· Private foundation
Mowry Jay Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN | $5,000 |
| PENINSULA HANDS ON ART | $5,000 |
| PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| IGNITE | $5,000 |
| PUGET SOUNDKEEPERS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HARBOR HISTORY MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $3,500 |
| SYMPHONY TACOMA | $3,000 |
| HI LINERS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +84%
- LLLONG LIVE THE KINGS4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +116%
- PSPUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- UTUnleash the Brillianceone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -3%
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
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.
Neighborhood revitalization and community economic development within the Pioneer Square district of Seattle
Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.
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.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
Magic Canoe is a champion of a reimagined future that is driven by local-based bottom-up regenerative solutions for a more equitable and healthier bioregion that is Salmon Nation.
Pacific science center (pacsci) ignites curiosity in every child and fuels a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking in all of us.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds LONG LIVE THE KINGS ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY TACOMA ↗
- Who funds Peninsula Hands On Art Inc ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC ↗
- Who funds IGNITE WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds Outdoors for all Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mission Africa ↗
- Who funds THE HI-LINERS ↗
- Who funds PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Unleash the Brilliance ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds Refugee Artisan Initative ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Artsfund · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Meacham Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mowry Jay Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mowry Jay Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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