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Russ and Tricia Stromberg Family Foundation at a glance

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Russ and Tricia Stromberg Family Foundation

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.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0173% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$105kEmployment$85kArts & Culture$35kHuman Services$18kPhilanthropy$17kCivil Rights$16kScience & Tech$12kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$67k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL TALENT IDAHO OFFICE OF REFUG$24,543
GOODWILL$20,000
SPECTRUM DANCE THEATRE$10,000
NATIONAL FLIGHT ACADEMY$3,000
Individual grant recipient$600
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MCCALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%GLOBAL TALENT IDAHO OFFICE OF REFUG: $25k → 8%TUNNELS TO TOWERS: $100k → 11%LAW ENFORCEMENT RELIEF FUND: $100 → 9%NATIONAL FLIGHT ACADEMY: $6k → 16%SPRINGHILL COLLEGE: $3k → 19%SHEPHERDS HOME: $2k → 20%SPECTRUM DANCE THEATRE: $15k → 9%GOODWILL: $40k → 9%KENMORE CREW LEASING: $16k → 12%ROTARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%BLINK NOW: $3k → 4%MCSF: $25k → 9%SHEPARD'S HOME: $3k → 11%AGENCY FOR NEW AMERICANS: $9k → 8%NATIONAL FLIGHT ACADEMY: $3k → 16%SPECTRUM DANCE THEATRE: $10k → 9%GOODWILL: $20k → 9%ROTARY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%BLINK NOW: $3k → 4%MCSF: $7k → 9%SHEPARD'S HOME: $1k → 11%AGENCY FOR NEW AMERICANS: $7k → 8%NATIONAL FLIGHT ACADEMY: $3k → 16%SPECTRUM DANCE THEATER: $10k → 9%TABLE ROCK RESIDENCES: $2k → 8%KINDERING CENTER: $1k → 9%BOISE NICE: $600 → 8%RAINIER FLIGHT SERVICE: $600 → 9%BOISE NICE: $500 → 8%BOOTS TO SHOES: $20k → 9%BOISE NICE: $500 → 8%BOOTS TO SHOES: $10k → 9%BOISE NICE: $500 → 8%ATTAIN HOUSING: $3k → 9%KIRKLAND SMALL BUSINESS RELIEF FUND: $1k → 9%EVERYONE FOR VETERANS: $5k → 9%EVERYONE FOR VETERANS: $5k → 9%EVERYONE FOR VETERANS: $3k → 9%EVERYONE FOR VETERANS: $3k → 9%EVERYONE FOR VETERANS: $2k → 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

WA
ID
IL
NY
NJ
VA
MD
TN
AL
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$213k · 10 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +327% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$213k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+327%
+12%

Still filing today

20%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • G
    GOODWILL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k
  • SD
    Spectrum Dance Theater
    3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue -20%
  • M
    MCSF
    2× · 2018–2021 · $32k

Funded once

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +83%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
  • SH
    SPRING HILL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +8%
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
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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2
SupportWorks Housing

We end homelessness by providing permanent housing and supportive services.

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3
South Whidbey Homeless Coalition

We provide community members facing homlessness with chelter, resurces, and advoccy to create a strong and thriving widbey island.

Housing & Shelter
4
Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services

Reclaim is a community resource providing pathways to stability, opportunity & connection.

Housing & Shelter
5
Heroes Hope Inc

At Heroes Hope, we provide hope and restoration to veterans in crisis offering immediate housing, peer mentorship, and life-changing resources without red tape or delay.

Public Benefit
6
Spring Hill Foundation
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7
Friendship Place

Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…

Housing & Shelter
8
Habitat for Humanity - Spokane

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity-Spokane adheres to a…

Housing & Shelter
9
Sexual Violence Law Center

Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that protects the safety, privacy, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and trauma-informed practices rooted in race and…

Human Services
10
The Seattle Chapter American Institute of Archite

We champion the central role of architects in creating and sustaining a better built environment.

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11
Community Roots Housing Foundation

Community Roots Housing Foundation is a 501(c)(3) raising funds to support Community Roots Housing, a Seattle-area public development authority that creates inclusive housing and fosters thriving, just communities. (See Schedule O for…

Philanthropy
12
Seattle Center Foundation

The Seattle Center Foundation supports the vision and purpose of Seattle Center by advocating for public support and private dollars for major capital and program improvements.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Shepherds Home Inc. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOODWILL: $60,000 · OtherGOODWILLMCSF: $32,200 · OtherMCSFIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGLOBAL TALENT IDAHO OFFICE OF REFUG: $24,543 · OtherGLOBAL TALENT IDAHO OFFICE OF REFUGIndividual grant recipient: $16,296 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAGENCY FOR NEW AMERICANS: $16,240 · OtherAGENCY FOR NEW AMERICANSNATIONAL FLIGHT ACADEMY: $12,000 · OtherNATIONAL FLIGHT ACADEMY+10 more: $19,466 · Other+10 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS …+2 more: $5,000 · EducationSpectrum Dance Theater: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSpectrum D…EVERYONE FOR VETERANS: $16,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 · International
Other$210,745Education$105,000Arts & Culture$35,000Philanthropy$16,500International$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpectrum Dance Theater: $35,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEVERYONE FOR VETERANS: $16,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSPRING HILL COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATTAIN HOUSING: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $1,000 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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Spectrum Dance Theater ↗
  • Who funds EVERYONE FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds SPRING HILL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ATTAIN HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Shepherds Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds MCCALL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Russ and Tricia Stromberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russ and Tricia Stromberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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