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Neil Family Fund
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Neil Family Fund’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Neil Family Fund named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $9k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS | $3,000 |
| THE MAESTRO FOUNDATION | $2,400 |
| SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| COMPASSION & CHOICES | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE | $300 |
| NICHOLS SCHOOL | $250 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $200 |
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $200 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO | $150 |
| THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC | $150 |
| PINE ISLAND CAMP | $100 |
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 (FY17–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2019, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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
- NYNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +52%
- TMTHE MAESTRO FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +56%
- SCSeattle Chamber Music Festival3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- C9CLASSICAL 981graduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +54%
- PSPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue -24%
- KPKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue +67%
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.
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.
To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera. seattle opera is vital to the dynamic cultural and civic life of our region and to the evolution of opera across the world.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
The san francisco symphony exists to inspire and serve audiences and communities throughout the bay area and the world through the power of musical performance.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
The mission of Spokane Public Radio is to provide high-quality, artistic, educational and informational radio programming, which enhances and enlivens the cultural life and civic discourse of its listening communities. Spokane Public Radio…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
Chamber music northwest creates and shares the beauty, inspiration, intimacy and transformative power of small ensemble music through: unforgettable concerts with the world's greatest musicians in a welcoming environment; (continued on…
The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coco Point Fund Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 22 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAESTRO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds COCO POINT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL 981 ↗
- Who funds Pine Island Camp ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Artsfund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Neil Family Fund 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.
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
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.