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Original Art 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 FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA INC | $50,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INVESTED | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| OPENSECRETS | $2,500 |
| REFUGEE ARTISAN INITIATIVE | $2,500 |
| SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP | $2,500 |
| ARTIST TRUST | $2,500 |
| PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| SEATTLE MUSICIANS ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- SCSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $115k · revenue -25%
- STSEATTLE TENNIS & EDUCATION2× · 2024–2025 · $110k · revenue 0%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue 0%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%- FCFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +10%
- SASEATTLE ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.
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.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
Advocate for tax policy in Washington State
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…
Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Education and the most unlike its peers is Sarvey Wildlife Care Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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 SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE TENNIS & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds INVESTED ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Education ↗
- Who funds FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Refugee Artisan Initative ↗
- Who funds OPENSECRETS ↗
- Who funds Artist Trust ↗
- Who funds Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE MUSICIANS ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds SARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Satya and Rao Remala Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Artsfund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gates 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 Original Art 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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