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Sharing Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUND EXPERIENCE | $66,000 |
| EASTSIDE ACADEMY | $62,000 |
| POST 84 | $60,000 |
| PAGE AHEAD CHILDREN'S LITERACY PROGRAM | $52,000 |
| UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK | $42,000 |
| WEST SEATTLE HELPLINE | $41,000 |
| METHOW VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CRISIS CONNECTIONS | $36,000 |
| NORTH CASCADES INSTITUTE | $32,000 |
| RENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $21,000 |
| METHOW AT HOME | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY23–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- EAEASTSIDE ACADEMY6× · 2019–2025 · $151k · revenue +8%
- SESound Experience4× · 2021–2025 · $118k · revenue +51%
- NCNorth Cascades Institute6× · 2019–2025 · $107k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SCSEATTLE CHILDRENS STANLEY STAMMone grant, 2019 · $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.
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
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…
Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…
Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
Advance and advocate for school-based health care, working with communities and partners to achieve equity in health and educational opportunity for children and youth statewide.
Our mission is to provide food and referral services at no cost in a caring and respectful manner to those in need. We strive to eliminate hunger and restore the quality of life in our clients.
Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Byrd Barr Place and the most unlike its peers is Camp Ten Trees. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 EASTSIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Sound Experience ↗
- Who funds North Cascades Institute ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds RENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Helpline ↗
- Who funds POST ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Methow Valley Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
- Who funds Methow At Home ↗
- Who funds CAMP TEN TREES ↗
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 · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way of King County · Swedish Health Services · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Food Lifeline · Medina Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · McKinstry Charitable 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 Sharing 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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