· Public charity
Seattle Storm Foundation
Our mission is to offer charitable and educational opportunities to youth in the pacific northwest, as well as support the bipoc community and initiatives through the platform of professional basketball.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $272,117 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $286,137 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,020 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER | $51,600 |
| COMMON POWER FUTURE | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE FOUNDATION | $29,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $25,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WA | $20,000 |
| TREEHOUSE | $15,000 |
| YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED | $15,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE | $15,000 |
| TECHBRIDGE GIRLS | $15,000 |
| NARAL PRO-CHOICE WA FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| RAVE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RAINIER BEACH PTSA | $7,900 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,617 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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 +64% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
- CPCOMMON POWER FUTURE3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +132%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE2× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +143%
- LLLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +20%
Funded once
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -61%- UUUPTOWN URBAN ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -77%
- WTWA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +13%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Uptown Urban Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 19 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 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON POWER FUTURE ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Rave Foundation ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN URBAN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Techbridge Girls ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds Pro-Choice Washington Foundation ↗
- Who funds WA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE RESIDENCY ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
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 Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Alaska Airlines Foundation · School's Out Washington · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Storm 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.
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.
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