· Public charity
Seattle Garden Club Inc
To stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening by conducting open meetings, holding conferences, sending out correspondence and producing publications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $62,262 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $72,612 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,350 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mini Mart City Park | $20,000 |
| The Bloedel Reserve | $15,000 |
| WA Park Arboretum Foundation | $10,000 |
| Seattle Childrens PlayGarden | $10,000 |
| Univ of WA Botanic Gardens | $7,262 |
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 (FY20–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
ARBORETUM FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +59%- SPSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +49%
- TATILTH ALLIANCE2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONTone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -48%
- PHPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIESone grant, 2024 · $19k · revenue 0%
ISLANDWOODgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +121%
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.
Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
The Fremont Arts Council (FAC) is a Seattle-based community arts organization founded in 1979. The FAC cultivates creativity, celebration, and belonging by engaging people of all backgrounds as active participants in the arts. We produce…
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
Environmental education with a marine/estuary focus to inspire people of all ages to protect Puget Sound. In 2025. 10,031 K-12 students and 79,363 adults took part in an environmental education opportunity focused on marine and estuary…
Leach botanical garden offers immersive, restorative, and educational experiences in a unique landscape of native plants and horticultural collections for the purpose of building community, celebrating nature, and inspiring environmental…
Birds connect seattle advocates and organizes for cities where people and birds thrive.
To acquire and build a botanical garden
We preserve and enhance Dunn Gardens as a public resource, celebrating the original 1915 Olmsted design and showcasing the evolution of garden design in the Pacific Northwest.
To grow community stewardship of the urban forest across greater tacoma through planting, education, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Plantamnesty. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
- Who funds ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINI MART CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds TILTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE BLOEDEL RESERVE ↗
- Who funds ISLANDWOOD ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds PLANTAMNESTY ↗
- Who funds CORPS OF ENGINEERS NATURAL RESOURCES EDUCATION F ↗
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 · Wyman Youth Trust · Bainbridge Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Garden Club Inc 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.