing & Shelter$136,775

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN PRODUCT: $2,810,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,549,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK: $756,205 over 4y, 36% of budgetCHUCKANUT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $625,700 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $380,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLYDIA PLACE: $250,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWhatcom Center for Early Learning: $192,946 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWHATCOM FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $189,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMON THREADS FARM: $161,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetWashington State Family And Community Engagement Trust: $144,200 over 3y, 11% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County: $140,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $131,611 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT: $127,981 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING: $125,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBellingham Technical College Foundation: $107,500 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT: $100,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetKULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetInterfaith Coalition of Whatcom County: $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTHE BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $69,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $68,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetUNITY CARE NORTHWEST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetROAD2HOME: $36,775 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetWILD WHATCOM: $35,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WHATCOM COUNTY: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWHATCOM HUMAN RIGHTS TASK FORCE: $27,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFERNDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES OF WHATCOM COUNTY: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBellingham SeaFeast: $13,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFatherhood the Foundation: $12,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetMAX HIGBEE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRestorative CommUnity Coalition: $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetINTERGENERATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WHATCOM LITERACY COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNORTHWEST WASHINGTON INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLAW ADVOCATES: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe AIROW Project: $8,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetRECREATION NORTHWEST: $8,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALISH CURRENT: $5,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNooksack Valley Food Bank Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBellingham Makerspace: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetChristian Hope Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

32 internal · 12 shared anchors

How its grantees work together

Interfaith Coalition partnered with Opportunity Council to continue operating its housing program and provide housing units to those in need in Whatcom County. It is one of 32 direct ties among 45 of its grantees, who also cluster around 12 shared regional anchors.

Inferred: ties are read by a model from news and organization websites, and each links to its source.

45
Grantees connected
32
Grantee↔grantee ties
12
Shared anchors (2+ grantees)
151
External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations; shared anchors pull toward the center

41 shown · 43 ties
Whatcom County Library System: $2k granted · 3 linksWHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k granted · 3 linksBellingham SeaFeast: $10k granted · 8 linksInterfaith Coalition of Whatcom County: $100k granted · 6 linksUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1.3M granted · 8 linksUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON …WHATCOM FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $189k granted · 3 linksKULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $100k granted · 3 linksUNITED WAY OF WHATCOM COUNTY: $30k granted · 3 linksSALISH CURRENT: $5k granted · 3 linksLYDIA PLACE: $250k granted · 7 linksLYDIA PLACEMERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST: $1.0M granted · 6 linksMERCY HOUSING NORTHWESTWHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK: $756k granted · 5 linksWHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNIT…WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING: $125k granted · 3 linksUNITY CARE NORTHWEST: $50k granted · 10 linksLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $63k granted · 3 linksNOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE: $20k granted · 12 linksWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $132k granted · 9 linksRECREATION NORTHWEST: $8k granted · 5 linksMERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT #505: $227k granted · 4 linksNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k granted · 3 linksCOMMON THREADS FARM: $110k granted · 5 linksWashington State Family And Community Engagement Trust: $144k granted · 4 linksLIGHTHOUSE MISSION MINISTRIES: $560k granted · 3 linksLIGHTHOUSE MISSION MINIST…LAW ADVOCATES: $8k granted · 9 linksLYNDEN SCHOOL DISTRICT 504: $20k granted · 6 linksVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT: $24k granted · 5 linksNOOKSACK SCHOOL DISTRICT: $30k granted · 9 linksROAD2HOME: $35k granted · 3 linksBellingham Technical College Foundation: $108k granted · 3 linksNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $40k granted · 6 linksBellingham Makerspace: $5k granted · 5 linksWILD WHATCOM: $35k granted · 8 linksWHATCOM HUMAN RIGHTS TASK FORCE: $27k granted · 3 linksWhatcom Center for Early Learning: $193k granted · 5 linksBlaine Elementary School: $20k granted · 6 linksOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $380k granted · 7 linksOPPORTUNITY COUNCILFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $100k granted · 5 linksBellingham School District: named by 3 granteesBellingham School DistrictHabitat for Humanity in Whatcom County: named by 3 granteesHabitat for Humanity in W…City of Bellingham: named by 6 granteesCity of BellinghamMount Baker School District: named by 3 granteesMount Baker School Distri…
grantee external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations, or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

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    corroborated Joint program
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    explicit Joint program
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    explicit Joint program
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Anchors several grantees share

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Joint program 116Affiliation 36Coalition 12Funding 7Referral network 6Fiscal sponsorship 3Collaboration 1Merger / affiliation 1Shared facility 1
How this is measured
Ties are extracted by a model from news and organization websites, not from tax filings, so they are directional rather than exhaustive. Corroborated ties were named independently by both organizations.
Cause groups: Civil Rights, Community Improvement, Education, Health, Housing & Shelter, Human Services, Other, Philanthropy, Public Benefit, Recreation & Sports, Unclassified, Youth Development

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.

Whatcom Community Fou…Chuckanut Health Foun…North Sound Accountab…Puget Sound Energy Fo…PeaceHealthFirst Fed FoundationJerry H Walton Founda…Mary H Storer Foundat…United Way of Whatcom…Eleanor and Henry Jan…The Norcliffe Foundat…The Albertsons Compan…
Whatcom Community FoundationWA83.5× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whatcom Community Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · PeaceHealth · First Fed Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Mary H Storer Foundation · United Way of Whatcom County · Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Albertsons Companies 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 Mount Baker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mount Baker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    19report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mount Baker Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mount Baker 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 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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