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Pinkerton 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETHEL CHURCH OF REDDING | $30,000 |
| BETHEL CHURCH OF REDDING | $30,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $25,000 |
| THE VINE CHURCH OF KENMORE | $17,500 |
| JDRF INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| VISION HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BETHANY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $6,500 |
| REIGN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| CANYON HILLS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SHORELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JDRF INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HEIGHTS FKA THE PURPOSE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- VHVISION HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +98%
- NANOT ABANDONED9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +77%
- SCSHORELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -19%
- JIJDRF INTERNATIONAL - JDRF SEATTLE GUILDone grant, 2023 · $12k
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC-WASHINGTONALASKAone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
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.…
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
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…
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.
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.
Saving lives through research, innovation, education and excellence in blood, medical and laboratory services in partnership with our community.
To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.
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,…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
The sophia way is a place of hope and change for women. we support them on their journey from homelessness to safe and stable living.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Kenmore Pta. 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 104 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 BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NOT ABANDONED ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LAW CENTER OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds NATIONS MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associatio Evergreen Chapter ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ashleys Kitten Academy ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds National Nordic Museum ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TELEIOS ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL ↗
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 · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Servant Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · The Bungie Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Washington Federal 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 Pinkerton 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% 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.