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Seattle International Foundation

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society.

$2.4M
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
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 FY20172022.

International$599kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kPhilanthropy$24kCrime & Legal$15kFood & Nutrition$15k
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $30,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,441,870 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,411,870 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.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BANCO DE ALIMENTOS DE PUERTO RICO$15,000
CORPORACION LA FONDITA DE JESUS$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY: $13k → 10%THE FOUNDATION CENTER: $24k → 17%INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED: $5k → 14%GLOBAL WASHINGTON: $175k → 9%GLOBAL WASHINGTON: $165k → 9%GLOBAL WASHINGTON: $150k → 9%SEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 9%GLOBAL WASHINGTON: $100k → 9%NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $10k → 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.

Grants abroad, by region — $1.9M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$1.3M · 67% · 51 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN THIS REGION.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$385k · 20% · 27 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN THIS REGION.

South America$156k · 8% · 10 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN THIS REGION.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$101k · 5% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN THIS REGION.

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your 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
Council of the Americas Inc

Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…

2
Sentinel Research

We help the public by foreseeing and reacting to globally impactful and existential catastrophes. We forecast near-term risks, detect black swans earlier, and deploy our emergency response team to take mitigating action.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Seattle International Foundation

Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…

Philanthropy
4
Migration Policy Institute

The nonpartisan migration policy institute seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through authoritative research and analysis, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex…

Civil Rights
5
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
6
Seattle Pacific University

Seattle pacific university is a christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

Education
7
Portulans Institute

To develop cross-community knowledge and dialogue on how people, technology and innovation contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth; to inform policy-makers, by producing independent, rigorous metrics and data-based research; to…

Arts & Culture
8
Open Government Partnership Secretariat

To secure concrete commitments from governments to their citizenry to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption and harness new technologies to strengthen citizen centered governance.

International
9
National Immigration Forum

The forum advocates for the value of immigrants and immigration to the nation. from a diversity of perspectives, the forum uses communication, advocacy and policy to create a vision, concensus and strategy to lead to a better, more…

10
International Budget Partnership

Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…

International
11
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
12
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanics in Philanthropy and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GLOBAL WASHINGTON — $590,000 · InternationalGLOBAL WASHINGTONCORPORACION LA FONDITA DE JESUS — $15,000 · OtherCORPORACIO…BANCO DE ALIMENTOS DE PUERTO RICO — $15,000 · OtherBANCO DE A…HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY — $13,000 · OtherHISPANICS …NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $10,000 · OtherNORTHWEST …SEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $8,841 · OtherSEATTLE UN…CANDID — $24,000 · PhilanthropyINSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
International$590,000Other$61,841Philanthropy$24,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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 budgetGLOBAL WASHINGTON — $590,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetCANDID — $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORACION LA FONDITA DE JESUS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY — $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $8,841 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Seattle International 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 8 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.9M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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