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Pruzan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$190k
Granted FY2019
41
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$70kEducation$56kHuman Services$51kPhilanthropy$51kReligion$24kEnvironment$7kCivil Rights$4kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2019 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 41 grants below total $158,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $189,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k36 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of King County$25,000
Jewish Family Service$17,000
University of Washington Foundation$10,000
Hillsdale College$10,000
Stroum Jewish Community Center$10,000
Community Foundation of Jackson$7,000
College Success Foundation$6,250
Velocity Dance Center$6,000
Tacoma Art Museum$5,500
Arts Fund$5,000
United Way of King County$5,000
Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at UW$5,000
Seattle Jewish Community School$3,600
Holocaust Resource Center For Humanity$3,500
Seattle Art Museum$2,500
02Your 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$183k · 28 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
10

Total granted

$183k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+102%

Still filing today

64%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +107%
  • A
    ARTSFUND
    2× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +318%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • CO
    Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • JH
    JACKSON HOLE SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +82%
  • JF
    Jewish Federation of Greater Houston - Hurricane Relief
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

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

03Your 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
Seattle Architectural Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Northwest Film Forum

Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…

Arts & Culture
3
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
6
Kirkland Arts Center

Cultivating quality arts experiences, connecting communities, and increasing creative engagement.

Arts & Culture
7
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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8
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
9
Maryhill Museum of Art

Maryhill Museum of Art ignites a journey of educational enrichment in the Columbia River Gorge by preserving and interpreting art and historic collections.

Arts & Culture
10
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.

Arts & Culture
11
Arts Council of Snohomish County

The schack art center offers inclusive and accessible arts programming that fosters creativity, engages the community and cultivates partnerships to enrich lives through the transformative power of the arts.

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12
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art C/O Denver Art Museu
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Annex Theatre. 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 backsteadyUnited Way AffiliatesCollege Foundation SupportPregnancy Support CentersEnvironmental Advocacy and …Professional Dance CompaniesCommunity Theater CompaniesWomen's Empowerment Organiz…Charter and Independent Sch…Community Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Jewish Community Federations
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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr15%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr15%57%55yr+

The field is 21% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,931

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.

03the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
28/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Stroum Jewish Community Center — $20,000 · OtherStroum Jewish Community CenterCommunity Foundation of Jackson — $12,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of JacksonChabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest — $10,000 · OtherChabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwes…Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at UW — $7,000 · OtherHillel Foundation for Jewish Life at UWNORTHEND JEWISH SCHOOL — $6,100 · OtherNORTHEND JEWISH SCHOOLSeattle Jewish Film Festival — $6,100 · OtherSeattle Jewish Film FestivalHolocaust Resource Center For Humanity — $6,000 · OtherHolocaust Resource Center For HumanityTEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI — $5,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE — $3,500 · Other+14 more — $21,500 · Other+14 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGECollege Success Foundation — $12,500 · EducationCollege Success Fou…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $11,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHI…THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON — $3,600 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRC…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationARTSFUND — $11,000 · Arts & CultureARTSFUNDVelocity Dance Center — $10,000 · Arts & CultureVelocity Dance Cent…Tacoma Art Museum — $8,500 · Arts & CultureTacoma Art MuseumPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $4,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUMMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART — $3,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST…Artist Trust — $3,000 · Arts & CultureArtist TrustSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $2,500 · Arts & CultureGAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $2,000 · Arts & CultureANNEX THEATRE — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KI…WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON WOMEN…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDER…+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $29,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY…UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE — $2,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY DI…+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesOutdoor Alliance — $2,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $4,150 · Civil Rights
Other$97,200Education$48,100Arts & Culture$48,000Philanthropy$39,000Human Services$32,000Environment$6,500Civil Rights$4,150

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTSFUND — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVelocity Dance Center — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHEND JEWISH SCHOOL — $6,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $4,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE — $3,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJACKSON HOLE SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART — $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetArtist Trust — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutdoor Alliance — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANNEX THEATRE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKline Galland Center — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADIA ART MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGiddens School — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts Corps — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…ArtsfundThe Conru FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Herman & Faye Sarkows…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Bernstein Family …Larry Benaroya Family…The Jon and Mary Shir…Samis FoundationJewish Federation of …
Seattle FoundationWA38.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · The Conru Foundation · United Way of King County · Herman & Faye Sarkowsky Charitable Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Bernstein Family Foundation · Larry Benaroya Family Foundation · The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation · Samis Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pruzan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pruzan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 51 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $405k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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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