· Private foundation
Scan Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruun
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $511k
- $250k+1 grant · $519k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $518,983 |
| CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE | $110,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $79,552 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION | $62,615 |
| MUSEUM OF DANISH AMERICA | $59,000 |
| NORDIC NORTHWEST | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| CITY OF TACOMA | $45,000 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR DANISH AMERICA | $25,000 |
| REBILD NATIONAL PARK SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHWEST DANISH ASSOCIATION | $21,000 |
| NEW IMPACT | $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 (FY18–18, $20k) 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.
34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 16 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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 FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +46%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $938k · revenue +39%
- CFCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE4× · 2019–2024 · $360k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- UCUW COLLEGE OF BUILT ENVIRONMENTone grant, 2022 · $330k
- USUW SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - ANESTHEOLOGYone grant, 2022 · $155k
- UDUW DEPARTMENT OF ANESTHESIOLOGYone grant, 2020 · $155k
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 museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…
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.
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.
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.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vashon Repertory Theatre. 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 43 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 85 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Nordic Museum ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR DANISH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds POMEGRANATE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORDIC NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds REBILD NATIONAL PARK SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The American-Scandinavian Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST DANISH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Roots Housing Foundation ↗
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Artsfund · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Treeline Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr
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 Scan Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruun 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.
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 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.
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