· Public charity
Scholar Fund
To cultivate and establish a positive impact.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 535 grants below total $23,085,186 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $39,151,442 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,066,256 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k86 grants · $644k
- $10k–50k321 grants · $7.7M
- $50k–250k124 grants · $12M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KUEHG Corp | $1,313,081 |
| EL ACADEMIES INC | $622,807 |
| Kre-8-tive Kidz International | $540,355 |
| Right At School LLC | $266,527 |
| College For Kids at Kent | $232,483 |
| YMCA of Greater Seattle | $217,910 |
| Dan Russell Enterprises INC | $215,848 |
| Menachem Mendel Seattle | $206,211 |
| Childrens Academy of Seattle | $199,364 |
| Greenacres Learning Center | $196,901 |
| Health Habits 4 Life | $188,507 |
| Barwaqo Daycare | $171,186 |
| Childrens Academy of Seattle | $166,317 |
| HAPPY EARLY LEARNING | $165,360 |
| Corbin Enterprises INC | $164,318 |
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 (FY23–23, $770k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
To promote each child's development by providing high quality early childhood education.
Wild Lilac Dev Community offers high quality, inclusive, culturally competent, accessible early childhood education,comprehensive family support, and educational opportunities for child development educators, social service professionals…
Providing childcare and early childhood education to approximately 100 children for families of all income levels. Childrens ages range from 2 1/2 to 12 years old.
Hutch Kids Child Care Center's mission is to provide quality, on-site child care services to the employee families of Fed Hutchinson Cancer Center, the University of Washington, their partners, and families from the community.
Sunshine Valley Child Care is a non-denomination Christian Child Care Center that offerschildren 16 months to 5 1/2 years a variety of activities and opportunties to learn and grow.
Kiddie Kampus is a cooperative, play-based preschool located in Alameda for children ages 2 years 9 months to 5 years old. We work together to create a nurturing, engaging preschool environment that prepares our children for kindergarten…
We provide comprehensive child care, education, and child deelopment services withthe framework of quality developmental standards for children between the ages of two months and five years. We do this through supportive a and healthy…
Educators and families work in partnership to provide a joyful environment where children are encouraged to explore and interact with the world around them.
Denton City County Day School provides quality, affordable childcareto families in Denton County. Our mission is to provide qualitypre-kindergarten education and loving care to children ages 2 through 5 years. Our vision is that all DCCDS…
To offer a happy, healthy, and inspired early childhood learning environment that builds a positive sense of self in children and a connectedness to community.
Provide full time child care service for ages six months through five years of age, and after school child care services for children up to twelve years old.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pike Market Child Care & Preschool and the most unlike its peers is Nw Share. 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 45 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 535 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: School's Out Washington · United Way of King County · Workforce Development Council Seattle-Ki · Kidvantage · The Norcliffe Foundation · Windermere Foundation · Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · NW Childrens Foundation · Seattle Foundation · East Seattle 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 Scholar Fund 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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