· Private foundation
Seattle-Sonoran Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $160k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EWU FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FDN | $15,000 |
| SCHOOL ON WHEELS | $12,500 |
| ALEXANDRIA HOUSE | $12,500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON JUNIOR GOLF ASSN | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| FRESHWATER TRUST | $10,000 |
| OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| KID WORKS | $10,000 |
| HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET S | $10,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- SCSeattle Children's Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +190%
- EWEastern Washington University Foundation3× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +36%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- GCGREEN CORPS INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -1%
- JCJD CLINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CLCasa Latina Foundationone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.
The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Tomorrow and the most unlike its peers is Cascadia Art Museum. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 126 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 Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREEN CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORER WEST AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds Washington Junior Golf Association ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds NAMI Seattle ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds THE FRESHWATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds Earthcorps ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds PRICELESS PUPPY RESCUE CORP ↗
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 · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Gates Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Medina Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lucky Seven 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-Sonoran 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.
- The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.