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Riley W and Nancy a Pleas Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$81kHealth$44kHuman Services$42kPhilanthropy$22kEmployment$22kYouth Development$21kReligion$18kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$600
Median grant
14
States reached
$608k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CEN$11,125
ST PETER CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
COMMON THREADS PROJECT$4,290
SEATTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$2,500
ASSUMPTION-ST BRIDGET SCHOOL$2,500
SALVATION ARMY KING COUNTY$2,000
WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER$1,500
BOYERS CHILDRENS CLINIC$1,500
FARE START$1,100
VILLA ACADEMY$1,000
EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL$1,000
ST JOSEPH SCHOOL$1,000
ST MARYS COLLEGE$1,000
HOUSE OF MERCY$1,000
FOOD LIFELINE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOUSE OF MERCY: $3k → 14%BECKYS PLACE HAVEN OF HOPE: $500 → 10%House of Mercy: $2k → 14%Cascadia Art Museum: $500 → 9%Beckys Place Haven of Hope: $500 → 10%House of Mercy: $1k → 14%Cascadia Art Museum: $500 → 9%BECKYS PLACE HAVEN OF HOPE: $500 → 10%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $500 → 9%Beckys Place Haven of Hope: $500 → 10%BECKYS PLACE HAVEN OF HOPE: $500 → 10%BECKYS PLACE HAVEN OF HOPE: $500 → 10%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $500 → 9%SOULUMINATION: $500 → 9%SOULUMINATION: $500 → 9%Soulumination: $500 → 9%Wellspring Family Services: $500 → 9%Soulumination: $500 → 9%YWCA of Seattle King Snohomish: $250 → 9%SOULUMINATION: $500 → 9%YWCA of Seattle King Snohomish: $250 → 9%SOULUMINATION: $500 → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $360 → 9%Safe Crossing Foundation: $112 → 9%Healing the Culture: $600 → 9%St Vincent de Paul: $500 → 9%St Vincent de Paul: $500 → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $500 → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $500 → 9%YMCA of Greater Seattle: $250 → 9%Chief Seattle Club: $200 → 9%Chief Seattle Club: $200 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$240k · 57 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
43

Total granted

$240k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+33%

Still filing today

53%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TI
    TEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +17%
  • BC
    Boyer Children's Clinic
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +50%
  • MM
    MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • MK
    Mauna Kea Team Member Council Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • KH
    KOHALA HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • UF
    UW FOSTERS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University Cooperative School

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.

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2
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
3
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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4
Seattle Pacific University

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.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education
7
University of Portland

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…

Education
8
The George Washington University

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…

Education
9
Puget Sound Community School

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,…

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10
The Association of Chrmc and University Physicians

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…

Health
11
Nexus Youth and Families

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…

Human Services
12
Humanities Washington

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County; 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.
04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/66
Grantees still filing
40/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $14,125 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERSALVATION ARMY: $9,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY KING COUNTY: $8,000 · OtherAmara Parenting and Adoption: $7,978 · OtherST PETER CATHOLIC CHURCH: $7,000 · OtherSEATTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $7,000 · OtherMauna Kea Team Member Council Fund: $7,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSIN: $7,000 · OtherODEA HIGH SCHOOL: $7,000 · OtherCOMMON THREADS PROJECT: $7,290 · OtherFOOD LIFELINE: $6,400 · OtherWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $6,500 · Other+67 more: $93,344 · Other+67 moreVILLA ACADEMY: $5,700 · EducationVILLA ACA…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $5,000 · EducationUNITED NE…RAINIER SCHOLARS: $4,500 · EducationRAINIER S…SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationSEATTLE N…BERTSCHI SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationBERTSCHI …RECLAIM: $1,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $1,000 · EducationEPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $1,000 · Education+4 more: $1,750 · Education+4 moreTEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE: $17,900 · Youth DevelopmentTEENS IN …MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $8,098 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MAT…+1 more: $104 · Youth DevelopmentFARESTART: $21,573 · EmploymentHOUSE OF MERCY INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesBECKYS PLACE HAVEN OF HOPE CORPORATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesSOULUMINATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $2,000 · Human ServicesCASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $2,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $1,360 · Human Services+5 more: $1,862 · Human ServicesBoyer Children's Clinic: $11,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 · HealthHands Of Hope Tucson: $700 · HealthBlack Mamas Matter Alliance Inc: $575 · Health+4 more: $1,050 · HealthJUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $2,850 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$187,637Education$26,450Youth Development$26,102Employment$21,573Human Services$18,722Health$15,325Philanthropy$13,850

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFARESTART: $21,573 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE: $17,900 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $14,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoyer Children's Clinic: $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $8,098 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMON THREADS PROJECT: $7,290 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $6,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA ACADEMY: $5,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBECKYS PLACE HAVEN OF HOPE CORPORATION: $3,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSOULUMINATION: $3,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $2,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL YOU NEED IS LOVE: $2,552 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY: $2,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBERTSCHI SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMalaria Partners International: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $1,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOTUS LTD: $1,050 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECLAIM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORION SKY HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSEATTLE UNITED FC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA of San Mateo County: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHands Of Hope Tucson: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING THE CULTURE: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSumner Community Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Accessible Medical Services PS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEAR CREEK SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Garneau Nicon Family …Sos FoundationWyman Youth TrustMoccasin Lake Foundat…United Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Apex FoundationRaikes FoundationNorberg Family Founda…Gorder Family Foundat…
Seattle FoundationWA47.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Riley W and Nancy a Pleas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Riley W and Nancy a Pleas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
19report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Riley W and Nancy a Pleas Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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