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Puget Sound Energy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
451
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$2.3MHuman Services$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MFood & Nutrition$994kEnvironment$904kEducation$716kHealth$542kOther$0
02FY2024 · 451 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k430 grants · $876k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$100,000
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY$22,000
SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION$15,750
HOPELINK$15,000
ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK$15,000
LIVING WELL KENT COLLABORATIVE$15,000
UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY$12,500
PIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,200
UNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY$10,000
VASHON HOUSE HOLD$10,000
OLYMPIA SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN$10,000
BLACK DIAMOND COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION$10,000
KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%PUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $20k → 9%VASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS: $25k → 9%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $10k → 9%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $10k → 9%SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $10k → 10%ROCHESTER ORGANIZATION OF FAMILIES: $15k → 9%HOPESOURCE: $25k → 11%PACIFIC MOUNTAIN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $10k → 9%HOPESOURCE: $20k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $10k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 12%APOYO INCORPORATED: $10k → 11%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICE: $50k → 12%SENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY: $25k → 7%SENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY: $20k → 7%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF BELLINGHAM: $25k → 12%SENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY: $10k → 7%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $25k → 12%THE SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 11%WHATCOM FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $25k → 10%THE SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 11%THE CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15k → 9%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $10k → 11%CIELO PROJECT RADIO RANCH: $10k → 9%SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $15k → 9%BRIGID COLLINS HOUSE: $15k → 12%KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $15k → 10%KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $15k → 10%HOPESPARKS: $15k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $25k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 9%PEACOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 10%HELPLINE HOUSE: $13k → 10%SKOOKUM KIDS: $15k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $15k → 12%KOREAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 9%SEATTLES BRAVEST CHARITY: $30k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $15k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $15k → 9%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 9%KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 9%CHINESE INFORMATION AND SERVICE: $20k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $20k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $15k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $25k → 9%FACING HOMELESSNESS: $25k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Puget Sound Energy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Puget Sound Energy Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.9M · 574 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

574 repeat relationships — 234 still active in FY2024, 340 since wound down; 96 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

574
572

Total granted

$7.9M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+23%

Still filing today

84%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • TM
    The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
    7× · 2017–2024 · $303k · revenue +92%
  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +89%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • PN
    PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2020 · $259k · revenue -84%
  • GC
    GOLD CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
  • PO
    PRINCE OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $60k

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.

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Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
2
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
3
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
4
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition
6
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
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Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
8
Project Access Northwest

Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.

Health
9
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
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Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.

Community Improvement
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Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

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Washington Food Coalition

To strengthen hunger relief providers in WA State.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transformations By Seattle Angels and the most unlike its peers is Hope Recovery Center. 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 backsteadyLabor Union AdvocacyIndependent Elementary Scho…Youth Music EducationImmigrant Community Organiz…Employee Health Benefits Tr…Ethnic & Faith Community Ce…Rotary Clubs & Service Orga…Youth Baseball and Softball…Fraternal Service Organizat…School Athletic Booster Clu…Youth Soccer ProgramsPacific Northwest Conservat…Community Food BanksLive Theatre & Dance Compan…Elementary School PTAsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionFaith-Based International O…Family Philanthropic Founda…Faith-Based Health SystemsCommunity Arts EducationProfessional & Industry Ass…Recreational Sports ClubsLocal Chambers of CommerceLocal History MuseumsAffordable Housing Developm…Professional Trade Associat…Public School Scholarship F…
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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr12%32%35–55yr13%29%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%12/1,141
the rest of the field
13%
3,167/23,547

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.

05the grantee network

1011 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. 1011 of the 1,260 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
295
Early backer (in before they grew)
982/1011
Grantees still filing
699/1011
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - NORTHWEST CHAPTER — $336,000 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - NORTHWE…PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $258,850 · OtherPHILANTHROPY NORTHWESTAMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC - PACIFICMOUNTAIN AFFILIATE — $100,718 · Other+81 more — $2,007,281 · Other+81 moreUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $467,951 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $232,797 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNT…UNITED WAY OF WHATCOM COUNTY — $183,478 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WHATCOM COUN…UNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY — $165,308 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COU…UNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY — $150,245 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNT…UNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $149,942 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH CO…United Way of Skagit County — $128,485 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Skagit Count…SEATTLE FOUNDATION — $101,134 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY — $78,655 · Philanthropy+8 more — $265,280 · Philanthropy+8 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $105,350 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red C…SENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY — $73,895 · Human ServicesHOPESOURCE — $60,000 · Human Services+59 more — $1,475,862 · Human Services+59 moreNISQUALLY LAND TRUST — $500,000 · EnvironmentNISQUALLY L…The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust — $303,339 · EnvironmentThe Mountai…+1 more — $23,500 · EnvironmentPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $42,026 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground Washington — $40,065 · Housing & ShelterANACORTES FAMILY CENTER — $37,500 · Housing & ShelterSkagit Valley Hospitality House Association — $31,250 · Housing & ShelterHousing Resources Bainbridge — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCOCOON HOUSE — $26,204 · Housing & ShelterTHE RESCUE MISSION — $25,923 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING HOPE — $25,125 · Housing & ShelterPANZA — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterEXODUS HOUSING — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE — $20,503 · Housing & ShelterKULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $18,800 · Housing & ShelterSNOQUALMIE VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY — $101,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $52,625 · EducationKing County Library System Foundation — $43,900 · EducationOLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $23,550 · EducationBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $21,025 · EducationSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $20,613 · EducationSkagit Valley College Foundation — $20,000 · EducationSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $15,750 · EducationCASCADIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,250 · EducationWILD WHATCOM — $14,500 · EducationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc — $13,523 · EducationSkagit Preschool and Resource Center — $13,500 · EducationFOOD LIFELINE — $215,302 · Food & NutritionLIVING WELL KENT COLLABORATIVE — $32,500 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $20,550 · Food & NutritionTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $20,090 · Food & NutritionCentral Kitsap Food Bank — $19,062 · Food & NutritionGoodRoots Northwest — $17,000 · Food & NutritionTenino Community Service Center — $15,500 · Food & NutritionThe Storehouse Inc — $13,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,702,849Philanthropy$1,923,275Human Services$1,715,107Environment$826,839Housing & Shelter$387,396Education$355,236Food & Nutrition$353,504

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNISQUALLY LAND TRUST — $500,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $467,951 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust — $303,339 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $258,850 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $232,797 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $215,302 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WHATCOM COUNTY — $183,478 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY — $165,308 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY — $150,245 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $149,942 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetUnited Way of Skagit County — $128,485 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $105,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $101,134 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY — $101,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON — $86,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY — $78,655 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY — $73,895 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHOPESOURCE — $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $56,449 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Skagit Valley Family YMCA — $55,288 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLYDIA PLACE — $54,750 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $52,625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $50,089 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetVASHON ALLIED ARTS — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetKITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER — $50,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetKITSAP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County — $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKing County Library System Foundation — $43,900 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER — $43,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $42,026 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound — $40,300 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWHATCOM FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $40,170 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOMES FIRST — $40,142 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSolid Ground Washington — $40,065 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPUGET SOUND KIDNEY CENTERS FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetANACORTES FAMILY CENTER — $37,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $37,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHELPLINE HOUSE — $36,100 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNourish Pierce County — $35,237 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY — $35,235 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH THURSTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $35,113 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetMULTICARE SOUTH KING HEALTH FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPUYALLUP FOOD BANK — $34,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOPELINK — $34,317 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH — $33,612 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTIONS — $33,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH KITSAP FISHLINE — $33,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS — $33,007 over 6y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds NISQUALLY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WHATCOM COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Skagit County ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HOPESOURCE ↗
  • Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds The Skagit Valley Family YMCA ↗
  • Who funds LYDIA PLACE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds VASHON ALLIED ARTS ↗
  • Who funds KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KITSAP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Snohomish County ↗
  • Who funds King County Library System Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ↗
  • Who funds WHATCOM FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FIRST ↗

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 FoundationFood LifelineMoccasin Lake Foundat…Employees Community F…Lucky Seven FoundationNorthwest Harvest EmmGarneau Nicon Family …United Way of King Co…Windermere FoundationCredit Unions in the …Real Progress Foundat…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA221.9× affinity302 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · Food Lifeline · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Lucky Seven Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · United Way of King County · Windermere Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Real Progress 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 Puget Sound Energy 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
116report 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.

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How do I get to Puget Sound Energy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Puget Sound Energy 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 1260 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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