· Private foundation
Runstad Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k14 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE | $5,000 |
| HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YWCA | $5,000 |
| CHILDHAVEN | $5,000 |
| GEORGE POCOCK ROWING FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| STEWARDSHIP PARTNERS | $2,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - HAWAII CHAPTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $307k · revenue +46%
- TSTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES2× · 2017–2018 · $43k · revenue +131%
- GPGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +38%
Funded once
YEAR UP INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +1%- NHNew Hope Housing Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +190%
- SLSHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
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.
The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
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.
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…
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…
Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.
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.…
Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences and the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. 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 42 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 — 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.
29 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. 29 of the 46 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 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds George Pocock Rowing Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Education ↗
- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds National Nordic Museum ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Stewardship Partners ↗
- Who funds HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
- Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Seattle Works ↗
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 · Wyman Youth Trust · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · United Way of King County · Baird Foundation Inc · 47th Avenue Foundation · Islands Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Apex Foundation · Raikes 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 Runstad 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.
- Year Up Inc — 0% 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.