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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.

$202k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$135kPublic Benefit$100kCivil Rights$78kHealth$76kCommunity Improvement$75kCrime & Legal$35kYouth Development$35kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$280k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE CENTER FOUNDATION$95,000
WOMEN LEADERS IN SPORTS$25,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE$14,000
LAVENDER RIGHTS PROJECT$10,000
PROJECT GIRL$10,000
MAHONEY PROFESSIONAL NURSES ASSOC$10,000
RAVE FOUNDATION$10,000
TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION$5,000
KING COUNTY PLAY EQUITY COALITION$5,000
YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED$5,000
AGAPE FOUNDATION$5,000
KD HALL$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AGAPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%TECHBRIDGE GIRLS: $15k → 10%NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: $25k → 17%United Negro College Fund Inc: $1k → 14%WOMEN LEADERS IN SPORTS: $25k → 15%SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER: $52k → 9%PROJECT GIRL: $10k → 9%TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc: $30k → 17%Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle: $45k → 9%Lambda Legal Defense and education fund inc: $10k → 17%URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $15k → 9%URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $14k → 9%MAHONEY PROFESSIONAL NURSES ASSOC: $10k → 9%Seattle Foundation: $55k → 9%LAVENDER RIGHTS PROJECT: $10k → 9%NARAL PRO-CHOICE WA FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%TREEHOUSE: $15k → 9%YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $15k → 9%GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WA: $20k → 9%RAVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WA Therapy Fund Foundation: $11k → 9%Seattle Foundation: $51k → 9%SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $29k → 9%SEATTLE CENTER FOUNDATION: $95k → 9%Rave Foundation: $10k → 9%COMMON POWER FUTURE: $50k → 9%Uptown Urban Alliance: $15k → 9%Rave Foundation: $10k → 9%Common Power: $25k → 9%The Residency: $5k → 9%RAINIER BEACH PTSA: $8k → 9%RAVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%Common Power: $25k → 9%KING COUNTY PLAY EQUITY COALITION: $5k → 9%YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $5k → 9%KD HALL: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$309k · 6 repeat orgs$355k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$309k
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
0%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentCivil RightsEducationRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CP
    COMMON POWER FUTURE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +132%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE
    3× · 2021–2025 · $74k · revenue +143%
  • LL
    LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $52k · revenue 0%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -61%
  • GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -4%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
2
The Foundation for Gender Equality
Philanthropy
3
Justice for Girls Coalition of Washington State

Our mission is to help washington state girls* in adverse situations thrive and have meaningful futures. *girls refers to gender expansive youth (cis girls, trans girls, non-binary youth, gender non-conforming youth, gender queer youth and…

Human Services
4
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

—
5
Girls in Stem
Human Services
6
Ms Jd

Ms. JD is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the success of aspiring and early career women lawyers. Ms. JD is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of practicing attorneys and community leaders and supported…

Civil Rights
7
Legal Voice

Legal voice was founded on the belief that all women, girls, and lgbtq+ people should be able to live their lives with dignity, safety, and autonomy. we advance justice and build community power by using multiple strategies: litigation,…

Crime & Legal
8
WOMEN4PROGRESS (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress)
Philanthropy
9
The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania

The Women and Girls Foundation (WGF) is a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania engaged in statewide programming and policy work. The mission of WGF is to achieve equality for women and girls, now and for generations to…

Civil Rights
10
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

—
11
Gender Justice League

Gender Justice League's mission is to empower all people to eliminate discrimination and prejudice based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation in Washington State, and to ensure that trans and gender diverse…

Civil Rights
12
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Agape 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMON POWER FUTURE: $100,000 · Civil RightsCOMMON POWER FUTURELAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,400 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & ED…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDU…Pro-Choice Washington Foundation: $13,000 · Civil RightsPro-Choice Washington Fou…SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $134,859 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATIONSeattle Center Foundation: $95,000 · Arts & CultureSeattle Center…THE RESIDENCY: $5,150 · Arts & CultureURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $74,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLIT…RAINIER BEACH HIGH SCHOOL PARENT - TEACHER - STUDENT ASSOCIATION: $7,900 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $35,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY S…Lavender Rights Project: $10,000 · OtherTechbridge Girls: $15,000 · OtherTechbridge GirlsMary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization: $10,000 · OtherUPTOWN URBAN ALLIANCE: $15,000 · OtherUPTOWN URBAN ALLIANCE+5 more: $21,617 · Other+5 moreGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOU…YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOM…TREEHOUSE: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSEPROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT G…King County Play Equity Coalition: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentKing Coun…Rave Foundation: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsRave Foun…WOMEN LEADERS IN SPORTS: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsWOMEN LEA…SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $51,600 · HealthWA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Health
Civil Rights$178,400Philanthropy$134,859Arts & Culture$100,150Other$188,517Youth Development$70,000Recreation & Sports$65,000Health$62,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $134,859 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON POWER FUTURE: $100,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSeattle Center Foundation: $95,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $74,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $51,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRave Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTechbridge Girls: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPTOWN URBAN ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPro-Choice Washington Foundation: $13,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $5,617 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESIDENCY: $5,150 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAGAPE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKing County Play Equity Coalition: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…The Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Alaska Airlines Found…School's Out Washingt…The Pfizer Foundation…Enterprise Holdings F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…
Seattle FoundationWA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Seattle Storm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seattle Storm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Seattle Storm Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Seattle Storm Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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