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Russell Wilson Foundation
The RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION dba why not you foundation was established to empower youth to lead with a why not you attitude by investing in youth education and health programs in communities with the greatest need.
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.
The 8 grants below total $591,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $608,217 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,217 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $486k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WESTERN PA | $211,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN NATIONAL | $75,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $45,000 |
| THE V FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CANCER BRIDGES | $25,000 |
| PITTSBURGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +190% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 8 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $591k 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
- CPCascade Public Schools Why Not You Academy4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +207% · 28% of their budget
- SCSeattle Children's Foundation3× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +190%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +76%
Funded once
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +1%- CPCommunity Partnership for Child Developmentone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +3%
- KIKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRYone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Seattle children's guild association advocates for seattle children's hospital through volunteer, philanthropic and community endeavors to ensure hope, excellent care and advanced cures for children.
Seattle children's healthcare system (schs) is engaged in activities relating to the provision of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents, delivering and improving the delivery and the quality of those services through…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
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.
Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…
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…
We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc. 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 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 34 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 Cascade Public Schools Why Not You Academy ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Educating Children of Color Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON BIKES INC ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds King County Library System Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds CANCER BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rwanda Girls Initiative ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Colorado Gives Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Pikes Peak Community 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 Russell Wilson 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.
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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