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Sinegal Family Foundation at a glance

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Sinegal Family 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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.8MHealth$2.1MEducation$1.9MReligion$1.3MPublic Benefit$560kInternational$428kCivil Rights$300kHuman Services$270kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $222k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$75,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Costco Stock.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of King County$500,000
Save the Children$200,000
Friends of Costco Guild - Children's Hospital$200,000
Heritage University$200,000
Rwanda Girls Initiative$152,580
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY$125,000
San Diego City College$100,000
Brotherhood$100,000
Northwest Harvest$100,000
University of Notre Dame$100,000
ACLU$100,000
Individual grant recipient$90,000
Fred Hutch Cancer Center$75,000
Breaking Boundaries$50,000
Carroll College$50,000
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 (FY20–25, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%StolenYouth: $10k → 9%HOPELINK: $100k → 9%Rwanda Girls Initiative: $153k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
NY
IN
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
GA
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 15 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
21

Total granted

$6.8M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+30%

Still filing today

60%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $839k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • SU
    SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2025 · $635k · revenue +47%
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $450k · revenue +110%
  • HU
    HERITAGE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2025 · $343k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SU
    SEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • SC
    Seattle Children's Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $750k · revenue +49%
  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +49%
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
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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2
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
5
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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6
Seattle Pacific University

Seattle pacific university is a christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

Education
7
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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8
University of Portland

The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…

Education
9
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
12
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment

We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. 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

29 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. 29 of the 52 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $1,000,000 · OtherSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSIONSeattle Children's Foundation: $750,000 · OtherSeattle Children's FoundationSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $635,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYFriends of Costco Guild - Children's Hospital: $500,000 · OtherFriends of Costco Guild - Children's HospitalUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONCristo Rey Jesuit: $296,800 · OtherCristo Rey JesuitIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherBrotherhood: $200,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · OtherFARESTART: $200,000 · Other+18 more: $946,600 · Other+18 moreUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $3,600,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $60,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $450,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $225,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $35,000 · HealthHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $343,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $150,000 · EducationCARROLL COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationCollege Success Foundation: $25,000 · Education+3 more: $25,000 · EducationTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRwanda Girls Initiative: $152,580 · Human ServicesHOPELINK: $100,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $65,000 · Human ServicesEverstrong Prevention: $20,000 · Human ServicesSave The Children Federation Inc: $225,000 · International
Other$5,328,400Philanthropy$3,810,000Health$760,000Education$593,000Arts & Culture$560,000Human Services$337,580International$225,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $3,600,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $750,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $635,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $450,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $343,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART: $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative: $152,580 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPELINK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYONE FOR VETERANS: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEverstrong Prevention: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST THOMAS SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds FARESTART ↗
  • Who funds Rwanda Girls Initiative ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPELINK ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EVERYONE FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
  • 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.

Seattle FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Bny Mellon Charitable…Morgan Stanley Global…Credit Unions in the …The Norcliffe Foundat…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
Seattle FoundationWA20.8× affinity8 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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Sinegal Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sinegal Family 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 52 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home