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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.

$207k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
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.

Religion$675kHealth$224kHousing & Shelter$83kEducation$73kYouth Development$51kPhilanthropy$44kCrime & Legal$43kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $128k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION$6,000
REIGN CHURCH$6,000
CANYON HILLS COMMUNITY CHURCH$5,000
JDRF INTERNATIONAL$5,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$5,000
SHORELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$5,000
MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION$3,000
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION$3,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHASING THE RAINBOWS: $250 → 9%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $3k → 9%MILLIONAIR CLUB INC: $1k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $10k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $4k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $4k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $2k → 9%HOPELINK: $2k → 9%HOPELINK: $2k → 9%HOPELINK: $250 → 9%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $3k → 9%THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SE: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CA
MD
AZ
TN
HI
OK
GA
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 52 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
43

Total granted

$1.2M
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+22%

Still filing today

60%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
HealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • VH
    VISION HOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +98%
  • NA
    NOT ABANDONED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +77%
  • SC
    SHORELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -19%
  • JI
    JDRF INTERNATIONAL - JDRF SEATTLE GUILD
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • LL
    LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC-WASHINGTONALASKA
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
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
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
2
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
3
Life Science Washington

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…

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4
Nexus Youth and Families

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…

Human Services
5
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
6
Horizon House

Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.

Human Services
7
Siff

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.

Youth Development
8
Bloodworks

Saving lives through research, innovation, education and excellence in blood, medical and laboratory services in partnership with our community.

Health
9
North Olympic Healthcare Network

To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.

Health
10
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

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,…

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11
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
12
The Sophia Way

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 104 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/65
Grantees still filing
40/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKE CITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $299,000 · OtherLAKE CITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBETHEL CHURCH OF REDDING: $91,000 · OtherBETHEL CHURCH OF REDDINGBETHANY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $82,750 · OtherBETHANY COMMUNITY CHURCHTHE VINE CHURCH OF KENMORE: $45,500 · Other+71 more: $432,500 · Other+71 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $55,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER …MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $32,500 · HealthMEDIC ONE FOU…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $32,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH …MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $26,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH F…+5 more: $16,500 · Health+5 moreVISION HOUSE: $52,500 · Human ServicesHOPELINK: $24,250 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $14,750 · Human ServicesRESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL: $6,500 · Human ServicesSHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE: $5,500 · Human Services+3 more: $3,250 · Human ServicesSHORELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $37,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationEASTSIDE ACADEMY: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $1,500 · EducationNOT ABANDONED: $43,000 · Crime & LegalUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $40,000 · PhilanthropyFarms for Life: $1,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDRENS LAW CENTER OF WASHINGTON: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROVIDENCE HEIGHTS: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$950,750Health$162,500Human Services$106,750Education$45,000Crime & Legal$43,000Philanthropy$42,500Youth Development$32,000

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 budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $52,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNOT ABANDONED: $43,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHORELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $37,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS LAW CENTER OF WASHINGTON: $27,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $26,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHOPELINK: $24,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associatio Evergreen Chapter: $16,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFARESTART: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONS MEDIA: $16,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $14,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAshleys Kitten Academy: $12,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetJosiah Venture: $11,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Nordic Museum: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $9,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTELEIOS: $9,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAHAI HEALTH: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEIGHTS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Women in Need: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUIPNET: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHunger Intervention Program: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRESILIENT HEARTS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTSIDE ACADEMY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeral Cat SpayNeuter Project: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFarms for Life: $1,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetStewardship Partners: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenmore PTA: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associatio Evergreen Chapter ↗
  • Who funds FARESTART ↗
  • Who funds NATIONS MEDIA ↗
  • 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 NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Servant FoundationGlassybaby White Ligh…The Bungie FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…The Signatry Charitab…Elizabeth a Lynn Foun…Lucky Seven FoundationWashington Federal Fo…
Seattle FoundationWA31.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report 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
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 104 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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The regranting layer
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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