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· Public charity
SEATTLE MILK FUND INC
Connecting families to educational opportunities that build financial stability and create generational change.
$2.2M
Granted FY2023
9
Grants
1
Communities
$772k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Education$632kCrime & Legal$592kHuman Services$39kHousing & Shelter$26kArts & Culture$16kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$803k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2023
dissolutionadvancechildrenequityearly learningimmigrantsemployment
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $360k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$113,186
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION$771,720
- ATLANTIC STREET CENTER$591,652
- PARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT$257,240
- NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS$246,951
- CASA LATINA$113,186
- AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$25,724
- MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER$18,521
- LOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV$16,463
- PIKE MARKET CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOL$16,463
02The need
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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 (FY18–23, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
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Preschool Partners
Provide an inclusive and diverse learning environment that prepares preschool children for success
Education
2
Interlake Child Care and Learning Center
Interlake Child Care & Learning Center creates an inclusive and vibrant community with families and young children. Interlake's loving environment and anti-bias, culturally relevant curriculum inspires children to grow into competent,…
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3
Institute for Native Pacific Education
Early childhood education, educational equity and family economic capacity building.
Education
4
Spruce Street School
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
Education
5
Nuevo Amanecer Latino Children's
Nuevo Amanecer Latino (Nuevo) Children's Services provides our children and families with love, education and family based concurrent planning services.
Human Services
6
Peninsula Family Connections
Peninsula Family Connections partners with families who are expecting or have children from birth through age five to nurture resilience and uplift families as they build their own success by providing high-quality services in early…
Health
7
Palo Alto Community Child Care
To provide quality, professional and accessible childhood care and education.
Human Services
8
Think Small
To advance quality care and education of children in their crucial early years.
Human Services
9
Linda Vista Children's Center
Our goal is to help in the development of children who are secure, confident, and competent. We provide an environment that is emotionally warm and nurturing, physically safe, and cognitively challenging. It is our desire to work as a team…
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10
Latino Community Fund of
Improve the well-being of the Latinos in Washington State
Human Services
11
Educare Dc
To eliminate the opportunity gap with high-quality early learning for children prenatal to age 5.
Human Services
12
The Literacy Lab
The literacy lab provides evidence-based, culturally responsive literacy instruction.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is BrightSpark Early Learning Services and the most unlike its peers is United Indians of All Tribes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$803,183Education$632,377Crime & Legal$591,652Human Services$38,521Housing & Shelter$25,724Arts & Culture$16,463Recreation & Sports$10,000
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 UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE EDUCATION ACCESS ↗
- Who funds PARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds CASA LATINA ↗
- Who funds AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PIKE MARKET CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV ↗
- Who funds TINY TREES ↗
- Who funds TINY TREES VIA SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Seattle FoundationWA26.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Laird Norton Family Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Inatai Foundation · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Raikes 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 organisation SEATTLE MILK FUND 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SEATTLE EDUCATION ACCESS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~20 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 043602577 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SEATTLE EDUCATION ACCESS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Seattle Milk Fund Inc?
Find your warmest path to Seattle Milk Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines