· Private foundation
Seattle Peoples Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RVC SEATTLE | $5,000 |
| DEAF SPOTLIGHT | $5,000 |
| AMIGOS DE SEATTLE | $5,000 |
| LAO SENIOR OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| WOMEN UNITED | $4,000 |
| RADIO ENTHUSIASTS OF PUGET SOUND | $4,000 |
| RHAPSODY PROJECT | $4,000 |
| RVC SEATTLE | $4,000 |
| YEHAW INDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE | $4,000 |
| RVC SEATTLE | $4,000 |
| MALAWI SEATTLE ASSOC | $3,000 |
| DEAF SPOTLIGHT | $3,000 |
| HEARTBEAT FAMILY SUPPORT SVCS | $3,000 |
| SHUNPIKE | $1,000 |
| TIBETAN ASSOCIATION OF WA | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $55k) 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 +70% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
RVC SEATTLE6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +84%- DSDEAF SPOTLIGHT6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +161%
- ADAMIGOS DE SEATTLE3× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- CLCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLOone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -63%
- NHNEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $5k
- PIPACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH BOARDone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…
The Filipino American Educators of Washington (FAEW) is a professional organization of educators and those involved in education that promotes and advocates for the recruitment, growth, development, advancement, and contributions of…
Amplifying Somali Voices & Building Communities
Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.
We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.
Lao Community Service center's mission is to united the Lao Community in the Pacific Northwest. We assist the Lao Community with social, cultural, and educational services.
Community Services
In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…
Dynamic Salish language revitalization powering cultural renewal and building a stronger, healthier community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rvc Seattle and the most unlike its peers is Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 44 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 RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds DEAF SPOTLIGHT ↗
- Who funds Lao Senior Outreach ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DE SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds ALIMENTANDO AL PUEBLO ↗
- Who funds RADIO ENTHUSIASTS OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds IRAQI COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Na'ah Illahee Fund ↗
- Who funds COLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO ↗
- Who funds UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA ↗
- Who funds Pacific Islander Community Association of WA ↗
- Who funds CHILDSTRIVE ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SHUNPIKE ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE RHAPSODY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Women United ↗
- Who funds DRIVERS SOLIDARITY AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Brazil Center ↗
- Who funds SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds HMONG ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Scholar Fund ↗
- Who funds Southeast Seattle Education Coalition ↗
- Who funds TIBETAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHING ↗
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 · Inatai Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Artsfund · United Way of King County · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Brant Foundation · Front and Centered · The Bullitt Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm
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 Peoples Fund 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.