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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.

$704k
Granted FY2020
58
Grants FY2020
7
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Onefamily’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Onefamily named its own grantees at scale: 42 organizations, $704k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

44
’19
42
’20
2
’21
1
’22
1
’23
1
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Philanthropy$3.7MInternational$259kHealth$239kHuman Services$232kHousing & Shelter$205kYouth Development$180kEducation$84kCrime & Legal$58kOther$0
02FY2020 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k24 grants · $181k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $388k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY CORPS$85,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
UNICEF$40,000
NAVAJO NATION$30,000
SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES - ELDERS WISDOM PROJECT$15,000
BUILDING CHANGES$15,000
YOUTHCARE$12,000
FAMILYWORKS$12,000
DOWNTOWN EMERGENCY SERVICE CENTER$12,000
BROADVIEW EMERGENCY SHELTER$12,000
REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE$10,000
THE LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$10,000
SAFEPLACE$10,000
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW$10,000
MARY'S PLACE$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN INDIAN INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%LIFEWIRE EASTSIDE DOMESTIC: $10k → 9%LIFEWIRE EASTSIDE DOMESTIC: $10k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $10k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $10k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $9k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $9k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $9k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $9k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $12k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $12k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $8k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $6k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $8k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 54 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
4

Total granted

$1.2M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+25%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    2× · 2019–2020 · $110k · revenue +21%
  • CH
    CARING HEARTS INTERNATIONAL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $84k · revenue +41% · 40% of their budget
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    2× · 2019–2020 · $65k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • MC
    MERCY CORPS FOR BAHAMAS RELIEF - HURRICANE DORIAN
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • PF
    PEACE FOR THE STREETS BY KIDS FROM THE STREETS
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • COMMUNITY FOR YOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
2
Ywca Pierce County

Transforming lives through safety, healing and empowerment.

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3
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
4
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
5
Youth Eastside Services

Youth Eastside Services (YES) is a lifeline for kids and families coping with challenges such as emotional distress, substance abuse, and violence. Through intervention, outreach and prevention, YES build confidence and responsibility,…

Health
6
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
7
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
8
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
9
Family Violence Law Center

FVLC helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention services, offer prevention for…

Crime & Legal
10
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
11
Sage Advocacy Center

Educate, advocate, and empower to end violence.

—
12
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Beginnings and the most unlike its peers is American Indian Institute. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPacific Northwest Conservat…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…Refugee and Immigrant Servi…Affordable Housing Developm…At-Risk Youth Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr18%45%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr18%88%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr12%4%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
13%
2,122/15,870

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 64 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
39/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $3,695,272 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCPRESTWOOD PARENT-TEACHER ORG — $70,000 · OtherPRESTWOOD PARENT-…Individual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant …SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES - ELDERS WISDOM PROJECT — $40,000 · OtherNAVAJO NATION — $30,000 · Other+34 more — $582,500 · Other+34 moreMercy Corps — $110,000 · InternationalCARING HEARTS INTERNATIONAL — $84,100 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $65,000 · InternationalYOUTHCARE — $24,000 · Human ServicesSAFEPLACE — $20,000 · Human ServicesLifeWire — $20,000 · Human ServicesRefugee Womens Alliance — $20,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK — $20,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House INC — $18,000 · Human ServicesBrightspark Early Learning Services — $18,000 · Human ServicesElizabeth Home — $16,000 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $12,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING CHANGES — $30,000 · HealthDowntown Emergency Service Center — $24,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF YOUTH — $20,000 · HealthNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH — $18,000 · HealthCRISIS CONNECTIONS — $16,000 · HealthMaris Place — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentPongo Publishing Inc — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOCOON HOUSE — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$3,695,272Other$772,500International$259,100Human Services$193,000Health$108,000Youth Development$62,000Housing & Shelter$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $3,695,272 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARING HEARTS INTERNATIONAL — $84,100 over 6y, 40% of budgetPRESTWOOD PARENT-TEACHER ORG — $70,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHCARE — $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILYWORKS — $24,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAFEPLACE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLifeWire — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOTLATCH FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINDIAN LAW RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKing County Sexual Assault Resource Center — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place — $20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTEEN FEED — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJumping Mouse Childrens Center — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood House INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURES — $18,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOYOTE CENTRAL — $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAPI CHAYA — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrightspark Early Learning Services — $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENCOMPASS NORTHWEST — $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute — $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetElizabeth Home — $16,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTIONS — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBike Works Seattle — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPongo Publishing Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetFARESTART — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetArts Corps — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLemur Conservation Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOR YOUTH — $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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.

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Medina FoundationSeattle FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Gates FoundationReal Progress Foundat…Fales Foundation TrustNW Childrens Foundati…Washington Federal Fo…Employees Community F…Moccasin Lake Foundat…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA60.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gates Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · NW Childrens Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Moccasin Lake Foundation

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 Onefamily 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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