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SITY 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.

$394k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$390,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$792k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations SITY Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$394k33%
FY202411$169k27%
FY202316$74k25%
FY202217$80k41%
FY202110$60k30%
FY202014$55k57%
FY20198$42k75%
FY20185$32k60%
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$749kEducation$567kHealth$69kYouth Development$41kPhilanthropy$15kEnvironment$12kHuman Services$6kAnimals$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
OR
IA
IN
PA
CA
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northwest Film Forum$390,000133%
Siff$250,00081%
Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$40,00030%
Bertschi School$36,50020%
Friends of Kexp$35,54660%
Black Fret Dba Sonic Guild$32,50060%
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences$28,00050%
Langston$22,50031%
The Prodigy Project$16,00015%
Pablove Foundation Inc$15,00030%
Show all 38 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

SITY Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwest Film Forum: $390,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSiff: $250,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetRogers Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBertschi School: $36,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Kexp: $35,546 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Fret Dba Sonic Guild: $32,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLangston: $22,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Prodigy Project: $16,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPablove Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout: $12,546 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetUnited Way of King County: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave Lake Kachess: $10,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetFilm Independent: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vera Project: $7,046 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYouth Fx Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNational Blood Clot Alliance: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTreehouse: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Science Center Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCascades Carnivore Project: $4,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFood Lifeline: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDisability Rights Washington: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Musicians Access to Sustainable Healthcare: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMusicares Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Nations Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Nw: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Trails Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRain City Rock Camp for Girls: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYouth in Focus: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProject Renewal of Davenport: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMary's Place Seattle: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMotley Zoo Animal Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThree Dollar Bill Cinema: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFarestart: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Preparatory Academy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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 FoundationWA29.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Artsfund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Leslie Fund Inc · Islands Fund · Vitalogy Foundation · Grousemont 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.

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How do I get to SITY Foundation?

Find your warmest path to SITY 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.

About SITY Foundation

How much does SITY Foundation give?
SITY Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $393,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does SITY Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Education (38%), Health (5%).
Who are SITY Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northwest Film Forum ($390k), Siff ($250k), Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ($40k).
Does SITY Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does SITY Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as SITY Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Artsfund, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
Where is SITY Foundation based?
SITY Foundation is based in DE.

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 41 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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