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Social Venture Partners

Svp seeks to foster a philanthropic and nonprofit sector that has the strength and resources to address systemic issues related to racial equity in svp core issue areas by building a community of engaged and educated philanthropists who understand their role in creating an equitable community, helping them make the greatest impact with…

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.3MHuman Services$476kEducation$452kEnvironment$365kYouth Development$286kPhilanthropy$239kRecreation & Sports$208kHousing & Shelter$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $150,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $156,400 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,400 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$577k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
350 SEATTLE$30,000
WASHINGTON YOUTH ALLIANCE$25,000
CHOOSE 180$20,000
LOOKS LISTEN & LEARN LLC$15,000
SUSTAINABLE SEATTLE$10,000
DIGNITY FOR DIVAS$10,000
EARTHGEN$10,000
REFUGEE ARTISAN INITIATIVE$10,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER KING COUNTY$10,000
SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $608k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Nuestra Casa: $30k → 11%La Casa Hogar: $25k → 17%La Casa Hogar: $10k → 17%Ttawaxt Birth Justice Center: $25k → 17%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 9%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $31k → 9%Dignity for Divas: $10k → 9%Southwest Youth & Family Serv: $10k → 9%OPEN ARMS: $40k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $31k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $30k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $20k → 9%South King Cnty Food Coalit: $8k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $31k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $31k → 9%Childrens Alliance: $30k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $31k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $30k → 9%East African Comm Services: $30k → 9%Childrens Alliance: $30k → 9%VIETNAMESE FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION: $15k → 9%East African Comm Services: $10k → 9%DIGNITY FOR DIVAS: $10k → 9%Childrens Alliance: $10k → 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 31 repeat orgs$913k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
36

Total granted

$2.9M
$848k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+44%

Still filing today

94%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • NA
    NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON
    4× · 2017–2020 · $514k · revenue +49%
  • 5C
    501 Commons
    4× · 2017–2020 · $445k · revenue +566%
  • RVC SEATTLE
    6× · 2018–2023 · $242k · revenue +459%

Funded once

  • SP
    SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $208k · revenue +49%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -72% · 36% of their budget
  • TC
    TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +126%
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
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
2
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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3
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
4
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
5
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
6
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
7
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

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8
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
9
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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12
Pro-Choice Washington

To protect and promote every persons right to access the full range of reproductive healthcare choices in Washington State, including safe and legal abortion, through education, advocacy, lobbying and coalition-building

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yakima Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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

69 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. 69 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/69
Grantees still filing
44/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: $513,600 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON501 Commons: $445,000 · Community Improvement501 CommonsRVC SEATTLE: $242,000 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLETRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION: $45,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $76,000 · Community Improvement+4 moreCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $132,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ALLIAN…East African Community Services: $106,000 · Human ServicesEast African Comm…Southwest Youth And Family Services: $86,000 · Human ServicesSouthwest Youth A…Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $80,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community …OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $71,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS PERINAT…LA CASA HOGAR: $35,000 · Human ServicesLA CASA HOGARNuestra CASA: $30,000 · Human ServicesTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $42,750 · Human Services+3 moreUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION: $111,000 · OtherUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TR…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SEATTLE: $85,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS O…PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $47,500 · OtherPHILANTHROPY NORTHWESTSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $34,500 · OtherSomali Youth & Family Club: $30,000 · OtherLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV: $60,000 · OtherLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TVSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherONEAMERICA: $37,500 · OtherPUGET SOUND SAGE: $40,000 · Other+27 more: $332,520 · Other+27 moreEarthGen Fka WA Green Schools: $142,000 · EnvironmentEarthGen Fk…FUTUREWISE: $106,000 · EnvironmentFUTUREWISESPARK NORTHWEST: $78,500 · EnvironmentSPARK NORTH…350 Seattle: $50,000 · Environment350 SeattleENVIRONMENTAL COALITION OF SOUTH SEATTLE: $22,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT…+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: $100,000 · EducationSoutheast Seattle Education Coalition: $43,500 · EducationEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION: $36,000 · EducationSTEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK: $30,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS: $30,000 · EducationEASTSIDE PATHWAYS: $25,000 · EducationYoga Behind Bars: $15,500 · EducationSOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $7,500 · EducationSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $208,425 · Recreation & SportsCHOOSE 180: $96,500 · Youth DevelopmentBELONG Partners: $86,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON YOUTH ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$1,321,600Human Services$607,750Other$838,020Environment$409,000Education$297,500Recreation & Sports$208,425Youth Development$207,500

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 budgetNONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: $513,600 over 4y, 9.4% of budget501 Commons: $445,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetRVC SEATTLE: $242,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $208,425 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetEarthGen Fka WA Green Schools: $142,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $132,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION: $111,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFUTUREWISE: $106,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetEast African Community Services: $106,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: $100,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetCHOOSE 180: $96,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBELONG Partners: $86,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSouthwest Youth And Family Services: $86,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SEATTLE: $85,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $80,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSPARK NORTHWEST: $78,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $71,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV: $60,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budget350 Seattle: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $47,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION: $45,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSoutheast Seattle Education Coalition: $43,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $40,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetONEAMERICA: $37,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION: $36,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLA CASA HOGAR: $35,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $34,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNuestra CASA: $30,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSomali Youth & Family Club: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSTEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK: $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTeamChild: $26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetEASTSIDE PATHWAYS: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYAKIMA MUSIC EN ACCION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBOARDSOURCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL COALITION OF SOUTH SEATTLE: $22,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEATTLE AGAINST SLAVERY: $20,250 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDIGNITY FOR DIVAS: $20,250 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetSOUTH SEATTLE WOMENS HEALTH FOUNDAT: $20,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetCENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNLOOP: $18,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetURBAN DEATH PROJECT: $16,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetYoga Behind Bars: $15,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKANDELIA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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 FoundationGates FoundationStolte Family Foundat…The Satterberg Founda…United Way of King Co…School's Out Washingt…Inatai FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestThe Norcliffe Foundat…Medina FoundationRaikes FoundationPerigee Fund
Seattle FoundationWA71.1× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · United Way of King County · School's Out Washington · Inatai Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Perigee Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 75 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 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