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Linda Nordstrom 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT PARK | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $36,000 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHWEST | $20,000 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| MAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY | $10,000 |
| BASTYR UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| EAGLE WINGS DISABILITY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| MAUI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
35 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- YEYouth Eastside Services6× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +80%
- SWSAFE WATER NETWORK3× · 2020–2023 · $111k · revenue +117%
SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TCTATEUCHI CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SCSEATTLE CHILDRENSone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
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.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
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.
Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…
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;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Backpack Meals for Kids. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 47 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 Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE WATER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE WINGS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENSHO ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds MAUI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EL DORADO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bastyr University ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Life Support ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bungie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 Linda Nordstrom Family 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.
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