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Seattle Foundation

SEATTLE FOUNDATION's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.

$211M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5,379
Grants FY2024still arriving
48
States reached
$7.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$176MEducation$159MHealth$129MEnvironment$92MHuman Services$92MArts & Culture$89MHousing & Shelter$49MCommunity Improvement$44MOther$0
02FY2024 · 5379 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5,379 grants below total $177,889,348 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $210,661,952 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,772,604 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

  • Under $10k2987 grants · $8.3M
  • $10k–50k1660 grants · $31M
  • $50k–250k619 grants · $53M
  • $250k+113 grants · $85M
$6,000
Median grant
48
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHURCH$7,000,000
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY$6,728,848
GREATER HORIZONS$6,059,329
WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER$3,500,000
DAFGIVING360$3,111,418
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHURCH$3,000,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE$2,600,000
REI COOPERATIVE ACTION FUND$1,400,000
THE REDFORD CENTER$1,250,000
REI COOPERATIVE ACTION FUND$1,209,636
DENVER FILM SOCIETY$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$1,000,000
CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION$1,000,000
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC$1,000,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$1,000,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $34.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $1.3M → 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $1.3M → 10%CLATSKANIE SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $250k → 11%WASHINGTON COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $360k → 17%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $1.1M → 10%NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $300k → 10%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL OF WHATCOM COUNTY: $260k → 12%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY: $254k → 9%LOPEZ ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $375k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $350k → 10%WASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK: $250k → 17%NEW AMERICANS ALLIANCE FOR POLICY AND RESEARCH: $400k → 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $436k → 10%BYRD BARR PLACE: $487k → 9%BRAVER ANGELS: $1.0M → 17%ZERO TO THREE: $4.5M → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $250k → 14%BYRD BARR PLACE: $250k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $350k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $300k → 9%COALITION OF IMMIGRANTS REFUGEES AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $280k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $255k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $251k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $250k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $250k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $250k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $250k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $769k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $461k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $322k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $288k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $250k → 9%EVERGREEN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $750k → 9%EVERGREEN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $455k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $250k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $1.5M → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $503k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $300k → 9%WASHINGTON CENSUS ALLIANCE: $274k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $250k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $250k → 9%HORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $400k → 9%DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $250k → 9%THE SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $260k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $246k → 9%THE IMAGINE INSTITUTE: $250k → 9%COMMUNITY HEALTH BOARD COALITION: $250k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Seattle Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Seattle Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$890M · 1631 repeat orgs$66M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

1631 repeat relationships — 1007 still active in FY2024, 624 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1631
186

Total granted

$890M
$41M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+18%

Still filing today

90%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $28M · revenue +46%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue ×12 · 30% of their budget
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • ZT
    ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $4.5M · revenue +28%
  • FII - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $4.3M · revenue -89%
  • C
    CHURCHOME
    one grant, 2018 · $3.1M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment
2
Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties

To build long-lasting conflict solutions between to people and groups across Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.

Crime & Legal
3
Washington Bikes

The organization advocates for the rights of people who ride bikes and holds officials accountable working with them to shape policies.

Recreation & Sports
4
Washington Area Community Investment

To increase equity and economic opportunity by investing knowledge, social, and financial capital in low- and moderate-income washington area entrepreneurs.

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5
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry.

Community Improvement
6
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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7
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
8
The Urbanist

Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.

Community Improvement
9
Southwest Washington Equity Coalition

The Southwest Washington Equity Coalition advances racial equity through dismantling structural white supremacy, creating transformational action, and advocating for our community. We remain rooted in Re-Indigenization, Black Liberation,…

Civil Rights
10
Cascade Pacific Rc&D Area

To enhance communities through social, economic, educational, and environmental recovery improvements

Community Improvement
11
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
12
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Lifescape. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…School District FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsDance Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Social ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Jewish Community Organizati…Developmental Disabilities …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Food PantriesYmca Youth DevelopmentEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Mentoring ProgramsChristian Youth CampsSchool Parent OrganizationsElementary Literacy TutoringAnimal Rescue and ShelterPublic Library OperationsDomestic Violence ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Affordable Housing Construc…Lgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Development CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Addiction Recovery ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsSenior Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Arts CentersUnited Way AffiliatesLocal History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr15%26%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%94/4,016
the rest of the field
13%
4,678/34,952

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.

05the grantee network

1832 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1832 of the 2,000 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.

181
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
559
Early backer (in before they grew)
1793/1832
Grantees still filing
1325/1832
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $60,299,623 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNT…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $15,720,368 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE…Greater Horizons — $6,348,302 · Philanthropy+22 more — $60,216,915 · Philanthropy+22 moreKING COUNTY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY DIVISION — $10,632,812 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE — $10,126,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHURCH — $10,000,000 · Other+81 more — $206,392,253 · Other+81 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $28,112,465 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…The Education Trust Inc — $3,211,000 · EducationSkagit Valley College Foundation — $3,117,567 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARS — $2,583,613 · EducationScholar Fund — $2,524,442 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,483,690 · Education+16 more — $26,943,081 · Education+16 moreSIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL — $7,053,203 · HealthSIGN FRAC…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $6,158,523 · HealthFred Hutc…COMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE — $5,748,235 · HealthCOMPREHEN…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $5,423,200 · HealthCROHN'S &…GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS — $4,331,200 · HealthGLOBAL PA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $3,739,105 · HealthPLANNED P…Frontier Behavioral Health — $3,556,474 · HealthFrontier …COLUMBIA RIVER MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES — $2,931,548 · HealthCOLUMBIA …BUILDING CHANGES — $2,800,548 · HealthOur Lady of Lourdes Hospital at Pasco — $2,328,633 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,957,296 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,902,500 · Health+4 more — $5,738,179 · Health+4 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $18,630,314 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY …FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT — $7,192,300 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS O…RVC SEATTLE — $6,893,952 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATT…BROWN UNIVERSITY — $4,391,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNI…TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION — $2,275,625 · Community ImprovementWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $2,166,044 · Community Improvement+8 more — $11,458,479 · Community Improvement+8 moreLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $5,715,035 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $5,109,819 · Human ServicesZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES — $4,525,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL — $4,285,000 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $3,238,598 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR PLACE — $2,620,250 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $2,373,434 · Human ServicesOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — $2,247,123 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,923,579 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE — $1,917,937 · Human ServicesHOPELINK — $1,827,440 · Human ServicesSOMALI HEALTH BOARD — $1,794,750 · Human ServicesEVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,581,342 · Human Services+6 more — $8,179,600 · Human ServicesTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $7,255,895 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND — $7,043,500 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $3,192,450 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $2,583,000 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INC — $2,571,275 · EnvironmentFORTERRA NW — $2,547,650 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION NW — $2,499,536 · EnvironmentALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE — $2,272,460 · EnvironmentFront and Centered — $1,736,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,679,335 · EnvironmentSPLASH INTERNATIONAL — $1,620,209 · EnvironmentAMERICAN LANDS PROJECT — $1,591,000 · Environment+7 more — $9,208,340 · Environment
Philanthropy$142,585,208Other$237,151,065Education$71,475,858Health$53,668,644Community Improvement$53,007,714Human Services$47,338,907Environment$45,800,650

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $60,299,623 over 8y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $28,112,465 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $18,630,314 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $15,720,368 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE — $10,126,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $7,255,895 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT — $7,192,300 over 8y, 28% of budgetSIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL — $7,053,203 over 8y, 27% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $7,043,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetRVC SEATTLE — $6,893,952 over 8y, 13% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $6,693,543 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Horizons — $6,348,302 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $6,158,523 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $6,091,655 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA — $6,087,756 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $5,789,627 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE — $5,748,235 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $5,715,035 over 8y, 28% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $5,459,014 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $5,423,200 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetHUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES — $5,123,253 over 2y, 53% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $5,109,819 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $4,748,674 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $4,671,862 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund — $4,572,489 over 8y, 45% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES — $4,525,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $4,521,199 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $4,493,454 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $4,391,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER — $4,367,000 over 8y, 49% of budgetGLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS — $4,331,200 over 8y, 21% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $4,305,711 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $4,285,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,146,296 over 8y, 28% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $4,079,503 over 5y, 19% of budgetKITSAP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,037,521 over 8y, 48% of budgetREI COOPERATIVE ACTION FUND — $4,031,485 over 2y, 28% of budgetInnovia Foundation — $3,939,895 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $3,920,653 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINVESTED — $3,906,973 over 7y, 31% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $3,739,105 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SKAGIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,727,404 over 8y, 56% of budgetFrontier Behavioral Health — $3,556,474 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $3,274,961 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $3,238,598 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc — $3,211,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $3,192,450 over 8y, 12% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $3,155,360 over 8y, 0.2% of budget
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 UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
  • Who funds SIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Greater Horizons ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds COMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds Latino Community Fund of Washington State ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
  • Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Na'ah Illahee Fund ↗
  • Who funds ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗

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.

Medina FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Philanthropy NorthwestMoccasin Lake Foundat…Grousemont FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Satterberg Founda…School's Out Washingt…Credit Unions in the …Lucky Seven FoundationStolte Family Foundat…Wyman Youth Trust
Medina FoundationWA137.4× affinity220 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · School's Out Washington · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Lucky Seven Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust

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 Seattle 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
62report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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