· Private foundation
Shrontz Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Shrontz Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Shrontz Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $90k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREEHOUSE | $30,000 |
| TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MOUNT BAKER COMMUNITY CLUB | $15,000 |
| OPERATION NIGHTWATCH | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| STORYTELLER CHILDREN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| GLEN WORLD | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTREEHOUSE6× · 2017–2022 · $113k · revenue +172%
- SCSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +72%
- TBTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- IINVESTEDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +50%
- ESEASTER SEALS OF WAone grant, 2019 · $5k
- SOSCHOOL ON WHEELS INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +2%
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.
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.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
We empower Washington youth leaders to create sustainable, positive change through advocacy, youth voter turnout, and leadership development programs.
Family law casa is committed to positive long-term outcomes for children, families, and communities navigating economic injustice across king county. we advance intersectional equity by providing free advocacy services for children…
Friends of the children - seattle has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. youth in the friends…
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
The mission of oich is to prepare children for kindergarten and lifeby providing dynamic play-based curriculum in an inclusive environment
Childrens day care center
Support people with disabilities and low incomes to realize their purpose, potential and strength.
To provide a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities
Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.
American youthworks (ayw) annually provides 400+ young adults with training and resources to build careers and strengthen their communities through education, paid career training, and national service. ayw programs prepare participants…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE MT BAKER COMMUNITY CLUB ↗
- Who funds INVESTED ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shrontz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shrontz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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