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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
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$772k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$772kHuman Services$647kEducation$417kEmployment$257kHousing & Shelter$26k
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $2,057,920 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,197,012 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $139,092 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 · 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
RecipientAmount
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
PIKE MARKET CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOL$16,463
LOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV$16,463
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $39k) 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.

area typical 7%MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $19k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $10k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $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.

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.

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
Wild Lilac Child Development Community

Wild Lilac Dev Community offers high quality, inclusive, culturally competent, accessible early childhood education,comprehensive family support, and educational opportunities for child development educators, social service professionals…

Education
2
Seattle Institute for Early Childhood Development

Hilltop is transforming early childhood education through play, collaboration, and reflection: in our classrooms with children, partnerships with families, and professional development with educators.

Education
3
Seattle Amistad School

At Seattle Amistad School, we foster community integrity through rigorous bilingual and bicultural education, developing our students' academic strengths and cultural sensibilities, while nurturing compassionate and engaged citizens.

Education
4
Evergreen Childrens Association Dba Kids Co

Our mission is to provide and advocate for affordable quality childcare that enriches and nurtures all children, supporting their success in school and in life.

Human Services
5
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
6
Bothell Family Cooperative Preschool

Bothell Family Cooperative Preschool is a group of 90 families who have children from 0-5 years old who are dedicated to nurturing the development of health families in a supportive community. Members are involved at every level to create…

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7
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
8
Puyallup Playcare Center

Providing childcare and early childhood education to approximately 100 children for families of all income levels. Childrens ages range from 2 1/2 to 12 years old.

Human Services
9
Skagit Preschool and Resource Center

Programs for children with special needs from birth to six. sparc offers opportunities for family education, participation and support so that familiies may become more knowledgeable about their childs needs and goals are are better able…

Education
10
Enriching Partnerships for Early Learning

Enriching Partnerships for Early Learning engages families, organizations, the early childhood workforce, and healthcare providers dedicated to creating a collaborative community wide system of support for young children to succeed in…

Education
11
Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture

To improve the quality of life for native hawaiians through community partnerships that provide educational opportunities and promote self-sufficiency.

Education
12
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pike Market Child Care & Preschool 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.

04the grantee network

12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION — $771,720 · OtherUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION+2 more — $31,463 · OtherNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS — $261,951 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESSPARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT — $257,240 · EducationPARTNER IN EMPLOYMENTCASA LATINA — $113,186 · EducationCASA LATINAAtlantic Street Center — $591,652 · Crime & LegalAtlantic Street CenterBrightspark Early Learning Services — $20,000 · Human ServicesMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER — $18,521 · Human ServicesAFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $25,724 · Housing & ShelterLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV — $16,463 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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.

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 FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Medina FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Satterberg Founda…Laird Norton Family F…Inatai FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Sheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Stolte Family Foundat…Grousemont Foundation
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

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 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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