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Seattle Milk Fund Inc

Connecting families to educational opportunities that build financial stability and create generational change.

$2.2M
Granted FY2023
9
Itemized grants FY2023
9
Organizations funded FY2023
89%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$2.1M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$113,186
Largest grant, FY2023
$771,720
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 89% of the organizations Seattle Milk Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’23
EducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20239$2.1M89%
FY20201$15k100%
FY20192$25k50%
FY20182$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Philanthropy$772kHuman Services$647kEducation$417kEmployment$257kHousing & Shelter$26k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Seattle Milk Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation$771,72016%
Atlantic Street Center$591,65219%
Northwest Education Access$261,95129%
Partner in Employment$257,24017%
Casa Latina$113,18614%
Africatown Community Land Trust$25,72410%
Brightspark Early Learning Services$20,00020%
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center$18,52110%
Pike Market Child Care & Preschool$16,46311%
Look Listen and Learn Tv$16,4631n/a
Tiny Trees Preschool$15,00011%
Seattle Parks Foundation$10,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seattle Milk Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Indians of All Tribes Foundation: $771,720 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetAtlantic Street Center: $591,652 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetNorthwest Education Access: $261,951 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetPartner in Employment: $257,240 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCasa Latina: $113,186 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAfricatown Community Land Trust: $25,724 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBrightspark Early Learning Services: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMulticultural Child and Family Hope Center: $18,521 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPike Market Child Care & Preschool: $16,463 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTiny Trees Preschool: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSeattle Parks Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationWA26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Laird Norton Family Foundation · Inatai Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Grousemont Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Seattle Milk Fund Inc

How much does Seattle Milk Fund Inc give?
Seattle Milk Fund Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $2,057,920, out of $2,197,012 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Seattle Milk Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Human Services (31%), Education (20%).
Who are Seattle Milk Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: United Indians of All Tribes Foundation ($772k), Atlantic Street Center ($592k), Northwest Education Access ($262k).
Does Seattle Milk Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Seattle Milk Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, United Way of King County, Medina Foundation.
Where is Seattle Milk Fund Inc based?
Seattle Milk Fund Inc is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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