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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$390k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$749kEducation$567kHealth$69kYouth Development$41kPhilanthropy$15kEnvironment$12kHuman Services$6kAnimals$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $250k+1 grant · $390k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$792k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM$390,000
BLACK FRET SONIC GUILD$2,500
CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT INC: $2k → 12%DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $3k → 9%DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$526k · 20 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
18

Total granted

$526k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+0%

Still filing today

95%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k 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
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SIFF
    8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +37%
  • BS
    BERTSCHI SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2019 · $37k · revenue +72%
  • BF
    BLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILD
    6× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PRODIGY PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue 0%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -30%
  • YF
    YOUTH FX INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
2
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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4
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
5
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.

Arts & Culture
6
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
7
Seattle JazzED

Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.

Arts & Culture
8
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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9
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
10
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.

—
11
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.

Community Improvement
12
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio

Kuow/puget sound public radio is a nonprofit organization which operates three radio stations to provide news, information, and cultural programs to the greater seattle area. our mission is to create and serve a more informed public.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whatcom Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Save Lake Kachess. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr13%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr11%61%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
15%
11,186/75,516

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
24/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac — $500,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacBERTSCHI SCHOOL — $36,500 · EducationBERTSCHI SCHOOLTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $28,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $390,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUMBLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILD — $32,500 · Arts & CultureBLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILDLANGSTON — $22,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $34,046 · Arts & Culture+7 moreSIFF — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIFFFRIENDS OF KEXP — $35,546 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF KEXPTHE PRODIGY PROJECT — $16,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · HealthNATIONAL BLOOD CLOT ALLIANCE — $6,000 · HealthSEATTLE MUSICIANS ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE — $3,000 · HealthPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $10,000 · PhilanthropyWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyThe Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout — $12,546 · OtherSeattle Children's Foundation — $2,500 · OtherCHARLIE WELLMAN MEMORIAL FUND INC — $2,000 · OtherWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $2,000 · OtherCHARLIE WELLMAN MEMORIAL FUND INC — $2,000 · OtherDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON — $3,500 · OtherPROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT — $1,500 · OtherMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $1,500 · OtherCASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT — $4,500 · OtherFOOD LIFELINE — $4,000 · OtherUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Other+3 more — $2,000 · OtherSave Lake Kachess — $10,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION NW — $2,000 · Environment
Education$565,000Arts & Culture$479,046Youth Development$309,046Health$49,000Philanthropy$30,000Other$40,546Environment$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationArtsfundPuget Sound Energy Fo…Lucky Seven FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The Norcliffe Foundat…Credit Unions in the …M J Murdock Charitabl…Leslie Fund IncIslands FundVitalogy FoundationGrousemont Foundation
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

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 SITY 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Cascades Carnivore Project — 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines