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SEATTLE TIMES FUND FOR THE NEEDY
The primary purpose of the SEATTLE TIMES FUND FOR THE NEEDY is to distribute funds to organizations, exempt under section 501 (c) (3) of the internal revenue code, for the organizations' use in aiding needy families and/or individuals who are members of the seattle community.
$2.8M
Granted FY2023
15
Grants
1
Communities
$526k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of SEATTLE TIMES FUND FOR THE NEEDY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2023 · 15 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$100,395
Median grant
1
States reached
$149k
Total assets
Largest grants
- SOUND GENERATIONS$526,460
- THE SALVATION ARMY$439,850
- CHILDHAVEN$361,825
- BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF KING COUNTY$223,340
- TREEHOUSE$209,400
- HOPELINK$194,705
- WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES$157,525
- ATLANTIC STREET CENTER$100,395
- ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE$94,050
- KINDERING CENTER$94,050
- KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$94,050
- YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES$94,050
- LIFEWIRE$90,530
- YWCA OF SEATTLE$70,205
- SEATTLEKING COUNTY COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS$70,205
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.8M · 15 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
0
Total granted
$9.8M
$0
Still filing today
93%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthOther
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
- SGSound Generations3× · 2021–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +88%
- CChildhaven3× · 2021–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
- BBBig Brothers and Big Sisters of King County3× · 2021–2023 · $801k · revenue +46%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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.
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Friends of the Children - Seattle
Friends of the children is a youth development program breaking the cycle of poverty and violence, preventing school dropout, teen parenting, and criminal activity - by selecting youth facing the toughest challenges, and making a…
Youth Development
2
King County Sexual Assault Resource
Non-profit organization providing sexual assault related services for people of King County.
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3
Seattle Children's Healthcare System
The provision of quality health care services to infants, children and adolescents.
Health
4
Family Solutions Inc
Family solutions is a community based, comprehensive behavioral health provider cultivating the wellness of southwest washington by offering hope and health to children, youth and families.
Health
5
Nexus Youth and Families
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults, and families.
Human Services
6
Sound
Sound provides a broad array of behavioral health services to the king county community.
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7
Youthlink
To support and empower young people on their journey to self-reliance.
Human Services
8
Family Law Casa of King County
Advocating for children for a safe and secure home life.
Human Services
9
Eastside Pathways
Transforming the way our community stakeholders work together, harnessing and aligning our individual and collective experience, to positively impact the lives of children and youth; intergenerationaly. we mobilize individuals and public,…
Education
10
Kitsap Mental Health Services
Kitsap Mental Health Services is a community mental health center that provides recovery-focused, comprehensive mental and behavioral health care services to children,
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11
Building Changes
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, focusing on children, youth, and families. through grantmaking, capacity building, research, and advocacy, the organization works across housing, education,…
Health
12
Lifeworks Services Inc
Lifeworks partners with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Treehouse. 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
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$4,362,654Other$4,015,180Youth Development$751,250Crime & Legal$360,195Health$337,580
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 Sound Generations ↗
- Who funds Childhaven ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers and Big Sisters of King County ↗
- Who funds Treehouse ↗
- Who funds Hopelink ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Family Services ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
- Who funds Asian Counseling and Referral Service ↗
- Who funds Kindering Center ↗
- Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds Kent Youth and Family Services ↗
- Who funds LifeWire ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Seattle ↗
- Who funds Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness ↗
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 FoundationWA24.9× affinity10 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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Joshua Green Foundation Inc · Medina Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Kidvantage · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · NW Childrens Foundation · Windermere Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · School's Out Washington
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 organisation SEATTLE TIMES FUND FOR THE NEEDY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 821831734 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Seattle Times Fund for the Needy?
Find your warmest path to Seattle Times Fund for the Needy through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines