· Private foundation
Raven Trust Fund
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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $131k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OXBOW CENTER | $3,570,000 |
| WOODLAND PARK ZOO | $25,000 |
| DISCOVERY INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION | $11,227 |
| PATH FOR GLOBAL HEALTH | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $10,000 |
| STEWARDSHIP PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| FARESTART | $10,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE TIMES INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FUND | $10,000 |
| ARTSFUND (CCA) | $10,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND PNW | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 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, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M 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
- OCOXBOW CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT7× · 2017–2023 · $13M · revenue +217% · 74% of their budget
- TSTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $525k · revenue +156%
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $128k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF ODESSA BROWN CHILDREN'S CLINICone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CFCENTER FOR DISEASE DYNAMICS ECONOMICS & POLICY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -77%
- RPRAINIER PREPgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +45%
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.…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Oxbow Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 102 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 OXBOW CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Stewardship Partners ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds ALPHA SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORTERRA NW ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ISLANDWOOD ↗
- Who funds THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PATH WITH ART ↗
- Who funds LONG LIVE THE KINGS ↗
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 · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gates Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · United Way of King County · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Artsfund · Medina 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 Raven Trust Fund 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.
- Center for Disease Dynamics Economics & Policy Inc — 16% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.
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