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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.

$485k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$176kEnvironment$167kYouth Development$163kArts & Culture$118kFood & Nutrition$117kHealth$101kEmployment$71kHousing & Shelter$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $240k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%METHOW AT HOME: $13k → 17%BYRD BARR PLACE: $15k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $15k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $42k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $15k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$954k · 13 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
1

Total granted

$954k
$5k

Still filing today

85%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentScience & TechHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • EA
    EASTSIDE ACADEMY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $151k · revenue +8%
  • SE
    Sound Experience
    4× · 2021–2025 · $118k · revenue +51%
  • NC
    North Cascades Institute
    6× · 2019–2025 · $107k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDRENS STANLEY STAMM
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Re Sources

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.

Environment
2
We Heart Seattle

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…

Community Improvement
3
Futurewise

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.

Environment
4
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
5
Discover Your Northwest

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
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
7
Washingtonians for Public Banking

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…

Community Improvement
8
Methow Valley Trails Collaborative

Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.

Environment
9
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
10
Washington School-Based Health Alliance

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.

Health
11
Bremerton Foodline

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.

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12
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Byrd Barr Place; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTSIDE ACADEMY: $151,000 · EducationEASTSIDE ACADEMYPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $72,000 · EducationPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGMRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $71,000 · EducationRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONPOST: $60,000 · EducationPOSTWest Seattle Helpline: $71,000 · OtherWest Seattle HelplineMethow Valley Education Foundation: $54,000 · OtherMethow Valley Educati…GREEN RIVER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING: $50,000 · OtherGREEN RIVER COLLEGE O…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherSound Experience: $118,000 · Science & TechSound Experi…North Cascades Institute: $107,000 · EnvironmentNorth Casca…CRISIS CONNECTIONS: $101,000 · HealthCRISIS CON…UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $57,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY…BYRD BARR PLACE: $30,000 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR …Methow At Home: $13,000 · Human ServicesMethow At …West Seattle Food Bank: $60,000 · Food & NutritionCAMP TEN TREES: $12,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$354,000Other$200,000Science & Tech$118,000Environment$107,000Health$101,000Human Services$100,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Recreation & Sports$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEASTSIDE ACADEMY: $151,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetSound Experience: $118,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute: $107,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTIONS: $101,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $72,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $71,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetWest Seattle Helpline: $71,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPOST: $60,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $57,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMethow Valley Education Foundation: $54,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetBYRD BARR PLACE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMethow At Home: $13,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCAMP TEN TREES: $12,000 over 2y, 7.6% 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 FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…United Way of King Co…Swedish Health Servic…Dv & Ida McEachern Ch…Food LifelineMedina FoundationLucky Seven FoundationMcKinstry Charitable …
Seattle FoundationWA22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sharing Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharing Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sharing Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sharing 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 18 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-PF 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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