· Private foundation
Riley W and Nancy a Pleas Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CEN | $11,125 |
| ST PETER CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| COMMON THREADS PROJECT | $4,290 |
| ASSUMPTION-ST BRIDGET SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SEATTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY KING COUNTY | $2,000 |
| BOYERS CHILDRENS CLINIC | $1,500 |
| WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER | $1,500 |
| FARE START | $1,100 |
| ST MARYS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HOUSE OF MERCY | $1,000 |
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ST MATTHEW SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
57 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TITEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +17%
- BCBoyer Children's Clinic6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +50%
- MMMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC3× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- MKMauna Kea Team Member Council Fundone grant, 2020 · $7k
- KHKOHALA HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATIone grant, 2022 · $5k
- UFUW FOSTERS SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
Seattle pacific university is a christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…
Children's university medical group (cumg) is the non-profit pediatric group practice established to support the academic, research and clinical missions of its corporate members, university of washington school of medicine (uwsom) and…
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…
Humanities washington (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. we envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Cascadia Art Museum. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 119 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 FARESTART ↗
- Who funds TEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boyer Children's Clinic ↗
- Who funds JUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON THREADS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds VILLA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds BECKYS PLACE HAVEN OF HOPE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOULUMINATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
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 · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Sos Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Apex Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Norberg Family Foundation · Gorder Family 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 Riley W and Nancy a Pleas Family 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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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