· Public charity
Rave Foundation
To build small fields for free play and invest in programs that use soccer as a vehicle to inspire youth and strengthen communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $160,068 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $229,959 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $69,891 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC | $30,000 |
| DRAGONS FC | $16,145 |
| CHIEF LESCHI SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE PARKS FDN | $10,000 |
| COCREATIVE CULTURE | $7,500 |
| CITY OF TUKWILA | $7,500 |
| AMERICA SCORES | $7,500 |
| RAT CITY FC | $7,500 |
| INTERCITY SOCCER LEAGUE | $7,500 |
| CITY OF PASCO | $7,500 |
| YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE | $7,500 |
| AFRCN YOUNG DRMERS EMPMNT PROG INTL | $7,500 |
| CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK | $7,500 |
| CITY OF BURIEN | $7,500 |
| YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES | $7,480 |
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 (FY24–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- WSWASHINGTON STATE YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue -10%
- CUCultures United2× · 2022–2023 · $25k
- PCPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE2× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TAThe Alliance for Pioneer Squareone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -1%
- CICHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +1%
- TATHE ASIA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $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.
Train youth and young adults in the techniques of soccer to improve and enhance the caliber and representation of regional, state, national and international play in the sport of soccer. educe and combat community deterioration, juvenile…
Soccer club that brings premier and select teams under one management. league play and academy training for all players.
Provide organized soccer for the youth in seattle
Northwest United is a premier youth soccer club serving Skagit County and surrounding areas. As one of the top clubs in the Pacific Northwest, we have grown to 41 teams across boys and girls' divisions, offering year-round development for…
King County Play Equity Coalition is a network of organizations dedicated to challenging and changing systems to shift power and center physical activity as a key part of health and youth development.
PacNW offers top-level soccer training and development opportunities for players aged U8 through U19, all of whom are trained using the club's deliberate, integrated, long-term plan for player development.
To provide opportunities for all youths under the age of 19 develop character and play affiliated soccer at a level commensurate with their ability and interest.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
To provide the youth of Portland area communities with the opportunity to experience the joy and thrill of soccer in a player centered environment. The main focus is on FUN and DEVELOPMENT with age appropriate training and coaching where…
To create an environment for youth soccer players that provides the highest level of training, competition, and player development in the state of washington.
North Portland Soccer Clubs mission is to serve our diverse community through building interest in youth soccer and making it more accessible. We provide a safe and fun environment for players to develop skills that help them find…
Develop young people for the challenges and opportunities of life through the game of soccer.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cultures United. 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 19 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 54 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 WASHINGTON STATE YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Alliance for Pioneer Square ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Cultures United ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EarthGen Fka WA Green Schools ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JIMI HENDRIX PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds SODO Business Improvement Area ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE LEARNING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON YOUTH SOCCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Cocreative Culture ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN YOUNG DREAMERS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INTL ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SCORES SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds 90 PLUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Washington State Legends of Soccer ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SCORES ↗
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 · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · School's Out Washington · Good Sports Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Rave 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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