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November Thanksgiving Foundation at a glance

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November Thanksgiving 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.

$758k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.3MHuman Services$725kRecreation & Sports$333kHousing & Shelter$300kHealth$140kEnvironment$100kFood & Nutrition$75kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $583k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA SNOHOMISH COUNTY$333,333
IMAGINE CHILDRENS MUSEUM$250,000
NATURE CONSERVATORY$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY$50,000
CONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN$25,000
SALVATION ARMY$25,000
YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN: $25k → 12%YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER: $25k → 9%SCHOOL OF MEDICINE CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 17%NATURE CONSERVATORY: $50k → 9%HOUSING HOPE: $20k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 10%CONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN: $25k → 12%YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER: $25k → 9%SCHOOL OF MEDICINE CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 17%CAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $11k → 9%YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER: $25k → 9%HOUSING HOPE: $10k → 9%HOUSING HOPE: $10k → 9%HOUSING HOPE: $10k → 9%IMAGINE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $510k → 9%IMAGINE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $500k → 9%IMAGINE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $500k → 9%IMAGINE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $500k → 9%IMAGINE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $500k → 9%YMCA SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $333k → 9%IMAGINE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $300k → 9%YMCA OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $300k → 9%YMCA OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $300k → 9%IMAGINE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $250k → 9%IMAGINE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $200k → 9%YMCA OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $100k → 9%COCOON HOUSE: $100k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $50k → 9%COCOON HOUSE: $50k → 9%COCOON HOUSE: $50k → 9%COCOON HOUSE: $50k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $25k → 9%SCHACK ART CENTER: $10k → 9%SCHACK ART CENTER: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 8 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$4.5M
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+64%

Still filing today

63%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $408k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • IC
    IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +64%
  • CH
    COCOON HOUSE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $250k · revenue +51%
  • YF
    YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +60%
  • CF
    CAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +64%
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.

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
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
2
Snohomish County-Camano Association of Realtors

Representing real estate agents and brokers in Snohomish County and Camano Island, Washington, the Association provides its members with resources, education, and support to help them excel in their careers and serve their clients…

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3
Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health
4
Snohomish Education Foundation

The snohomish education foundation fosters learning by expanding opportunities for snohomish school district students.

Education
5
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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6
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
7
Workforce Development Council Snohomish County

Workforce snohomish invests government and private funding to continuously increase the global competitiveness and prosperity of our businesses and workforce, to fill current and emerging jobs, and to provide full employment. our…

Education
8
Mental Health Services of Snohomish County Ii

Mental health services of snohomish county ii operates hardeson commons, a twenty-unit facility that provides housing for chronically mentally ill persons.

Health
9
Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish

Domestic violence services of snohomish county is dedicated to ending domestic abuse by providing diverse and equitable services for individuals impacted by intimate partner violence, including their children, and by facilitating social…

Human Services
10
Economic Alliance Snohomish County Center for Business and Employment Dev

To foster job development, education, and training relevant to economic development in snohomish county.

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11
Snohomish County Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

To provide food, shelter, clothing and other services to people in need in our community.

Human Services
12
Housing Consortium of Everett and Snohomish County

The mission of the Consortium is to provide strategic leadership in crafting program and policy solutions to affordable housing challenges in Snohomish County.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Hope; the most unlike its peers is Cocoon House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $3,260,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM+1 more: $75,000 · Arts & CultureYMCA OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $700,000 · OtherYMCA OF SNOHOMISH COUNTYYMCA SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $333,333 · OtherYMCA SNOHOMISH COUNTYSCHOOL OF MEDICINE CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · OtherSCHOOL OF MEDICINE CASE WES…NATURE CONSERVATORY: $50,000 · Other+2 more: $40,000 · OtherCOCOON HOUSE: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING HOPE: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · HealthCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $11,357 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$3,335,000Other$1,213,333Housing & Shelter$300,000Education$50,000Health$50,000Philanthropy$50,000Youth Development$11,357

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $3,260,000 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $250,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetYELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHOUSING HOPE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $11,357 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING HOPE ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Snohomish County ↗
  • Who funds CAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗

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.

Evertrust FoundationThe Employee Communit…Hazel Miller Foundati…Leland J & Dorothy H …Community Foundation …Puget Sound Energy Fo…Enterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Evertrust FoundationWA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Evertrust Foundation · The Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington · Hazel Miller Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 November Thanksgiving Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from November Thanksgiving Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc: 24% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 14 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home